The Old Testament Hebrew Scriptures in Five Minutes - Philippe Guillaume
78. What Is Ideological Criticism of the Hebrew Bible?
The Old Testament Hebrew Scriptures in Five Minutes - Philippe Guillaume
Patton Taylor [+]
Patton Taylor holds a Doctorate (PhD) from the University of Sheffield (UK). He has published Knowing God’s Ways: a User’s Guide to the Old Testament (Bletchley, UK: Scripture Union, 1991) and “Esther, Ideological Criticism, and the Theology of Liberation,” Irish Biblical Studies 29 (2011): 100–15.
Description
Bible readers typically find themselves succumbing to the ideology of the text. Ideological criticism searches for cracks and fissures in the text, revealed by weaknesses in the argument, inconsistencies and contradictions, that can pinpoint glimpses of a silenced counter-ideology and of later additions.