Anthropology and the Bible

Critical Perspectives

The papers in this anthology represent the proceedings of the Anthropology and the Bible session from the European Association of Biblical Studies Annual Meeting held in Lincoln, UK (July 2009). The main aim of the session is to foster critical uses of social anthropology for reading biblical scholarship and ancient Near Eastern studies related to the Bible. The papers of this volume reflect all these perspectives and stand as a critical renewal of the uses of anthropology and sociology in biblical scholarship in distinction to social-science approaches.

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Publication Date: Jun 17,2010

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The papers in this anthology represent the proceedings of the Anthropology and the Bible session from the European Association of Biblical Studies Annual Meeting held in Lincoln, UK (July 2009). The main aim of the session is to foster critical uses of social anthropology for reading biblical scholarship and ancient Near Eastern studies related to the Bible as well. The papers of this volume reflect all these perspectives and stand as a critical renewal of the uses of anthropology and sociology in biblical scholarship in distinction to social-science approaches.

Contributors include: David Chalcraft, Anne Katrine Gudme, Niels Peter Lemche, Philippe Guillaume, Eveline van der Steen, Philippe Wajdenbaum, and Emanuel Pfoh.

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The papers in this anthology represent the proceedings of the Anthropology and the Bible session from the European Association of Biblical Studies Annual Meeting held in Lincoln, UK (July 2009). The main aim of the session is to foster critical uses of social anthropology for reading biblical scholarship and ancient Near Eastern studies related to the Bible as well. The papers of this volume reflect all these perspectives and stand as a critical renewal of the uses of anthropology and sociology in biblical scholarship in distinction to social-science approaches.

Contributors include: David Chalcraft, Anne Katrine Gudme, Niels Peter Lemche, Philippe Guillaume, Eveline van der Steen, Philippe Wajdenbaum, and Emanuel Pfoh.

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	Contributor	Biography
	EmanuelPfoh	Emanuel Pfoh teaches at the Department of History of the National University of La Plata, Argentina. His field of research is the history and anthropology of the Levant in antiquity. He is the author of The Emergence of Israel in Ancient Palestine: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives.
	David J.Chalcraft
	Anne Katrine de HemmerGudme	Anne Katrine Gudme is Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible Studies at the University of Copenhagen. She did her doctoral research on votive practice in the Hebrew Bible and the dedicatory inscriptions on Mount Gerizim and she has published several articles on ritual, vows and votive practice in the Hebrew Bible and in Ancient Mediterranean religions.
	Niels PeterLemche
	NeelamPradhananga
	Eveline van der Steen
	Philippe Wajdenbaum

Table of Contents (page 5)
Acknowledgments (page 7)
Abbreviations (page 9)
List of Contributors (page 11)
Introduction (page 13)

Introduction: Anthropology and the Bible Revisited (page 15)

Presentation (page 15)
Anthropology, Sociology and the Bible in the 19th and 20th Centuries (page 16)
Contributions (page 21)

Method (page 25)

Anthropology and Biblical Studies:A Critical Manifesto (page 27)

Anthropology as a Main Analytical Perspective for the Historian (page 27)
Interpretive Strategies: Emic and Etic in Biblical Interpretation (page 31)

1) Emic Perspectives (page 32)

1.1. Literal Readings (page 32)
1.2. Rationalistic Paraphrases (page 33)
1.3. A Contextual Approach (a): From Within the Text (page 33)

2) Etic Perspectives (page 35)

2.1. A Contextual Approach (page 35)
2.2. An Historical Anthropological Perspective (page 36)

2.2.1. An anthropology of the dynamics of political power (page 37)
2.2.2. An anthropology of Palestines ethnicities (page 38)
2.2.3. A socio-anthropology of Palestines religious imagination and practices (page 39)
2.2.4. An anthropology of Palestines economics (page 40)
2.2.5. An anthropology of the biblical mythic universe (page 41)

The Social Background of Texts and of the Interpreters of Texts (page 42)

1) The Original Interpreters (page 42)
2) The Received View (page 43)
3) The Historiographical Context of Biblical Studies (page 43)

Is Sociology Also Among the Social Sciences? Some Personal Reflections on Sociological Approaches in Biblical Studies (page 49)

1. Is Sociology Also a Social Science? (page 49)
2. Sociology Unique Amongst the Social Sciences (page 52)
3. Epistemological and Ontological Differences (page 57)
4. The Differences Made By and to the Social Science Used and the Need to Report Back (page 59)
5. The Body of Theory and Creativity (page 60)
6. The Sociological Imagination and Grounded Theory (page 62)
7. The Sociological Vocation (page 67)
8. Two Essential Components of the Sociological Imagination (page 69)

8.1. The Social as Significant Variable (page 69)
8.2. The Nature of Modernity (page 70)

9. Ideal Types, Comparative Historical Research and the Sociology of Texts: a Neo-Weberian Approach (page 73)
10. Finallyƒ Sociology and Reception History of the Bible (page 76)
Bibliography (page 77)

Modes of Religion: An Alternative to Popular/Official Religion (page 89)

Criticism (page 103)

Avraham Faust, Israels Ethnogenesis, and Social Anthropology (page 105)

Case Studies (page 117)

The Hidden Benefits of Patronage: Debt (page 119)

Antichresis (page 124)
Plentiful Land (page 125)
Illusory Usury (page 127)
Patronage (page 130)
Debt: The Ethnographic View (page 130)
Debt: An Essential Ingredient of Patronage (page 132)
Inequality and Reciprocity (page 138)

David as a Tribal Hero: Reshaping Oral Traditions (page 139)

Bibliography (page 147)

Jacob and David, the Bibles Literary Twins (page 149)

Index of Authors (page 171)
Index of References (page 177)

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