Time, communion, and ancestry in African biblical interpretation: a contextual note on 1 Maccabees 2:49-70.
From: Biblical Theology Bulletin
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Date: 9/22/2002
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Author: Aguilar, Mario I.
Abstract
Because behaviors and values described in the Bible most often have no analogues among contemporary Euro-Americans, social scientific biblical interpretation uses appropriate, explicit models of behavior verifiable among contemporary peoples through which to process behavior described in biblical documents. While the process sounds anachronistic, models are judged as structurally appropriate when they accord with all relevant biblical data and thus generate new ...
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