Ancient Israel
Subtitle: the Old Testament in its social context
By: edited by Philip F. Esler.
Contributors: Esler, Philip Francis.
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Minneapolis, MN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 420
Subjects: Bible. O.T. -- Social scientific criticism -- Congresses.; Sociology, Biblical -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The use of social-scientific models in biblical interpretation and contents outline / Philip F. Esler; title: The social-scientific analysis of the Old Testament : a brief history and overview / Philip F. Esler & Anselm Hagedorn; title: General issues; title: Tribalism in ancient Palestine and the Hebrew Bible / Robert Coote; title: Polygyny in the biblical world : insights from Haiti / Carolyn Leeb; title: Levitical sacrifice in anthropological perspective / Adriana Destro & Mauro Pesce; title: Modeling exchange and reciprocity in biblical antiquity : covenantal exchange as a test case / Zeba Crook; title: Wealth in ancient Israel : or, how Abraham became rich / Gary Stansell; title: Prophets ancient and modern : Joseph Smith and the gestalt of the Israelite prophet / Lester Grabbe; title: Body, ritual and states of ecstasy in the Old Testament / Dietmar Neufeld; title: Social-scientific studies of texts; title: Models matter : some implications of political economy for the textual exegesis of Micah 6:9-11 / Marvin Chaney; title: Shameful encroachment on shameful parts : Deuteronomy 25:11-12 and biblical euphemism in social-scientific perspective / John H. Elliott; title: (Dis)honor and ritual enactment in the Jephthah story / Richard E. DeMaris & Carolyn Leeb; title: What Solomon's father did in the Ammonite War : a narrative and social-scientific study of 2 Samuel 10-12 / Philip F. Esler; title: Altered states of consciousness and visions in Ezekiel / John Pilch; title: Ethnicity and stereotypes in the book of Nahum : social-scientific insights into the literary history of a prophetic book / Anselm Hagedorn; title: Symbolic wars, age-sets and the anthropology of war in 1 Maccabees / Mario Aguilar; title: The prototypical teacher in the Qumran Pesharim : a social identity approach  / Jutta Jokiranta; title: Hermeneutical dimensions; title: Freud, Moses and monotheism : the future of Freud's illusion / Andrew Mayes; title: Identity theory, politics and the pontifical biblical commission's the Jewish people and its scriptures in the Christian Bible / Bruce J. Malina; title: Marcion's truth : biblical hermeneutics in developmental perspective / Douglas E. Oakman.