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.
| Autor principal: | |
|---|---|
| Tipo de documento: | Electrónico Libro |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
| Servicio de pedido Subito: | Pedir ahora. |
| Verificar disponibilidad: | HBZ Gateway |
| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
| Publicado: |
New York
University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations
2020
|
| En: | Año: 2020 |
| Críticas: | [Rezension von: Maiden, Brett E., 1984-, Cognitive science and ancient Israelite religion : new perspectives on texts, artefacts, and culture] (2021) (Schaper, Joachim, 1965 -)
|
| Colección / Revista: | Society for Old Testament Study Monographs
|
| (Cadenas de) Palabra clave estándar: | B
Bibel. Altes Testament
/ Religión
/ Ciencia cognitiva
|
| Otras palabras clave: | B
Electronic books
|
| Acceso en línea: |
Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Parallel Edition: | Electrónico
|
| Sumario: | 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. |
|---|---|
| Notas: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| ISBN: | 1108849776 |