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Social-scientific ways of knowing, thinking and being are inescapable; in the contemporary world a social-scientific perspective seems less an option than an unavoidable constituent of the public and private imagination. The social sciences play a central role in the self-understandings of contemporary societies and in the lives of their citizens.

This book brings together new essays that reflect on the current state of social-scientific and cultural studies approaches in biblical studies, critically review the theoretical and methodological issues and explore the value of these approaches through a number of fresh substantive applications.

The book includes five sections: (1) Methods, Perspectives and Theory, (2) Studies in the Sociology of Deviance, (3) Social Psychology and Trauma Theory, (4) Cultural Studies, the Social Sciences and the Hebrew Bible, and (5) Anthropology and Archaeology.

This is the first volume in the series The Bible and Social Science.

David J. Chalcraft is Professor of Sociology and Subject Leader Sociology at Liverpool John Moores University and was formerly Chair of Biblical Studies at the University of Sheffield.

Frauke Uhlenbruch is an editor in biblical studies at De Gruyter, Berlin.

Rebecca S. Watson is Research Associate at the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, St Edmund’s College, Cambridge.

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