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Anthropology and biblical studies : avenues of approach / edited by Louise J. Lawrence & Mario I. Aguilar.

Contributor(s): Lawrence, Louise Joy, 1975- | Aguilar, Mario I
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Leiden : Deo, [2004]Copyright date: ©2004Description: 324 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 905854026X (pbk.); 9789058540263Subject(s): Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc | Sociology, Biblical | Bible -- Social scientific criticismBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Introduction : a taste for "the Other" : interpreting biblical texts anthropologically / Louise J. Lawrence -- Nineteenth-century comparative sociology on Israel : the contribution of Herbert Spencer / David Chalcraft -- The context group project / Philip F. Esler -- Anthropology and the "end user" : the influence of receptor cultures on the translation of the Bible / David J. Clark -- 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 -- 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 social space : some reflections on the early Jesus movement and the Hauhau religion / Karen Wenell -- Virtuoso religion and the Judaean social order / Timothy J. Ling -- Purity, spirit and reciprocity in the Acts of the apostles / Douglas J. Davies -- Anthropology and the community as temple in Paul's letters / Albert L.A. Hogeterp -- Changing models and the death of culture / Mario I. Aguilar.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction : a taste for "the Other" : interpreting biblical texts anthropologically / Louise J. Lawrence -- Nineteenth-century comparative sociology on Israel : the contribution of Herbert Spencer / David Chalcraft -- The context group project / Philip F. Esler -- Anthropology and the "end user" : the influence of receptor cultures on the translation of the Bible / David J. Clark -- 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 -- 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 social space : some reflections on the early Jesus movement and the Hauhau religion / Karen Wenell -- Virtuoso religion and the Judaean social order / Timothy J. Ling -- Purity, spirit and reciprocity in the Acts of the apostles / Douglas J. Davies -- Anthropology and the community as temple in Paul's letters / Albert L.A. Hogeterp -- Changing models and the death of culture / Mario I. Aguilar.

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