T&T Clark handbook of anthropology and the Hebrew Bible.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Bible and anthropology.

Bible and sociology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (496 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London [England] ; New York [New York] : T & T Clark, [2022]

Contents:

List of Tables and Illustrations

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Social and Cultural Anthropology and the Hebrew Bible in Perspective

Emanuel Pfoh, National University of La Plata, Argentina

I. HISTORIOGRAPHIES, THEORIES AND METHODS

2. Anthropologists and the Bible

Adam Kuper, London School of Economics, UK

3. Nineteenth-Century Travellers and the Bible

Eveline J. van der Steen, Liverpool University, UK

4. Phantoms, Factoids and Frontiers: Social Anthropology and the Archaeology of Palestine

Dermot Nestor, Australian Catholic University, Australia

5. Ethnographic and Ethnoarchaeological Insights to Interpret First-Millennium BCE Material Culture

Gloria London, University of Washington, USA

6. The Anthropology of the Mediterranean, the History of the Southern Levant and Biblical Studies

II. THEMES, APPROACHES AND INTERPRETATIONS

7. Kinship and Social Organisation in Ancient Palestine

Paula M. McNutt, St. Ambrose University, USA

8. The Many Forms and Foundations of Power and Authority in the Hebrew Bible

Victor H. Matthews, Missouri State University, USA

9. Economic Anthropology and the Hebrew Bible

Roger S. Nam, Candler School of Theology, Emory University, USA

10. Gender and Society in Ancient Israel

Carol Meyers, Duke University, USA

11. Anthropologies of the Hebrew Bible

Jan Dietrich, University of Aarhus, Denmark

12. Honour, Shame and Other Social Values in the Hebrew Bible

Philip Esler, University of Gloucestershire, UK

13. For Moses "had indeed married a Cushite wife": Metaphors, Power, and Ethnicity in

Numbers 12

Katherine Southwood, University of Oxford, UK

14. Asymmetrical Reciprocal Exchange in the Book of Jonah

Jo-Marï Schäder, University of Pretoria, South Africa

15. Neither Divide nor Continuum: Orality and Literacy in the Hebrew Bible

Robert D. Miller II, The Catholic University of America, USA.

16. Telling Tales: Biblical Myth and Narrative

Karolien Vermeulen, University of Antwerp, Belgium

17. A Social Anthropology of Biblical Memory

Niels Peter Lemche, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

18. Acts that Work, Texts that Work: Ritual in the Hebrew Bible

Anne Katrine Gudme, University of Oslo, Norway

19. Shaman, Preacher, or Spirit Medium? The Israelite Prophet in the Light of Anthropological Models

Lester L. Grabbe, University of Hull, UK

20. The Anthropology of Food in Ancient Israel

Cynthia Shafer-Elliott, William Jessup University, USA

21. The Social Life of the Dead

Francesca Stavrakopoulou, University of Exeter, UK

22. The Anthropology of Iconography in Ancient Palestine

Angelika Berlejung, University of Leipzig, Germany

23. Spatiality and Territoriality: Power over Land and Power over People

Stephen C. Russell, City University of New York, USA

Index of Authors

Index of Sources.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9780567704757

0567704750

9780567704764

0567704769

9780567704740

0567704742

Publisher Number:

99992949580

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