“Let’s Take the Text Seriously”: The Protectionist Doxa of Mainstream New Testament Studies

Mainstream New Testament Studies is often a space of repeating, elaborating on, identifying with, or valorizing the voices of NT writings. These common features of NT Studies resemble what scholars in Religious Studies refer to as protectionism: the privileging of a source’s own claims to such an ex...

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Main Author: Young, Stephen L. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill [2019]
In: Method & theory in the study of religion
Year: 2019, Volume: 32, Issue: 4/5, Pages: 328-363
Further subjects:B Hellenistic Philosophy
B Judaism versus Hellenism
B Ethnicity
B Pierre Bourdieu
B Doxa
B protectionism
B New Testament Studies
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