Anthropology and Biblical Studies: A Critical Manifesto

EMANUEL PFOH

Anthropology and the Bible: Critical Perspectives

Gorgias Press

Lugar: Piscataway (New Jersey, EE.UU.); Año: 2010; p. 15 - 35

This paper presents the main characteristics of the interpretive perspectives that an "Anthropology of the Bible" is expected to foster. The idea is moving beyond rationalistic paraphrases of biblical images, favouring instead critical anthropological assessments to both the history of Palestine, in its social, political, economic and ideological aspects, and the biblical stories, in order to grasp a serious understanding of their meaning for the ancient scribes that produced them.