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Narrative Criticism is a modern critical approach to Biblical reading. It treats the text as a whole, rather than in parts such as is common in the more historical critical approaches of the 18th c...

narrative Criticism

started by Schawn Kellogg on 17 Feb 10 no follow-up yet

Sterling, you are absolutely right. cultural memory theory is indebted to oral tradition studies and this is how cultural memory initially came to be applied to the biblical text as a means of und...

memory cultural bible summary

started by Michael Hemenway on 14 Feb 10 4 follow-ups, last by Michael Hemenway on 17 Feb 10

Schawn, Perhaps you could save yourself some work by simply bookmarking these websites (e.g. worldcat), rather than starting a topic and including the website in your topic. If you just browse to...

narrative stories story-telling

started by Schawn Kellogg on 11 Feb 10 1 follow-up, last by Michael Hemenway on 14 Feb 10

Sterling, I really appreciate your point of view and am grateful you are challenging us to examine these texts. You are not being adversarial at all; please continue to challenge our thinking. Mary

queer theory

started by traci_shahan on 15 Feb 10 17 follow-ups, last by Joe MacDonald on 19 Feb 10

I agree, Steve, which is why I asked the question about our understanding having a limit. I, too, believe we continue to learn through human-God interactions today. Martin Luther King Jr. is an exa...

canonical criticism

started by Marcus Carlson on 16 Feb 10 12 follow-ups, last by Carlene Hill on 22 Feb 10