Lectures On The Religion Of The Semites Second And Third Series
DOWNLOAD
Download Lectures On The Religion Of The Semites Second And Third Series PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get Lectures On The Religion Of The Semites Second And Third Series book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
Lectures On The Religion Of The Semites Second And Third Series
DOWNLOAD
Author : William Robertson Smith
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 1995-09-01
Lectures On The Religion Of The Semites Second And Third Series written by William Robertson Smith and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-09-01 with Religion categories.
The outstanding nineteenth-century biblical scholar and Semitist William Robertson Smith gave three courses of Burnett Lectures on the Religion of the Semites at Aberdeen just over a century ago. The first series, published in 1889 (2nd edn, 1894), has long been a classic work. The second and third series were never published, owing to the author's ill health; however, the manuscript of them still exists in the Cambridge University Library and was recently discovered by John Day, who has produced this edited version of the work to commemorate the centenary of Smith's death. The Lectures, which constitute a work of considerable Semitic and Classical learning, are on the following subjects: Feasts, Priests and the Priestly Oracle, Prophecy and Divination, Semitic Polytheism and Cosmogony. Dr Day has written an Introduction, which evaluates the work and includes nineteenth-century press reports of the Lectures.
Lectures On The Religion Of The Semites
DOWNLOAD
Author : William Robertson Smith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1889
Lectures On The Religion Of The Semites written by William Robertson Smith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1889 with Sacrifice categories.
Lectures On The Religion Of The Semites
DOWNLOAD
Author : William Robertson Smith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1889
Lectures On The Religion Of The Semites written by William Robertson Smith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1889 with categories.
Lectures On The Religion Of The Semites First Series The Fundamental Institutions
DOWNLOAD
Author : William Robertson Smith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1889
Lectures On The Religion Of The Semites First Series The Fundamental Institutions written by William Robertson Smith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1889 with Sacrifice categories.
The Prophets Of Israel And Their Place In History
DOWNLOAD
Author : William Robertson Smith
language : en
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Release Date : 1895
The Prophets Of Israel And Their Place In History written by William Robertson Smith and has been published by Transaction Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1895 with Religion categories.
In the history of nineteenth-century religious thought, William Robertson Smith occupies an ambiguous position. More than any other writer, he stimulated the theories of religion later advanced by Frazer, Durkheim, and Freud. Smith himself was not an original scholar, but was rather "clever at presenting other men's theories" within new and sometimes hostile contexts. Smith was an important contributor to two of the most serious challenges to Christian orthodoxy of the last century, the "Higher Criticism" of the Bible and the comparative study of religion, and was also the victim of the last successful heresy trial in Great Britain. Yet he was an utterly devout Protestant, whose views on Biblical criticism (for which he was damned) are now considered as true as his views on totemism and sacrifice (for which he was praised) are now considered false. Despite Smith's enormous significance for the history of religious ideas, he has been written about relatively little, and most of what we know about his life and work comes from a source almost a century old. Originally published in 1882, The Prophets of Israel is a collection of eight lectures, including "Israel and Jehovah;" "Jehovah and the Gods of the Nations," "Amos and the House of Jehu," "Hosea and the Fall of Ephraim," "The Kingdom of Judah and the Beginnings of Isaiah's Work," "The Earlier Prophesies of Isaiah," "Isaiah and Micah in the Reign of Hezekiah," and "The Deliverance from Assyria." A new introduction by Robert Alun Jones discusses Smith's early life, the heresy trial, Smith's early view of prophecy, and the classic text itself. The book will be of interest to students and teachers of religious studies, and general readers interested in Robertson Smith.
W Robertson Smith And The Sociological Study Of Religion
DOWNLOAD
Author : T. O. Beidelman
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2016-09-30
W Robertson Smith And The Sociological Study Of Religion written by T. O. Beidelman and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-30 with Religion categories.
William Robertson Smith (1846-94) was one of the most profound and versatile Victorian thinkers--a principal figure in the development of social anthropology and the founder of modern sociology of religion. In W. Robertson Smith and the Sociological Study of Religion, T. O. Beidelman, a renowned anthropologist and ethnographer, relates Smith's personality and career to the radical nature of his investigations. His study contains the only readily available account of Smith's life, and represents the only attempt to place Smith's work within the contemporary perspective of the field of social studies. Professor Beidelman discusses how Smith introduced to Britain the revolutionary interpretations in the fields of biblical and Semitic literary studies first formulated by Continental scholars, as well his original views on the interrelationship between human psychology, social structure, and history. The author also reviews the intellectual background and basic themes of Smith's work, the impact that it had upon his contemporaries, and the later influence that his theories had upon such diverse thinkers as Durkheim, Mauss, Hubert, Frazer, Radcliffe-Brown, Evans-Pritchard, and Freud. In his Lectures on the Religion of the Semites, his last and most famous work, Smith sought to define the essential nature of religious behavior, and he approached the analysis of social institutions through comparative and historical studies. This is a problem that remains central to social anthropology, and the general methods by which Smith endeavored to clarify it are still employed today. Professor Beidelman indicates the ways in which Smith may still be read with profit, and he supplements his study with an extensive bibliography of works by and about this influential thinker.
Holy Men And Hunger Artists
DOWNLOAD
Author : Eliezer Diamond
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2004
Holy Men And Hunger Artists written by Eliezer Diamond and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Literary Criticism categories.
The existence of ascetic elements within rabbinic Judaism has generally been either overlooked or actually denied. Diamond shows that rabbinic asceticism does indeed exist. This asceticism is mainly secondary, rather than primary, in that the rabbis place no value on self-denial in and of itself.
A Table In The Presence Of My Enemies
DOWNLOAD
Author : Matthew Wade Umbarger
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2024-06-25
A Table In The Presence Of My Enemies written by Matthew Wade Umbarger and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-25 with Religion categories.
Psalm 23, the most beloved of the Psalms, contains a perplexing riddle. What can it possibly mean that God prepares a table in the presence of the psalmist’s enemies? Matthew Umbarger proposes that Psalm 23:5 makes the most sense when read according to its cultural context of prebattle covenant banquets. Beginning with ancient Mesopotamian mythology, Umbarger traces a conceptual trajectory of the prebattle banquet motif that reaches its zenith in the apocalyptic banquets of Second Temple Period literature and the eucharistic theology of the early church.
Nazirites In Late Second Temple Judaism
DOWNLOAD
Author : Stuart Chepey
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2018-12-10
Nazirites In Late Second Temple Judaism written by Stuart Chepey and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-10 with Religion categories.
Nazirites appear in a number of sources relevant to Judaism of the late Second Temple period. This book surveys the pertinent evidence and assesses what it reveals regarding the role of the Nazirite within Judaism of the late Second Temple and early Christian era. The survey is arranged according to three primary sections: “Direct Evidence for Nazirites”; “Possible and Tangential Evidence for Nazirites”; and a final section, “Making Sense of the Evidence.” It concludes by arguing that the role of the Nazirite portrayed in sources was that of a religious devotee, and concomitant with biblical law, Nazirite devotion typically involved flexibility, personal freedom of expression, and adaptation to outside cultural norms. Those interested in the Nazirite vow as portrayed in the New Testament and other relevant sources will find this study useful, as will those interested in Bible translation and interpretation in late Second Temple and early rabbinic literature.
The Vow And The Popular Religious Groups Of Ancient Israel
DOWNLOAD
Author : Jacques Berlinerblau
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 1996-03-01
The Vow And The Popular Religious Groups Of Ancient Israel written by Jacques Berlinerblau and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-03-01 with Religion categories.
Berlinerblau argues that in order to procure reliable historical information about 'popular religious groups' (such as women, non-privileged economic strata, heterodox elements) we must search for what he calls 'implicit evidence': mundane details regarding the vow which the biblical writers tacitly assumed and hence unknowingly bequeathed to posterity. By piecing together these strands of implicit evidence the author attempts to reconstruct the basic norms of the Israelite votive system. In so doing, he explains why certain 'popular religious groups' were attracted to this particular practice.