Cognitive Science and Ancient Israelite Religion: New Perspectives on Texts, Artifacts, and Culture

ISBN-13: 9781108487788 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 300 str.

Atlanta) Maiden Brett E. (Emory University

Opis

Recent tools and findings from the cognitive sciences illuminate religious thought and behaviour in ancient Israel and the Bible. Primarily intended for scholars of the Bible and religion, it is also relevant to cognitive scientists, researchers, and graduate students interested in the intersection of cognition and culture.

Recenzje

'Maiden's monograph is an important step in the present early phase of the development of the cognitive study of the Bible.' Joachim Schaper, Vetus Testamentum 71

Spis treści

1. Intuitive and Reflective Cognition, Optimal and Costly Religion; 2. Rethinking the Popular/Official Religion Dichotomy; 3. Deuteronomic Theology as Cognitively Costly Religion; 4. Counterintuitive Mischwesen: Hybrid Creatures in Syro-Palestinian Iconography and Cognition; 5. On Artifacts and Agency: The Mesopotamian MĪS PÎ Ritual, Biblical Idol Polemics, and Belief in Cult Statues; 6. Ritual and Cognition in the day of Atonement Ritual in Leviticus; 7. Conclusion; Bibliography.