Cognitive Perspectives on Israelite Identity
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Cognitive Perspectives on Israelite Identity

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Cognitive Perspectives on Israelite Identity

About this book

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.

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Yes, you can access Cognitive Perspectives on Israelite Identity by Dermot Anthony Nestor in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Theology & Religion & Biblical Criticism & Interpretation. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
T&T Clark
Year
2010
Print ISBN
9780567688354
eBook ISBN
9780567468000
Edition
1
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Biblical Criticism & Interpretation

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Abbreviations
  8. Introduction
  9. Chapter 1. Classification and Categorization in the Human Sciences
  10. Chapter 2. Nationalist Archaeology and the Emergence of the Culture Historical Paradigm
  11. Chapter 3. Ethnicity: A Theoretical Review
  12. Chapter 4. Ethnicity as Cognition
  13. Chapter 5. Ethnicity and Material Culture
  14. Chapter 6. Israelite Identity and Archaeology
  15. Chapter 7. Israelite Identity and the Hebrew Bible
  16. Chapter 8. Israelite Identity: Defining the Boundaries
  17. Conclusion
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index of References
  20. Index of Authors