Part I. Essays toward relational form criticism
The meaning of 'cult' and the interpretation of the Old Testament
Form criticism and morphological method
Appropriate and not-so-appropriate ways of relating historical and functional methods : a draft
The idea of Sitz im Leben
Understanding communication
Principles for morphological criticism with special reference to letter form
The notion of 'aptness'
Form criticism : an introduction
Form criticism : Hebrew Bible
Toward form criticism as an explication of human life : divine speech as a form of self-transcendence
Part II. Interdisciplinary ideas of Sitz im Leben
Interdisciplinary movements
Gunkel's concept of Sitz im Leben in biblical studies
In Gunkel's cultural sphere : Simmel, Bally
Key English-language analyses of speech situations prior to 1960
The Bakhtin circle
Other East European and Marxist considerations of context
Wittgenstein
Other philosophers
Some twentieth-century theories of situation in rhetorical and literary theory
Situation in English-language sociology and psychology
Discourse analysis and sociolinguistics after 1950
Speech contexts in anthropology, especially folklore studies, after 1960
Developments in biblical form criticism after about 1965
Renewed concern with life situation in European Medieval studies
New attention to life situation in classics, especially after 1970
Assessment
Concluding reflections concerning relational form criticism
Part III. Appendix
Relational form in various disciplines
A common pattern
Mathematics, physics, biology
Anthropology
Sociology
Psychology
Lingustics
Rhetoric, or discourse analysis
Literary criticism
Historiography
Theology and the study of religion
Conclusion.
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The changing shape of form criticism : a relational approach by Martin J. Buss. ISBN 9781906055547. Published by Sheffield Phoenix Press in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
