Anthropology and the Bible : : Critical Perspectives /

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

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 schola...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (179 p.)
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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

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