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T&T Clark Handbook of Anthropology and the Hebrew Bible (Hardcover)
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T&T Clark Handbook of Anthropology and the Hebrew Bible (Hardcover)
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This handbook presents an overview of the main approaches from
social and cultural anthropology to the Hebrew Bible. Since the
late 19th century, biblical scholarship has addressed issues and
themes related to biblical stories from a perspective which could
now be considered socio-anthropological. It is however only since
the 1960s that biblical scholars have started to produce readings
and incorporate analytical models drawn directly from social
anthropology to widen the interpretive scope of the social and
historical data contained in the biblical sources. The handbook is
arranged into two main thematic parts. Part 1 assesses the place of
the Bible in social anthropology, examines the contribution of
ethnoarchaeology to the recovery of the social world of Iron Age
Palestine and offers insights from the anthropology of the
Mediterranean for the interpretation of the biblical stories. Part
2 provides a series of case studies on anthropological themes
arising in the Hebrew Bible. These include kinship and social
organisation, death, cultural and collective memory, and ritualism.
Contributors also examine how the biblical stories reveal dynamics
of power and authority, gender, and honour and shame, and how
socio-anthropological approaches can reveal these narratives and
deepen our knowledge of the human societies and cultural context of
the texts. Bringing together the expertise of scholars of the
Hebrew Bible and Biblical Archaeology, this ethnographic
introduction prompts new questions into our understanding of
anthropology and the Bible.
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