Interpretation in religion / / edited by Shlomo Biderman and Ben-Ami Scharfstein.
Drawn by invitation from a number of countries, a group of scholars undertakes to explore the means by which the very attempt to grasp religions leads to a repeated process of internal reinterpretation and, often, transformation. Essays on interpretation in religion in general are followed by essays...
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| Superior document: | Philosophy and religion, volume 2 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, New York ;, Köln : : Brill,, 1992. |
| Year of Publication: | 1992 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Philosophy and religion ;
volume 2. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 290 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / S. Biderman and B.-A. Scharfstein
- Religion as interpretation / R.J. Zwi Werblowsky
- Philosophical reinterpretation of Scriptures / Asa Kasher
- Idolatry and the invisibility of God / Robert Merrihew Adams
- Pragmatic meanings as a particular source for the history of religions / Hans G. Kippenberg
- "Policy ecclesiastical": Thomas Hobbes on language, religion and interpretation / Anat Biletzki
- Semiosis and interpretation in ancient Egyptian ritual / Jan Assmann
- Dharma in Hinduism: the limits of interpretation / Shlomo Biderman
- Methodic deconstruction / Bibhuti S. Yadav
- Saadia and the Sefer Yetzirah: translation theory in classical Jewish thought / Ronald C. Kiener
- The divine command theory in Jewish thought: a modern phenomenon / Jacob Joshua Ross
- Interpretation as compromise: the case of the five daily Islamic prayers / Ilai Alon
- Moses' riddles: esoteric trends in patristic hermeneutics / Gedaliahu G. Stroumsa
- Jews, Christians and the dangerous ones in between / John G. Gager
- Symbolic value and the problem of evil: honor and shame / Marilyn McCord Adams.