Anthropology and biblical studies : : avenues of approach / / edited by Louise J. Lawrence & Mario I. Aguilar.
Presents the findings of an international research symposium, held at St Andrews University, Scotland, in July 2003. Contributors include both biblical scholars and anthropologists. The essays presented variously explore and review interdisciplinary links, innovations and developments between anthro...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden : : Deo Publishing,, [2004] ©2004 |
| Year of Publication: | 2004 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material / Duncan Fishwick and Mario I. Aguilar
- Preface / Louise J. Lawrence and Mario I. Aguilar
- Introduction A Taste for “The Other”: Interpreting Biblical Texts Anthropologically / Louise J. Lawrence
- Acknowledging Cultural Difference / Duncan Fishwick and Mario I. Aguilar
- Nineteenth-Century Comparative Sociology on Israel: The Contribution of Herbert Spencer / David Chalcraft
- The Context Group Project: An Autobiographical Account / Philip F. Esler
- Anthropology and the “End User”: The Influence of Receptor Cultures on the Translation of the Bible / David J. Clark
- Engaging Anthropology and Studies of the Hebrew Bible and Jewish Pseudepigrapha / Duncan Fishwick and Mario I. Aguilar
- Driving a Hard Bargain? Genesis 23 and Models of Economic Exchange / Nathan MacDonald
- A Theology of Writing: The Oral and the Written, God as Scribe, and the Book of Deuteronomy / Joachim Schaper
- Parallel Literary Editions of Joshua and the Israelite Mythologization of Ritual / Seth L. Sanders
- The Hebrew Wife and the Ottoman Wife: An Anthropological Essay on Proverbs 31: 10-31 / Bernhard Lang
- Ritual in the Jewish Pseudepigrapha / James R. Davila
- Engaging Anthropology and New Testament Studies / Duncan Fishwick and Mario I. Aguilar
- Possession and Sacrifice in the New Testament and African Traditional Religion: The Oral Forms and Conventions behind the Literary Genres / J.A. (Bobby) Loubser
- Land as Sacred and Sodal Space: Some Reflections on the Early Jesus Movement and the Hauhau Religion / Karen Wenell
- Virtuoso Religion and the Judaean Sodal World / Timothy J. Ling
- Purity, Spirit and Reciprocity in the Acts of the Apostles / Douglas J. Davies
- Community as a Temple in Paul's Letters: The Case of Cultic Terms in 2 Corinthians 6:14–7:1 / Albert L.A. Hogeterp
- Methodological Reflections / Duncan Fishwick and Mario I. Aguilar
- Changing Models and the “Death” of Culture: A Diachronie and Positive Critique of Socio-scientifie Assumptions / Mario I. Aguilar
- Index of Biblical References / Duncan Fishwick and Mario I. Aguilar
- Index of Authors / Duncan Fishwick and Mario I. Aguilar.