This volume introduces the reader to the most important methods of biblical criticism. It serves as an indispensable handbook for the work of students approaching biblical studies for the first time and for the professional interpreter of scripture who wants to understand the latest currents in biblical... Foreword to the Revised Edition 1(4) Introduction 5(8) Contributors 13(4) Part One Traditional Methods of Biblical Criticism Reading the Bible Historically: The Historian's Approach 17(18) J. Maxwell Miller Source Criticism 35(23) Pauline A. Viviano Form Criticism 58(32) Marvin A. Sweeney Tradition-Historical Criticism 90(15) Robert A. Di Vito Redaction Criticism 105(20) Gail P. C. Streete Part Two Expanding the Tradition Social-Scientific Criticism 125(17) Dale B. Martin Canonical Criticism 142(14) Mary C. Callaway Rhetorical Criticism and Intertextuality 156(27) Patricia K. Tull Part Three Overturning the Tradition Structural Criticism 183(18) Daniel Patte Narrative Criticism 201(29) David M. Gunn Reader-Response Criticism 230(23) Edgar V. McKnight Poststructuralist Criticism 253(15) William A. Beardslee Reading the Bible Ideologically: Feminist Criticism 268(15) Danna Nolan Fewell Reading the Bible Ideologically: Socioeconomic Criticism 283 Fernando F. Segovia