Social Scientific studies of the Greco-Roman world
Studies using various models from sociology and social-anthropology
- DeSilva, Honor and Shame
Honor and Shame. Connecting Personhood to Group Values (chapter from a book on Honor, Patronage, kinship and purity) - Gosnell, Honor and Shame Rhetoric as a Unifying Motif in Ephesians
Art. from Bulletin for Biblical Research 16.1 (2006) 105–128. - Greco-Roman Studies and the Social-Scientific Study of the Bible
Hanson, K.C., Greco-Roman Studies and the Social-Scientific Study of the Bible: A Classified Periodical Bibliography (1970—1994) - Hanson, How Honorable! How Shameful! A Cultural Analysis of Matthew's Makarisms and Reproaches
Web article by KC Hanson - Hanson, Ritual and Ceremony…A Select Classified Bibliography (1970–1998)
Ritual and Ceremony in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East: A Select Classified Bibliography (1970–1998) - Meals, Food and Table Fellowship
A Reader’s Guide to Meals, Food and Table Fellowship in the New Testament , by Jerome H. Neyrey - Palestine in the Time of Jesus
The materials on this site are intended to accompany and enhance the discussion of the boook Palestine in the Time of Jesus, published by K. C. Hanson and Douglas E. Oakman in 2008.. - Social Scientific Interpretation of The New Testament
An extensive and well organized Bibliography - Socio-Rhetorical Interpretation
An informative site, including Dictionary, articles and more - Socio-Rhetorical Interpretation Essays
Published Essays 1973—2012 by Vernon K. Robbins (
Post-colonial New Testament Studies
- England, Postcolonial Anxieties And Biblical Criticism in (South) Africa
Article from Neotestamenica 43.1 (2009) 27-48 - Ezekiel and Empire Studies: Imperialism, Idolatry, and the Imago Dei from a Black Postcolonial Perspective
I will examine the narrative of Ezekiel through the lens of Franz Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth and within the context of theBabylonian empire. - Fitzgerald, Postcolonialism and the Gospel of Mark
A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. May 2011. - Gay, Authorithy And Submission In Some New Testament Letters: Postcolonial Feminist Reading
A Thesis Submitted to The University of Birmingham For the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (390pp) - Horrell, Between Conformity and Resistance: Beyond The Balch-Elliott Debate Towards a Postcolonial Reading of 1 Peter
Preliminary manuscript by David Horrell - Journal of Postcolonial Theory and Theology
Several articles on postcolonialism and the Bible available here - Kim, Rupturing the Empire: Reading the poor widow as a postcolonial female subject (Mark 12:41-44)
Kim, Rupturing the Empire – lectio difficilior 1/2006 – http://www.lectio.unibe.ch - Lau, Back under Authority. Towards an Evangelical Postcolonial Hermeneutic
Copy of an article from Tyndale Bulletin 2012 - Lee, Toward Liberating Interdependence: A Postcolonial Intercultural Pedagogy
Article by Boyung Lee Associate Professor of Educational Ministries Pacific School of Religion and the Graduate Theological Union Berkeley, - M.W.Dube, The Scramble for Africa as the Biblical Scramble for Africa: Postcolonial Perspectives
scroll down some pages, to read the article. - Munoz-Larrondo, Living in two worlds- A Postcolonial Reading of the Acts of the Apostles
A dissertation submitted to Vanderbilt University 2008. - Paul and postcolonial hermeneutics
The paper explores Paul’s engagement with the Scriptures of Israel from the point of view of (his sense of) marginality, which invites a postcolonial perspective on his hermeneutics - Paul and postcolonialism
A manuscript (Fortress) on paul and Postcolonialism. Several articles by various scholars - Punt, Empire as material setting and heuristic grid for New Testament interpretation:
Jeremy Punt, Empire as material setting and heuristic grid for New Testament interpretation: Comments on the value of postcolonial criticism, HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies 66(1), Art. #330, - Rahman , Qiyamah A., Postcolonial Feminist Theory and New Testament Biblical Interpretation
An article on Colossians 3 - Rukundwa & van Aarde, The formation of postcolonial theory
The purpose of this article is to outline certain options and struggles, which gave rise to postcolonial theory. - Rukundwa, Postcolonial theory as a hermeneutical tool for Biblical reading
Article from HTS 64(1) 2008. - Staley, Postcolonial Refelctions on Reading Luke – Acts from Cabo San Lucas and Other PLaces
from In Literary Encounters with the Reign of God. Edited by Sharon Ringe and Paul Kim. (Trinity Press International, 2003), 422-445 - The disease of postcolonial new testament studies and the hermeneutics of healing
The disease of postcolonial new testament studies and the hermeneutics of healing.(ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: Anti-Judaism and Postcolonial Biblical Interpretation)(Panel Discussion) Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion | March 22, 2004 | Levine, Amy-Jill - Tinsley, Towards a Re-reading of Colossians from an African-American Postcolonial perspective
by Annie Tinsley, A thesis submitted to The University of Birmingham for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (326 pages) - Waweru, Postcolonial and Contrapuntal Readings of Revelation 22:1-5
The task of this article is to offer a postcolonial reading of Revelation 22:1-5, using especially a contrapuntal approach. - West, Doing Postcolonial Biblical Interpretation @Home
DOING POSTCOLONIAL BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION @HOME: TEN YEARS OF (SOUTH) AFRICAN AMBIVALENCE, article from Neotestamenica 42.1 (2008) 147-164 - Yorke, Mission Matters in the New Testament: Some Postcolonial Probings from an Afrocentric Perspe
Paper delivered at SNTS Vienna, Austria August 4-8, 2009.
Links to archaeological studies and sources
- Ancient Civilizations
A lot of links to various sites and discoveries - Ancient Corinth
All (?) about archelogical and historic place of Ancient Corinth and Acrocorinthos - Ancient Journeys; a Festschrift
Ancient Journeys; a Festschrift in honor of Eugene Numa Lane - Biblical Archaeological Society
A kind of Blog from Biblical Archaeological Society - Biblical archaeology school
Article in Wikipedia, contains several links - Capharnaum
Capharnaum; the town of Jesus - Corinthian Matters
A Resource for the Study of the Corinthia, Greece - ETANA
A guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world. - Major Archaeological Finds relating to the New Testament
reproduced from page 1640 of the NIV Study Bible, © 1985 The Zondervan Corporation, - Pompei, a Virtual Tour
If you’re planning to visit Pompeii, perhaps this virtual tour will help prepare you for what you will experience there. - The Roman Baths
Terms, Relevant Links Elsewhere on the WWW, and Bibliography for Course Lectures on the Roman Baths
