Anthropological Approaches to the Old Testament /

Anthropological Approaches to the Old Testament / edited with an introduction by Bernhard Lang. - Philadelphia : Fortress Press, c1985. - xi, 175 p. ; 22 cm. - Issues in religion and theology ; 8 .

Includes bibliographic references (p. 163-168) and index.

Enslavement and the early Hebrew lineage system / Franz Steiner -- The sin of Cain / Isaac Schapera -- The Hebrew conception of corporate personality / John W. Rogerson -- Prophecy, the problem of cross-cultural comparison / Thomas W. Overholt -- The social organization of peasant poverty in Biblical Israel / Bernhard Lang -- The abominations of Leviticus / Mary Douglas -- One more time, Leviticus revisited / Michael P. Carroll -- Genesis restructured / Michael P. Carroll -- The logic of sacrifice / Edmund Leach -- An interpretation of sacrifice in Leviticus / Douglas Davies.

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Bible.--Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.


Sociology, Biblical.
Ethnology.

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