Anthropological approaches to the Old Testament /edited with an introduction by Bernhard Lang.

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Community of Christ Library

Name/Title

Anthropological approaches to the Old Testament /edited with an introduction by Bernhard Lang.

Description

Enslavement and the early Hebrew lineage system / Franz Steiner -- The sin of Cain / Isaac Schapera -- The Hebrew conception of corporate personality / John W. Rogerson -- Prophecy, the problem of cross-cultural comparison / Thomas W. Overholt -- The social organization of peasant poverty in Biblical Israel / Bernhard Lang -- The abominations of Leviticus / Mary Douglas -- One more time, Leviticus revisited / Michael P. Carroll -- Genesis restructured / Michael P. Carroll -- The logic of sacrifice / Edmund Leach -- An interpretation of sacrifice in Leviticus / Douglas Davies. xi, 175 p. ;22 cm.

Book Details

Place Published

City

Philadelphia :Fortress Press ;London

Date Published

1985

Publication Subjects

Bible.--Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc. Sociology, Biblical. Ethnology.

Call No.

BS1192 .A48 1985

ISBN

0800617711 (pbk.)

LCCN

84048723

Notes

Bibliography Note: Bibliography: p. 163-168.