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First words, last words : new theories for reading old texts in sixteenth-century India / Yigal Bronner and Lawrence McCrea.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bronner, Yigal, author.
- McCrea, Lawrence J., author.
- Series:
- AAR religion in translation.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Religion in translation
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sacred books--History and criticism.
- Sacred books.
- Sanskrit literature--History and criticism--History.
- Sanskrit literature.
- Vedas--Hermeneutics--History.
- Vedas.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (208 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- This work explores the nature of theoretical innovation in scholastic traditions by focusing on a specific controversy regarding scriptural interpretation in 16th-century India. The controversy concerns the role of sequence-what comes first and what comes later-in determining our interpretation of a scriptural passage. Bronner and McCrea trace both the issue of sequence and the question of innovation through an in-depth study of this debate and through a comparative survey of similar problems in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, revealing that the disputants in this controversy often pretended to uphold traditional views, when they were in fact radically innovative.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2021.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 30, 2021).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-758349-0
- 0-19-758350-4
- 0-19-758348-2
- OCLC:
- 1249711060
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