Socio-rhetorical interpretation: Theoretical points of departure

Socio-rhetorical interpretation: Theoretical points of departure

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In the past two Stuffed Animal 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 Chips 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.