Cognitive science and ancient Israelite religion: new perspectives on texts, artefacts, and culture
Recent tools and findings from the cognitive sciences illuminate religious thought and behaviour in ancient Israel and the Bible.
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York
University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations
2020
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| In: | Year: 2020 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Maiden, Brett E., 1984-, Cognitive science and ancient Israelite religion : new perspectives on texts, artefacts, and culture] (2021) (Schaper, Joachim, 1965 -)
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| Series/Journal: | Society for Old Testament Study Monographs
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Old Testament
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/ Cognitive science
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| Summary: | Recent tools and findings from the cognitive sciences illuminate religious thought and behaviour in ancient Israel and the Bible. Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Intuitive and Reflective Cognition, Optimal and Costly Religion -- Cognitive Avenues in the Study of Israelite Religion -- Dual-Processing Models of Human Cognition -- Cognitively Optimal and Costly Religion -- The Problem of Theological Incorrectness -- Cognitively Optimal and Costly Aspects of Ancient Israelite Religion: A Road Map -- 2 Rethinking the Popular-Official Religion Dichotomy -- Introduction -- A Tale of Two Religions: Popular vs. Official -- Religion of the Teeming Masses -- The Popular-Official Religion Paradigm -- Non-overlapping Magisteria? -- A New Framework: Optimal and Costly Religions -- The Naturalness of Supernatural Agency -- Theoretical Implications for Israelite Religion -- Gods and Ancestors: Continuity across Official and Domestic Settings -- 3 Deuteronomic Theology as Cognitively Costly Religion -- Introduction -- Criteria for Cognitively Costly Religion -- History, Historicity, and the Deuteronomic Reforms -- The Cost of the Deuteronomic Name Theology -- The Texts -- Interpreting the Name Theology -- Name Theology and Cognition -- Textual Tensions as Theological Incorrectness -- The Cost of Cult Centralization -- The Texts -- Centralization and Cognition -- The Cost of Aniconic Worship -- The Texts -- Aniconism and Cognition -- Deuteronomic Theology and the Doctrinal Mode of Religiosity -- 4 Counterintuitive Mischwesen: Hybrid Creatures in Syro-Palestinian Iconography and Cognition -- Introduction -- Infectious Ideas and a Recipe for Religious Concepts -- Cultural Epidemiology -- Minimal Counterintuitiveness -- Testing the Theory: Possibilities and Limitations -- Hybrid Creatures in Iconography -- On Detecting Counterintuitiveness -- Winged Anthropomorphic Figures. |
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| ISBN: | 1108849776 |