T&T Clark Handbook of Anthropology and the Hebrew Bible

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CHAPTER ONE Introduction Social and cultural anthropology and the Hebrew Bible in perspective EMANUEL PFOH
	ABOUT THIS HANDBOOK
	REFERENCES
PART ONE Historiographies, theories and methods
	CHAPTER TWO Anthropologists and the Bible ADAM KUPER
		REFERENCES
	CHAPTER THREE The Holy Land and the Bible in the nineteenth century EVELINE J. VAN DER STEEN
		INTRODUCTION
		EARLY CRITICAL RESEARCHERS
		WALKING ON HOLY GROUND
		IDENTIFICATION OF HOLY PLACES
		THE STORY OF THE EXODUS
		WRITTEN HISTORY: THE BIBLE FROM COVER TO COVER
		LOCAL TRADITIONS AND THE BIBLE
		ETHNOGRAPHY IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
		BIBLE AND POLITICS
		ZIONISM AND ANTISEMITISM
		LOCAL CHRISTIANITY
		MISSIONARIES
		JERUSALEM AND THE FOOTSTEPS OF JESUS
		CONCLUSION
		REFERENCES
	CHAPTER FOUR Phantoms, factoids and frontiers Social anthropology and the archaeology of Palestine DERMOT NESTOR
		THINKING ABOUT THINGS
		THINGS AS IDEAS AND AS ADAPTIVE RESPONSES
		THINGS AS SYMBOLS
		THINGS AS THINGS
		REFERENCES
	CHAPTER FIVE Ethnographic and ethnoarchaeological insights to interpret first-millennium BCE material culture GLORIA LONDON
		INTRODUCTION
		ETHNOGRAPHIC AND ETHNOARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH STRATEGIES AND TECHNIQUES
		EXAMPLES OF ETHNOARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH
		FIRST-MILLENNIUM BCE POTTERY INDUSTRY: ORGANIZATION, HETEROGENEITY, DIVERSITY, ND LOCATION
		RELIGION: ARTEFACTS AND PRACTICES
		SUMMARY
		ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
		REFERENCES
	CHAPTER SIX The anthropology of the Mediterranean, the history of the southern Levant and biblical studies EMANUEL PFOH
		CRITICAL EPISTEMOLOGIES AND HYBRID METHODS
		THE ‘ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE MEDITERRANEAN’ AS FIELDWORK AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL GENRE
		ON ‘MEDITERRANEAN’ FEATURES IN THE ANCIENT SOUTHERN LEVANT
		ON ‘MEDITERRANEAN’ FEATURES IN BIBLICAL TEXTS
		A CONCLUSION
		REFERENCES
PART TWO Themes, approaches and interpretations
	CHAPTER SEVEN Kinship and social organization in ancient Palestine PAULA M. MCNUTT
		SOCIOPOLITICAL ORGANIZATION AND STRUCTURE: TRIBES AND SEGMENTED SYSTEMS IN IRON AGE I
		SOCIOPOLITICAL ORGANIZATION AND STRUCTURE IN IRON AGE II
		SOCIAL ORGANIZATION IN THE PERSIAN PERIOD
		REFERENCES
	CHAPTER EIGHT The many forms and foundations of power and authority in the Hebrew Bible VICTOR H. MATTHEWS
		THEORETICAL EVALUATION OF POWER AND AUTHORITY
		POLITICAL POWER AND AUTHORITY
		DIPLOMATIC POWER AND AUTHORITY
		LEGAL POWER AND AUTHORITY
		EDUCATIONAL POWER AND AUTHORITY
		ECONOMIC POWER AND AUTHORITY
		CONCLUSION
		REFERENCES
	CHAPTER NINE Economic anthropology and the Hebrew Bible ROGER S. NAM
		INTRODUCTION
		A SURVEY OF ECONOMICS AND BIBLICAL STUDIES
		ECONOMIC ANTHROPOLOGY
		DESCRIPTION OF SOURCES
		RECIPROCITY
		REDISTRIBUTION
		MARKET EXCHANGE
		REFERENCES
	CHAPTER TEN Gender and society in ancient Israel CAROL MEYERS
		INTRODUCTION
		GENDER RELATIONSHIPS
		THE LARGER SOCIAL SYSTEM
		EVALUATING INEQUALITIES
		REFERENCES
	CHAPTER ELEVEN Anthropologies of the Hebrew Bible JAN DIETRICH
		HUMAN ABILITIES AND DUTIES – LIMINAL ANTHROPOLOGIES
		HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS – SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGIES
		MODES OF THINKING IN THE HEBREW BIBLE – ANCIENT EPISTEMOLOGIES
		CONCLUSIONS
		REFERENCES
	CHAPTER TWELVE Honour, shame and other social values in the Hebrew Bible PHILIP F. ESLER
		VALUES IN THE ISRAELITE SOCIAL SYSTEM
		HONOUR AND SHAME: THE HISTORY OF THE DISCUSSION
		HONOUR AND SHAME LANGUAGE IN THE HEBREW BIBLE: ISAIAH AS A TEST CASE
		ASCRIBED AND ACQUIRED HONOUR IN ANCIENT ISRAEL
		SOCIAL PRACTICES PRODUCTIVE OF SHAME
		HONOUR AND SHAME IN SPECIFIC TEXTS IN THE HEBREW BIBLE
		OTHER SOCIAL VALUES IN THE HEBREW BIBLE
		CONCLUSION
		REFERENCES
	CHAPTER THIRTEEN For Moses ‘Had Indeed Married a Cushite Wife’: Metaphors, power and ethnicity in numbers 12 KATHERINE E. SOUTHWOOD
		REFERENCES
	CHAPTER FOURTEEN Asymmetrical reciprocal exchange in the Book of Jonah JO-MARÍ SCHÄDER
		INTRODUCTION
		SAHLINS’S MODEL OF RECIPROCAL EXCHANGE
		A MODIFICATION OF SAHLINS’S MODEL
		ASYMMETRICAL RECIPROCITY AND THE HEBREW BIBLE
		AN INTRODUCTION TO THE BOOK OF JONAH
		ASYMMETRICAL RECIPROCAL EXCHANGE IN THE BOOK OF JONAH
		SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION
		REFERENCES
	CHAPTER FIFTEEN Neither divide nor continuum Orality and literacy in the Hebrew Bible ROBERT D. MILLER II
		NARRATIVE
		LAW
		PROPHETS
		PSALMS
		WISDOM LITERATURE
		CONCLUSION
		REFERENCES
	CHAPTER SIXTEEN Telling tales Biblical myth and narrative KAROLIEN VERMEULEN
		MYTH AND NARRATIVE IN BIBLICAL STUDIES: KEY TERMS AND HISTORY
		KEY TOPICS, QUESTIONS AND DEBATES
		CASE STUDY 1: THE FIRST CREATION ACCOUNT AS MYTH AND NARRATIVE
		CASE STUDY 2: PSALM 137 AS MYTH AND NARRATIVE
		REFERENCES
	CHAPTER SEVENTEEN A social anthropology of biblical memory NIELS PETER LEMCHE
		THE TWILIGHT OF HISTORY AND THE DAWN OF MEMORY
		HISTORY, MEMORY, COLLECTIVE MEMORY, SOCIAL MEMORY, CULTURAL MEMORY: GETTING IT RIGHT
		CULTURAL MEMORY AND THE BIBLE
		IN CONCLUSION
		REFERENCES
	CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Acts that work, texts that work Ritual in the Hebrew Bible ANNE KATRINE DE HEMMER GUDME
		INTRODUCTION
		RITUAL AND RITUAL STUDIES
		RITUAL IN THE HEBREW BIBLE
		DOING THINGS WITH TEARS: PETITIONARY MOURNING IN THE HEBREW BIBLE
		RITUAL TRANSFORMATION: THE FEMALE PRISONER OF WAR IN DEUT. 21.12–13
		IN CONCLUSION: TEXTS THAT WORK
		ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
		REFERENCES
	CHAPTER NINETEEN Shaman, preacher or spirit medium? The Israelite prophet in the light of anthropological models LESTER L. GRABBE
		ANTHROPOLOGICAL EXAMPLES
		PROPHETIC THEMES
		IDEAL TYPES AND PROPHET MODELS
		CONCLUSIONS
		REFERENCES
	CHAPTER TWENTY The anthropology of food in ancient Israel CYNTHIA SHAFER-ELLIOTT
		TOOLS FOR THE TASK
		THE ISRAELITE HOUSEHOLD
		FOODWAYS IN ANCIENT ISRAEL
		SUMMARY
		REFERENCES
	CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE The anthropology of death in ancient Israel KRISTINE HENRIKSEN GARROWAY
		THE DYING BODY
		FUNERARY RITES, MORTUARY RITES, AND CULTS OF THE DEAD
		BURIAL AND POST-MORTEM CARE
		DEATH IN THE HEBREW BIBLE
		THE DYING BODY IN THE HEBREW BIBLE
		FUNERARY RITES, MORTUARY RITES AND CULTS OF THE DEAD
		BURIAL AND POST-MORTEM CARE: GATHERED TO THE ANCESTORS
		MEMORIALIZING THE DEAD IN ANCIENT ISRAEL
		CONCLUSION
		REFERENCES
	CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO Spatiality and territoriality Power over land and power over people STEPHEN C. RUSSELL
		INTRODUCTION
		MAX GLUCKMAN
		EDMUND LEACH
		CAROLINE HUMPHREY
		KATHERINE VERDERY
		READING THE STORY OF NABOTH’S VINEYARD
		REFERENCES
	CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE The anthropology of iconography in ancient Palestine ANGELIKA BERLEJUNG
		INTRODUCTION
		HOMO PICTOR AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL PICTORIAL THEORIES
		PICTORIAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL CONCEPTS
		CONCLUSION
		REFERENCES
INDEX OF SOURCES
INDEX OF AUTHORS