Cognitive Perspectives on Israelite Identity breaks new ground in
the study of ethnic identity in the ancient world through the
articulation of an explicitly cognitive perspective. In presenting
a view of ethnicity as an epistemological rather than an
ontological entity, this work seeks to correct the pronounced
tendency towards 'analytical groupism' in the academic literature.
Challenging what Pierre Bourdieu has called 'our primary
inclination to think the world in a substantialist manner,' this
study seeks to break with the vernacular categories and
'commonsense primordialisms' encoded within the Biblical texts,
whilst at the same time accounting for their tenacious hold on our
social and political imagination. It is the recognition of the
performative and reifying potential of these categories of
ethno-political practice that disqualifies their appropriation as
categories of social analysis.
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