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Reading the Sacred Scriptures: From Oral Tradition to Written Documents and their Reception book cover

1st Edition

Reading the Sacred Scriptures From Oral Tradition to Written Documents and their Reception

Edited By Fiachra Long, Siobhán Dowling Long Copyright 2018
324 Pages
by Routledge

324 Pages
by Routledge

324 Pages
by Routledge
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Reading the Sacred Scriptures: From Oral Tradition to Written Documents and their Reception examines how the scriptures came to be written and how their authority has been constructed and reinforced over time. Highlighting the measures taken to safeguard the stability of oral accounts, this book demonstrates the care of religious communities to maintain with reverence their assembled parchments... Read more

List of Figures

List of Contributors

Preface

Fiachra Long and Siobhán Dowling Long

Acknowledgments

  1. The hermeneutic task

    2. Fiachra Long

    Part 1

  2. Zoroastrian narrative: from Avesta to the Book of Kings

    3. P. Oktor Skjaervø

  3. How the Hebrew Bible came to be

    4. Carmel McCarthy

  4. Mishnah and midrash as process: the evolution of post-biblical Jewish Scriptures

    5. Rabbi Stephen Wylen

  5. How the early Christians read the Hebrew Scriptures

    6. Seán Freyne

  6. Reading the Sacred Scriptures: some evidence from early Christian Ireland

    7. Thomas O’Loughlin

  7. Reading the Song of Songs: a Jewish and Christian love affair

    8. Margaret Daly-Denton

  8. Mis-reading the Qur’ān: a non-Muslim pitfall?

    9. Jonathan Kearney

  9. Modern approaches to the Qur’ān

    10. Oliver Scharbrodt

  10. The reading of Scripture: A Bahá’i approach

    11. Moojan Momen

    Part 2

  11. Hinduism and its basic texts: the Vedas, Upanishads, Epics and Puranas

    12. Roshen Dalal

  12. The Buddhist Reading of  Scripture

    13. John D’Arcy May

  13. Reading the Scripture from the Sikh tradition: The Guru Granth Sahib

    14. Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh

  14. Confucianism and its texts

    15. Lee Rainey

  15. The Daodejing as a sacred text

    16. Ronnie Littlejohn

  16. Sacred Texts of the Shinto tradition: historical sources of myth and ritual

    17. Stuart D. B. Picken

    Part 3

  17. The Book of Isaiah and its readers: the exegetical value of reception history

    18. John F. A. Sawyer

  18. The madness of King Saul: an interpretation of I Samuel 9–31 in music

    19. Siobhán Dowling Long

  19. Parallel narrative methods: Ramayana in the arts of Southeast Asia

Jukka O. Miettinen

Biography

 Fiachra Long is a philosopher and Senior Lecturer in Education at University College Cork where he is Head of School.

Siobhán Dowling Long is a Lecturer in Education at University College Cork.

 

"The accessible and erudite, thought-through chapters of this book open up the foundational scriptures of the world religions and illumine their history of effects in the practices and self-understandings of their own traditions, and in their encounter with other religions and cultures. A first-class, thorough and original book for teaching and learning about the varied ways in which religions relate to their foundational scriptures, bringing together experts on these texts and their hermeneutics in different eras."

- Maureen Junker-Kenny, Trinity College, Ireland

"A nice collection of essays bound together by the common interest in hermeneutics as well as by the variety of topics and traditions presented that leads one to ponder on diversity and unity in reading sacred literature."

- J. Verheyden, Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses

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