| Cognitive Perspectives on Israelite Identity Contributor(s): Nestor, Dermot Anthony (Author), Mein, Andrew (Editor), Camp, Claudia V. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0567012972 ISBN-13: 9780567012975 Publisher: T&T Clark OUR PRICE: $198.00 Product Type: Hardcover Published: April 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Biblical Studies - History & Culture - Religion | Biblical Criticism & Interpretation - Old Testament - Social Science | Archaeology |
| Dewey: 220.830 |
| LCCN: 2009033455 |
| Series: Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.2" W x 9.3" (1.30 lbs) 288 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Cognitive Perspectives on Israelite Identity breaks new ground in the study of ethnic identity in the ancient world through the articulation of an explicitly cognitive perspective. In presenting a view of ethnicity as an epistemological rather than an ontological entity, this work seeks to correct the pronounced tendency towards 'analytical groupism' in the academic literature. Challenging what Pierre Bourdieu has called 'our primary inclination to think the world in a substantialist manner, ' this study seeks to break with the vernacular categories and 'commonsense primordialisms' encoded within the Biblical texts, whilst at the same time accounting for their tenacious hold on our social and political imagination. It is the recognition of the performative and reifying potential of these categories of ethno-political practice that disqualifies their appropriation as categories of social analysis |
Contributor Bio(s): Mein, Andrew: - Andrew Mein is Tutor in Old Testament, Westcott House, Cambridge. Camp, Claudia V.: - Claudia V. Camp is Professor of Religion at Texas Christian University, USA and was on the steering committee of the Seminar. She is currently co-general editor of the LHBOTS series, as well as the author or editor of 4 books and numerous articles. |