The Context Group

The Context Group ( Eng.: The Context Group) is a late 1980s based international working group of Christian exegetes of the Old and New Testament that involve the results of sociological and socio-cultural research in their programmatic work. The sociological interpretation of the Bible is therefore in the context of research directions as Feminist exegesis, liberation theology, gender studies and biblical criticism of society.

The members and participants of the Context Group meet annually at an international conference in the U.S., which takes place alternately in Portland / OR, and Philadelphia / PA.

Within the exegetical disciplines in the social sciences biblical interpretation has been since the 1990s supplemented inter alia by linguistic, intertextual and the aesthetics of reception methods and partially displaced. Representatives of the social sciences Biblical exegesis have therefore revised their hermeneutics increasingly in terms of recent research approaches and expanded.