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Originally published in 1885, this book by William Robertson Smith
examines the history of marriage and kinship relations within
tribal groups in Arabia at the beginning of Islam. The text
explains the intricate links of heredity and dependence among
various groups based on male descent, as well as taking an
interesting look at the practice of polyandry in various groups.
Highly influential in its own day as well as later, this book will
be of use to anyone interested in anthropology and the state of
Arabic tribal groups in the time of Mohammed.
Julius Wellhausen (1844 1918) first published this work in German
in 1878. Reissued here is the 1885 English translation of a revised
1883 version. Intended as a multi-volume work, this first book now
stands as a self-contained work. A biblical scholar and
orientalist, Wellhausen was professor of theology at Greifswald
(until resigning for reasons of conscience) and then professor at
Halle, Marburg and Gottingen. An early exponent of scientific
philology, he placed the Pentateuch in a historical-social context,
setting aside theological traditions. In this work, he sets out his
method and argues that the Pentateuch is a synthesis of four
independent narratives. He then examines the history of worship,
sacrifice, sacred feasts, priests, and the law in ancient Israel.
Wellhausen is a central figure in modern biblical studies, his
theory dominated scholarship for a century, and his pioneering work
remains of great interest in the field."
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Kinship and Marriage in Early Arabia
William Robertson Smith; Edited by Stanley A. Cook; Preface by E L Peters
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Kinship and Marriage in Early Arabia
William Robertson Smith; Edited by Stanley A. Cook; Preface by E L Peters
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Selected Letters (Hardcover)
William Robertson Smith; Edited by Bernhard Maier; As told to Astrid Hess
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William Robertson Smith (1846-1894) is generally considered to be
among the most important pioneers of Biblical Criticism, Social
Anthropology and Comparative Religious Studies. This volume
contains ca. 400 letters to his family, friends, and colleagues,
spanning the period from his early student days in 1863 to his
final illness in 1894 and covering a wide range of topics. Among
the recipients of the letters are his parents, his siblings, his
close friends and confidants John Sutherland Black and Thomas
Martin Lindsay, his teacher in Arabic, Paul de Lagarde, and such
notable men of learning as the Old Testament scholars Julius
Wellhausen and Abraham Kuenen, the Arabists Jan de Goeje and
Theodor Noeldeke, the politician James Bryce, the social
anthropologist James George Frazer, the artist George Reid, the
physicist Peter Guthrie Tait, and the mathematicians Felix Klein
and Max Noether.
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