ISBN:
9780567704757
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0567704750
,
9780567704764
,
9780567704740
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (496 pages)
Edition:
First edition
Edition:
Reproduktion Also published in print
Year of publication:
2021
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als T&T Clark handbook of anthropology and the Hebrew Bible
DDC:
220.6/7
Keywords:
Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc
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Bible and anthropology
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Bible and sociology
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Biblical studies & exegesis,Anthropology
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Bibel Altes Testament
;
Exegese
;
Anthropologie
Abstract:
"This handbook presents an overview of the main approaches from social and cultural anthropology to the Hebrew Bible. Since the late 19th century, biblical scholarship has addressed issues and themes related to biblical stories from a perspective which could now be considered socio-anthropological. It is however only since the 1960s that biblical scholars have started to produce readings and incorporate analytical models drawn directly from social anthropology to widen the interpretive scope of the social and historical data contained in the biblical sources. The handbook is arranged into two main thematic parts. Part 1: - Assesses the interpretive angles since the 19th century - Examines the place of the Bible in social anthropology - Looks at the social images created by travellers to the Holy Land and the anthropological approach to the archaeology of Palestine - Examines the contribution of ethnoarchaeology to the recovery of the social world of Iron Age Palestine - Offers insights from the anthropology of the Mediterranean for the interpretation of the biblical stories and the history of ancient Palestine. Part 2 provides a series of case studies on such themes as: - kinship and social organisation - power and authority - economy - gender - biblical anthropologies - honour and shame - ethnicity - reciprocal exchange - orality and literacy - myth and narrative - cultural and collective memory - ritualism - prophecy - commensality - death - iconography - spatiality and territoriality"--
Description / Table of Contents:
List of Tables and Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Social and Cultural Anthropology and the Hebrew Bible in Perspective - Emanuel Pfoh, National University of La Plata, Argentina -- I. HISTORIOGRAPHIES, THEORIES AND METHODS -- 2. Anthropologists and the Bible - Adam Kuper, London School of Economics, UK -- 3. Nineteenth-Century Travellers and the Bible - Eveline J. van der Steen, Liverpool University, UK -- 4. Phantoms, Factoids and Frontiers: Social Anthropology and the Archaeology of Palestine - Dermot Nestor, Australian Catholic University, Australia -- 5. Ethnographic and Ethnoarchaeological Insights to Interpret First-Millennium BCE Material Culture - Gloria London, University of Washington, USA -- 6. The Anthropology of the Mediterranean, the History of the Southern Levant and Biblical Studies - Emanuel Pfoh, National University of La Plata, Argentina -- II. THEMES, APPROACHES AND INTERPRETATIONS -- 7. Kinship and Social Organisation in Ancient Palestine - Paula M. McNutt, St. Ambrose University, USA -- 8. The Many Forms and Foundations of Power and Authority in the Hebrew Bible - Victor H. Matthews, Missouri State University, USA -- 9. Economic Anthropology and the Hebrew Bible - Roger S. Nam, Candler School of Theology, Emory University, USA -- 10. Gender and Society in Ancient Israel - Carol Meyers, Duke University, USA -- 11. Anthropologies of the Hebrew Bible - Jan Dietrich, University of Aarhus, Denmark -- 12. Honour, Shame and Other Social Values in the Hebrew Bible - Philip Esler, University of Gloucestershire, UK -- 13. For Moses "had indeed married a Cushite wife": Metaphors, Power, and Ethnicity in -- Numbers 12 - Katherine Southwood, University of Oxford, UK -- 14. Asymmetrical Reciprocal Exchange in the Book of Jonah - Jo-Marï Schäder, University of Pretoria, South Africa -- 15. Neither Divide nor Continuum: Orality and Literacy in the Hebrew Bible - Robert D. Miller II, The Catholic University of America, USA.
Description / Table of Contents:
16. Telling Tales: Biblical Myth and Narrative - Karolien Vermeulen, University of Antwerp, Belgium -- 17. A Social Anthropology of Biblical Memory - Niels Peter Lemche, University of Copenhagen, Denmark -- 18. Acts that Work, Texts that Work: Ritual in the Hebrew Bible - Anne Katrine Gudme, University of Oslo, Norway -- 19. Shaman, Preacher, or Spirit Medium? The Israelite Prophet in the Light of Anthropological Models - Lester L. Grabbe, University of Hull, UK -- 20. The Anthropology of Food in Ancient Israel - Cynthia Shafer-Elliott, William Jessup University, USA -- 21. The Social Life of the Dead - Francesca Stavrakopoulou, University of Exeter, UK -- 22. The Anthropology of Iconography in Ancient Palestine - Angelika Berlejung, University of Leipzig, Germany -- 23. Spatiality and Territoriality: Power over Land and Power over People - Stephen C. Russell, City University of New York, USA -- Index of Authors -- Index of Sources.
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DOI:
10.5040/9780567704757
