T&T Clark Handbook to Social Identity in the New Testament

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This voluminous collection of 29 essays makes a valuable contribution to studies that take the increasingly popular social-scientific approach to New Testament interpretation. While several handbooks on this interpretive approach are available, this is the only collection entirely devoted to the study of social identity in the New Testament. As would be expected in a collection of this size, the essays vary in quality, ranging from superior ones that are well organized and researched, to those best characterized as jargon-filled mediocrity. Fortunately, the former significantly outnumber the latter. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-level undergraduates through researchers/faculty. - J. R. Asher, Georgetown College, CHOICE

The T&T Clark Handbook to Social Identity in the New Testament, edited by J. Brian Tucker and Coleman A. Baker, is a must-read in its field. I would certainly recommend it as a necessary or required text for both newcomers and experts in the field of social identity studies. Stephanie Lowery, Wheaton College, Wheaton Blog

This voluminous collection of 29 essays makes a valuable contribution to studies that take the increasingly popular social-scientific approach to New Testament interpretation. While several handbooks on this interpretive approach are available, this is the only collection entirely devoted to the study of social identity in the New Testament. As would be expected in a collection of this size, the essays vary in quality, ranging from superior ones that are well organized and researched, to those best characterized as jargon-filled mediocrity. Fortunately, the former significantly outnumber the latter. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-level undergraduates through researchers/faculty. J. R. Asher, Georgetown College, CHOICE

This massive and valuable resource (657 pages), containing essays by an international cast of scholars, focuses on the social identity approach to biblical interpretation. This approach considers how biblical texts both express and foster a group s particular social identity, i.e., the characteristic beliefs, values, and practices that distinguish them from other groups first inspired by biblical scholar Philip Esler, whose foundational essay on the subject is included at the beginning of the volume. - Bible Today

Every theological library should have this book. Wendell Willis, Abilene Christian University, USA, The Catholic Biblical Quarterly

This voluminous collection of 29 essays makes a valuable contribution to studies that take the increasingly popular social-scientific approach to New Testament interpretation. While several handbooks on this interpretive approach are available, this is the only collection entirely devoted to the study of social identity in the New Testament. As would be expected in a collection of this size, the essays vary in quality, ranging from superior ones that are well organized and researched, to those best characterized as jargon-filled mediocrity. Fortunately, the former significantly outnumber the latter. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-level undergraduates through researchers/faculty. J. R. Asher, Georgetown College, CHOICE

This massive and valuable resource (657 pages), containing essays by an international cast of scholars, focuses on the social identity approach to biblical interpretation. This approach considers how biblical texts both express and foster a group s particular social identity, i.e., the characteristic beliefs, values, and practices that distinguish them from other groups first inspired by biblical scholar Philip Esler, whose foundational essay on the subject is included at the beginning of the volume. - Bible Today

The T&T Clark Handbook to Social Identity in the New Testament, edited by J. Brian Tucker and Coleman A. Baker, is a must-read in its field. I would certainly recommend it as a necessary or required text for both newcomers and experts in the field of social identity studies. Stephanie Lowery, Wheaton College, Wheaton Blog

Every theological library should have this book. Wendell Willis, Abilene Christian University, USA, The Catholic Biblical Quarterly

This voluminous collection of 29 essays makes a valuable contribution to studies that take the increasingly popular social-scientific approach to New Testament interpretation. While several handbooks on this interpretive approach are available, this is the only collection entirely devoted to the study of social identity in the New Testament. As would be expected in a collection of this size, the essays vary in quality, ranging from superior ones that are well organized and researched, to those best characterized as jargon-filled mediocrity. Fortunately, the former significantly outnumber the latter. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-level undergraduates through researchers/faculty. J. R. Asher, Georgetown College, CHOICE

This massive and valuable resource (657 pages), containing essays by an international cast of scholars, focuses on the social identity approach to biblical interpretation. This approach considers how biblical texts both express and foster a group s particular social identity, i.e., the characteristic beliefs, values, and practices that distinguish them from other groups first inspired by biblical scholar Philip Esler, whose foundational essay on the subject is included at the beginning of the volume. -Bible Today

The T&T Clark Handbook to Social Identity in the New Testament, edited by J. Brian Tucker and Coleman A. Baker, is a must-read in its field. I would certainly recommend it as a necessary or required text for both newcomers and experts in the field of social identity studies. Stephanie Lowery, Wheaton College, Wheaton Blog

Every theological library should have this book. - Wendell Willis, Abilene Christian University, USA, The Catholic Biblical Quarterly

This voluminous collection of 29 essays makes a valuable contribution to studies that take the increasingly popular social-scientific approach to New Testament interpretation. While several handbooks on this interpretive approach are available, this is the only collection entirely devoted to the study of social identity in the New Testament. As would be expected in a collection of this size, the essays vary in quality, ranging from superior ones that are well organized and researched, to those best characterized as jargon-filled mediocrity. Fortunately, the former significantly outnumber the latter. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-level undergraduates through researchers/faculty. --J. R. Asher, Georgetown College, CHOICE

This massive and valuable resource (657 pages), containing essays by an international cast of scholars, focuses on the 'social identity' approach to biblical interpretation. This approach considers how biblical texts both express and foster a group's particular social identity, i.e., the characteristic beliefs, values, and practices that distinguish them from other groups ... first inspired by biblical scholar Philip Esler, whose foundational essay on the subject is included at the beginning of the volume. -Bible Today

The T&T Clark Handbook to Social Identity in the New Testament, edited by J. Brian Tucker and Coleman A. Baker, is a must-read in its field. I would certainly recommend it as a necessary or required text for both newcomers and experts in the field of social identity studies. --Stephanie Lowery, Wheaton College, Wheaton Blog

.. .an excellent introduction to SIT and SCT and the usefulness of each for assessing early Christian texts. Biblical scholars, graduate students, and undergraduates can all find material with which to work in this Handbook. - Biblical Theology Bulletin

Every theological library should have this book. - Wendell Willis, Abilene Christian University, USA, The Catholic Biblical Quarterly

This voluminous collection of 29 essays makes a valuable contribution to studies that take the increasingly popular social-scientific approach to New Testament interpretation. While several handbooks on this interpretive approach are available, this is the only collection entirely devoted to the study of social identity in the New Testament. As would be expected in a collection of this size, the essays vary in quality, ranging from superior ones that are well organized and researched, to those best characterized as jargon-filled mediocrity. Fortunately, the former significantly outnumber the latter. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-level undergraduates through researchers/faculty. --J. R. Asher, Georgetown College, CHOICE

This massive and valuable resource (657 pages), containing essays by an international cast of scholars, focuses on the 'social identity' approach to biblical interpretation. This approach considers how biblical texts both express and foster a group's particular social identity, i.e., the characteristic beliefs, values, and practices that distinguish them from other groups ... first inspired by biblical scholar Philip Esler, whose foundational essay on the subject is included at the beginning of the volume. -Bible Today

The T&T Clark Handbook to Social Identity in the New Testament, edited by J. Brian Tucker and Coleman A. Baker, is a must-read in its field. I would certainly recommend it as a necessary or required text for both newcomers and experts in the field of social identity studies. --Stephanie Lowery, Wheaton College, Wheaton Blog

J. Brian Tucker is Associate Professor of New Testament at Moody Theological Seminary, USA, and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Wales, Trinity Saint David, UK.

Coleman A. Baker is Program Manager at the Soul Repair Center, Brite Divinity School, USA, and Adjunct Professor of Religion at Texas Christian University, USA.