Author: Edmund Leach
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Languages : en
Pages : 132

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Author: Sir Edmund Ronald Leach
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Pages : 132

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Author: Stanley J. Tambiah
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521521024
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 548

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Intellectual biography of Edmund Leach, a leading social anthropologist of his generation, with illustrations.

Author: Seth Daniel Kunin
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0567271722
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 305

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The myths of Genesis are the foundation for hundreds of texts written at later diachronically distinct and datable periods. Seven texts-Genesis itself, Genesis Rabbah, Pirke deRabbi Eliezer and mediaeval compilations-are examined here, with five interrelated questions in focus: Can structuralist theory be applied usefully to societies conscious of history and change? What is the relationship between continuity and trasformation as a mythological tradition develops diachronically? What role does diachronic development within a myth play in relation to its underlying structure? What is the synchronic structure of Israelite (or rather, biblical) myth? Are there identifiable patterns of transformation and continuity between biblical myth and the three diachronically distinct levels of rabbinic myth?

Author: Stanley E. Porter
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1498292909
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 527

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This two-volume set is part of a growing body of literature concerned with the history of biblical interpretation. The ample introduction first situates key players in the story of the development of the major strands of biblical interpretation since the Enlightenment, identifying how different theoretical and methodological approaches are related to each other and describing the academic environment in which they emerged and developed. Volume 1 contains fourteen essays on twenty-two interpreters who were principally active before 1980, and volume 2 has nineteen essays on twenty-seven of those who were active primarily after this date. Each chapter provides a brief biography of one or more scholars, as well as a detailed description of their major contributions to the field. This is followed by an (often new) application of the scholar's theory. By focusing on the individual scholars and their work, the book recognizes that interpretive approaches arise out of certain circumstances, and that scholars are influenced by, and have influences upon, both other interpreters and the times in which they live. This set is ideal for any class on the history of biblical interpretation and for those who want a greater understanding of how the current field of biblical studies developed.

Author: Edmund Leach
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521274920
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 154

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Through the application of anthropological techniques for analysing myth the essays in this 1983 volume offer interesting and thought-provoking structuralist insights for a variety of particular cases in the Scriptures. They also give some account of past interactions between anthropologists and Christian theologians, and enter the debate on the historicity of Biblical events. Edmund Leach has been interested for many years in the implications of a structuralist mode of myth analysis for the explanation of scriptural texts and problems. His essays in this book continue the line of enquiry he first developed in Genesis as Myth (1969) and he pursues his arguments here with characteristic colour and brilliance of exposition. With the two pieces by Dr Alan Aycock on related themes, this volume makes a fascinating and controversial contribution to the study and interpretation of the Bible.

Author: David C. Greenwood
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110862409
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Sinceits founding by Jacques Waardenburg in 1971, Religion and Reason has been a leading forum for contributions on theories, theoretical issues and agendas related to the phenomenon and the study of religion. Topics include (among others) category formation, comparison, ethnophilosophy, hermeneutics, methodology, myth, phenomenology, philosophy of science, scientific atheism, structuralism, and theories of religion. From time to time the series publishes volumes that map the state of the art and the history of the discipline.

Author: R. Barthes
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 0915138026
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 174

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Author: Robert Polzin
Publisher: Philadelphia : Fortress Press ; Missoula, Mont. : Scholars Press
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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