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1 paź 2016 · Book PDF Available. Anthropologists and the Bible. October 2016. Authors: Adam Kuper. References (66) Abstract. The anthropology of religion was shaped by – and sought to influence – new...
Adam Kuper. Abstract: The anthropology of religion was shaped by – and sought to influence – new understandings of the scriptures. Maintaining an uneasy, often unacknowledged, usually one-sided dialogue with biblical scholarship, the Victorian anthropologists introduced new comparative perspectives.
Critically reviewing scholarship across history, anthropology, religious studies, and sociology, I characterize evangelical Biblicism as an interpretive tradition mediated by a complex set of sociocultural practices and textual ideologies.
This article argues why anthropology matters, both for Bible reading in general and intercultural theology in particular, and how insights gained can help in understanding and communication of biblical texts.
1. Anthropology – Is presently described as “the scientific study of humans and human behavior and societies in the past and present. Social Anthropology and Cultural Anthropology study the norms and values of societies. Linguistic Anthropology studies how language [evolves and] affects social life. Biological
especially young people are asking the question about the real meaning of life. If man looks for answers at the wrong address, he all too often ends in resignation, revolt or escape into a narcotic society, which cannot endure the reality of life: escaping into alcohol, drugs, in free sex, or other
In Part One of the handbook, ‘Historiographies, Theories and Method’, Chapter 2 (Adam Kuper) surveys the relationships between British social anthropology and the Bible in the formative periods of the discipline; and Chapter 3 (Eveline J. van der Steen) expands the overview focusing on the experience of travelling to the Holy Land in the ...
