If I Forget You, Jerusalem! - Studies on the Old Testament - Niels Peter Lemche
19. The Relevance of Social-critical Exegesis for Old Testament Theology
If I Forget You, Jerusalem! - Studies on the Old Testament - Niels Peter Lemche
Niels Peter Lemche [+]
University of Copenhagen
Niels Peter Lemche, has been publishing in the field of Old Testament studies for fifty years. He has been both Assistant Professor at Aarhus University, Denmark, from 1978 to 1986 and Professor of Theology at the University of Copenhagen from 1987 to 2013. He is the founder of the Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament, and a member of the board of the Copenhagen International Seminar (Routledge). He has recently edited (in co-operation with Dr. Jim West) Jeremiah in History and Tradition (Routledge, 2019).
Description
Sociology in stricto sensu as it is understood today means the study of behavioral patterns in contemporary – mostly Western societies. In the Anglo-Saxon world the historical ramifications of sociology developed into social anthropology, cultural anthropology as well as processional anthropology – to limit the number to three branches – there are more. These different types of sociology imply different methods, and the sociological analyses also of biblical material is dependent of the type of sociology used by the researcher. The example presented is Rainer Albertz’s use of the concept of family religion.