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An unsubmitted draft of a chapter from my dissertation that discusses the creation, definition, and study of the concept of religion and why the concept has no analytical value to my dissertation.
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Brian Doak's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months ago
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This paper argues that the practice of description is frequently understood as definition, which is too often precisely prescription. It contends that reduction to necessary and sufficient features is alien to the natural development and use of conceptual categories like religion, and so an alternative approach to description is recommended.
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Daniel McClellan deposited ‘You Will Be Like the Gods’: The Conceptualization of Deity in the Hebrew Bible in Cognitive Perspective on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months ago
This thesis has two primary goals: (1) to analyze the countours and extent of the generic category of deity in the Hebrew Bible, and (2) propose a semantic base for the term. It begins with a description of the fields associated with cognitive theory, and particularly cognitive linguistics. Chapter 2 examines the cognitive origins of notions of…[Read more]
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Daniel McClellan deposited ‘Go Ye and Learn What That Meaneth’: Mercy and the Law in the Old Testament’s Prophetic Literature and in the Gospels on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months ago
This paper examines the conceptualization of mercy, justice, and the law in the prophetic literature’s deployment of the “prophetic critique” and in its deployment by Jesus in the Gospels.
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Christopher B. Hays's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months ago
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Matthew Suriano deposited The Privilege of the Living in Caring for the Dead: A Problem of Reciprocity in the group
Near Eastern Archaeology on Humanities Commons 3 years, 5 months agoWhat was the significance of ancestors in the Hebrew Bible? The question is spurred by Kerry Sonia’s Caring for the Dead, which argues that the cult of dead kin was an accepted practice in the culture of the biblical writers. In building this thesis, Sonia resists an idea popular in scholarship that the Hebrew Bible promotes a negative view of r…[Read more]
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Matthew Suriano deposited The Privilege of the Living in Caring for the Dead: A Problem of Reciprocity in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 5 months agoWhat was the significance of ancestors in the Hebrew Bible? The question is spurred by Kerry Sonia’s Caring for the Dead, which argues that the cult of dead kin was an accepted practice in the culture of the biblical writers. In building this thesis, Sonia resists an idea popular in scholarship that the Hebrew Bible promotes a negative view of r…[Read more]
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Matthew Suriano deposited The Privilege of the Living in Caring for the Dead: A Problem of Reciprocity in the group
Biblical archaeology on Humanities Commons 3 years, 5 months agoWhat was the significance of ancestors in the Hebrew Bible? The question is spurred by Kerry Sonia’s Caring for the Dead, which argues that the cult of dead kin was an accepted practice in the culture of the biblical writers. In building this thesis, Sonia resists an idea popular in scholarship that the Hebrew Bible promotes a negative view of r…[Read more]
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Matthew Suriano deposited The Privilege of the Living in Caring for the Dead: A Problem of Reciprocity in the group
Ancient Near East on Humanities Commons 3 years, 5 months agoWhat was the significance of ancestors in the Hebrew Bible? The question is spurred by Kerry Sonia’s Caring for the Dead, which argues that the cult of dead kin was an accepted practice in the culture of the biblical writers. In building this thesis, Sonia resists an idea popular in scholarship that the Hebrew Bible promotes a negative view of r…[Read more]
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