Socio-historical understanding of biblical texts. A proposal for non-specialized readers.

Abstract

The emergence of new approaches to approach the biblical text that occurred in the second half of the last century in the field of biblical exegesis has meant an enrichment of the critical historical method, classified as essential for biblical exegesis. Among the new methods of approaching the biblical text is the socio-historical or contextual approach. Its purpose is to shorten the distance between the current reader and the reader of two millennia ago through the use of social sciences and cultural anthropology. Taking this framework into account, a study was carried out whose purpose was to design a program for the socio-historical understanding of biblical texts to reinforce their understanding in religion teachers of the ODEC Chiclayo. The research was carried out under the positivist paradigm, with a quantitative approach of a basic purposeful level. The population was selected through the intentional probabilistic survey. A socio-historical comprehension test was applied, the result of which evidenced the need to reinforce the comprehension of biblical texts also through the elements of socio-historical analysis.