Anthropological approaches to the Old Testament
By: edited with an introduction by Bernhard Lang.
Contributors: Lang, Bernhard, 1946-
Series: Issues in religion and theology ;; 8
Publisher: Fortress Press; SPCK
Published: 1985
Place of publication: Philadelphia; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
Subjects: Bible. O.T. -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Sociology, Biblical.; Ethnology.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 163-168.
Includes indexes.
Table of contents: title: Enslavement and the early Hebrew lineage system / Franz Steiner; title: The sin of Cain / Isaac Schapera; title: The Hebrew conception of corporate personality / John W. Rogerson; title: Prophecy, the problem of cross-cultural comparison / Thomas W. Overholt; title: The social organization of peasant poverty in Biblical Israel / Bernhard Lang; title: The abominations of Leviticus / Mary Douglas; title: One more time, Leviticus revisited / Michael P. Carroll; title: Genesis restructured / Michael P. Carroll; title: The logic of sacrifice / Edmund Leach; title: An interpretation of sacrifice in Leviticus / Douglas Davies.