T & T Clark Handbook of Anthropology and the Hebrew Bible

EMANUEL PFOH (EDITOR)

Bloomsbury T & T Clark

Lugar: Londres; Año: 2023 p. 550

978-0-567-70473-3

This handbook presents an overview of the main approaches from social and cultural anthropology to the Hebrew Bible. Since the late nineteenth century, biblical scholarship has addressed issues and themes related to the biblical stories from a perspective which could now be considered socio-anthropological. It is however only since the 1960s that biblical scholars started slowly to incorporate perspectives and modes drawn from social anthropology to widen the interpretive scope of the biblical sources. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the socio-anthropological perspective in biblical studies has developed considerably, touching upon virtually every aspect of the Hebrew Bible´s narrative and the social worlds behind it.The handbook is articulated into two main thematic parts. The first part assesses the interpretive angles since the nineteenth century onwards, dealing with the place of the Bible in social anthropology, the images created by travellers into the Holy Land, the anthropological approach to the archaeology of Palestine, the contribution of ethnoarchaeology to the recovery of the social world of Iron Age Palestine, and the perspectives from the anthropology of the Mediterranean to the interpretation of the biblical stories and the history of ancient Palestine. The second part offers a series of case studies dealing with kinship and social organisation; power and authority; economy; gender; biblical anthropologies; honour and shame; ethnicity; reciprocal exchange; orality and literacy; myth and narrative; cultural and collective memory; rituality; prophecy; commensality; death; iconography; and spatiality and territoriality.