RT Book
T1 Ancient Israel: the Old Testament in its social context
A2 Esler, Philip Francis 1952-
LA English
PP Minneapolis
PB Fortress Press
YR 2006
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/489682499
AB The use of social-scientific models in biblical interpretation and contents outline / Philip F. Esler -- The social-scientific analysis of the Old Testament : a brief history and overview / Philip F. Esler & Anselm Hagedorn -- General issues -- Tribalism in ancient Palestine and the Hebrew Bible / Robert Coote -- Polygyny in the biblical world : insights from Haiti / Carolyn Leeb -- Levitical sacrifice in anthropological perspective / Adriana Destro & Mauro Pesce -- Modeling exchange and reciprocity in biblical antiquity : covenantal exchange as a test case / Zeba Crook -- Wealth in ancient Israel : or, how Abraham became rich / Gary Stansell -- Prophets ancient and modern : Joseph Smith and the gestalt of the Israelite prophet / Lester Grabbe -- Body, ritual and states of ecstasy in the Old Testament / Dietmar Neufeld -- Social-scientific studies of texts -- Models matter : some implications of political economy for the textual exegesis of Micah 6:9-11 / Marvin Chaney -- Shameful encroachment on shameful parts : Deuteronomy 25:11-12 and biblical euphemism in social-scientific perspective / John H. Elliott -- (Dis)honor and ritual enactment in the Jephthah story / Richard E. DeMaris & Carolyn Leeb -- What Solomon's father did in the Ammonite War : a narrative and social-scientific study of 2 Samuel 10-12 / Philip F. Esler -- Altered states of consciousness and visions in Ezekiel / John Pilch -- Ethnicity and stereotypes in the book of Nahum : social-scientific insights into the literary history of a prophetic book / Anselm Hagedorn -- Symbolic wars,
NO Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-405) and index
CN BS1182.6
SN 0800637674
K1 Bible : Old Testament : Social scientific criticism : Congresses
K1 Bible : O.T : Social scientific criticism : Congresses
K1 Sociology, Biblical : Congresses
K1 Konferenzschrift : 2004 : Saint Andrews