Anthropology and the Bible : : Critical Perspectives / / ed. by Emanuel Pfoh.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Chalcraft, David J.,; De Hemmer Gudme, Anne Katrine,; Gudme, Anne Katrine de Hemmer,; Guillaume, Philippe,; Lemche, Niels Peter,; Pfoh, Emanuel,; Pradhananga, Neelam,; Steen, Eveline van der ,; Van Der Steen, Eveline J.,; Wajdenbaum, Philippe ,; Wajdenbaum, Philippe,
• HerausgeberIn: Pfoh, Emanuel,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Biblical Intersections ; Volume
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (179 p.)

The papers in this anthology represent the proceedings of the Anthropology and the Bible session from the European Association of Biblical Studies Annual Meeting held in Lincoln, UK (July 2009). The main aim of the session is to foster critical uses of social anthropology for reading biblical scholarship and ancient Near Eastern studies related to the Bible. The papers of this volume reflect all these perspectives and stand as a critical renewal of the uses of anthropology and sociology in biblical scholarship in distinction to social-science approaches.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Introduction: Anthropology and the Bible Revisited -- Method -- Anthropology and Biblical Studies: A Critical Manifesto -- Is Sociology Also Among the Social Sciences? Some Personal Reflections on Sociological Approaches in Biblical Studies -- Modes of Religion: An Alternative to ‘Popular/Official’ Religion -- Criticism -- Avraham Faust, Israel’s Ethnogenesis, and Social Anthropology -- Case Studies -- The Hidden Benefits of Patronage: Debt -- David as a Tribal Hero: Reshaping Oral Traditions -- Jacob and David, the Bible’s Literary Twins -- Index of Authors -- Index of References