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Linguistic Anthropology studies how language [evolves and] affects social life. Biological or Physical Anthropology studies the biological development of humans.
This article reviews the development of the anthropology of Christianity and considers the new questions and approaches introduced by the articles in this special issue of Current Anthropology.
Biblical anthropology: the Biblical Study of Man Anthropology is composed of four specialized fields: 4 (1) cultural anthropology, (2) linguistics, (3) archaeology, and (4) physical anthropology.
Usually conceived under the concept of ‘social-science approaches’, the development of these insights and interpretative methods exposed a variety of interests, mostly biblical (e.g. genealogies, prophecy, apocalypticism, sectarianism), but also illustrating more classical topics of anthropological research (e.g. politics and social ...
Given the presence of both collectivism and social comparison, SIT is a helpful heuristic tool for examining social identity formation in the biblical documents. In the last section of this article, I shall summarize several of the major and recent works to use SIT in biblical interpretation.
The Bible teaches us that God is our Creator, and we are his creation. Highlighting the relationship between Creator and creature, the Bible raises both the anthropological question―‘What is man?’―and the theological question―‘Who is God?’. The anthropological question is asked in relation to God, and the theological question is asked
Critically reviewing scholarship across history, anthropology, religious studies, and sociology, I characterize evangelical Biblicism as an interpretive tradition mediated by a complex set of sociocultural practices and textual ideologies.
