Open AccessSocio-rhetorical interpretation: Theoretical points of departure
Author(s) -
Ernest van Eck
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
hts teologiese studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.282
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 2072-8050
pISSN - 0259-9422
DOI - 10.4102/hts.v57i1/2.1884
Subject(s) - interpretation (philosophy) , rhetorical question , narratology , rhetorical criticism , reading (process) , criticism , narrative , gospel , epistemology , literature , narrative criticism , sociology , linguistics , philosophy , narrative inquiry , art
In the past two decades, narrative criticism (narratology) and social-scientific criticism have come to the fore as the two most prominent new methodologies to be associated with gospel research. When these two methodologies are integrated in the reading of biblical texts, this is now referred to as "socio-rhetorical interpretation". This article departs from a specific understanding of what is meant by a narratological reading of a text on the one hand and, on the other hand, by a social-scientific interpretation of biblical texts, in order to propose a working definition of a socio-rhetorical analysis of texts