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Reading the sacred scriptures : from oral tradition to written documents and their reception / edited by Fiachra Long and Siobhán Dowling Long.

Contributor(s): Long, Fiachra [editor.] | Long, Siobhan [editor.]
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1 [edition]Description: xvi, 306 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781138681293; 1138681296; 9781138681309; 113868130XSubject(s): Sacred books -- History and criticismLOC classification: BL71 | .R433 2018Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The hermeneutic task / Fiachra Long -- Zoroastrian narrative : from the Avesta to the Book of Kings / P. Oktor Skjærvø -- How the Hebrew Bible came to be / Carmel McCarthy -- Mishnah and Midrash as process : the evolution of post-biblical Jewish scriptures / Rabbi Stephen Wylen -- How the early Christians read the Hebrew scriptures / Seán Freyne -- Reading the sacred scriptures : some evidence from early Christian Ireland / Thomas O'Loughlin -- Reading the Song of Songs : a Jewish and Christian love affair / Margaret Daly-Denton -- Mis-reading the Qur'ān : a non-Muslim pitfall? / Jonathan Kearney -- Modern approaches to the Qur'ān / Oliver Scharbrodt -- The reading of scripture : a Baha'i approach / Moojan Momen -- Hinduism and its basic texts : the Vedas, Upanishads, Epics and Puranas / Roshen Dalal -- The Buddhist reading of scripture / John D'Arcy May -- Reading the scripture from the Sikh tradition : the Guru Granth Sahib / Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh -- Confucianism and its texts / Lee Dian Rainey -- The Daodejing as a sacred text / Ronnie Littlejohn -- Sacred texts of the Shinto tradition : historical sources of myth and ritual / Stuart D.B. Picken -- The Book of Isaiah and its readers : the exegetical value of reception history / John F.A. Sawyer -- The madness of King Saul : an interpretation of I Samuel 9-31 in music / Siobhán Dowling Long -- Parallel narrative methods : Ramayana in the arts of Southeast Asia / Jukka O. Miettinen.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The hermeneutic task / Fiachra Long -- Zoroastrian narrative : from the Avesta to the Book of Kings / P. Oktor Skjærvø -- How the Hebrew Bible came to be / Carmel McCarthy -- Mishnah and Midrash as process : the evolution of post-biblical Jewish scriptures / Rabbi Stephen Wylen -- How the early Christians read the Hebrew scriptures / Seán Freyne -- Reading the sacred scriptures : some evidence from early Christian Ireland / Thomas O'Loughlin -- Reading the Song of Songs : a Jewish and Christian love affair / Margaret Daly-Denton -- Mis-reading the Qur'ān : a non-Muslim pitfall? / Jonathan Kearney -- Modern approaches to the Qur'ān / Oliver Scharbrodt -- The reading of scripture : a Baha'i approach / Moojan Momen -- Hinduism and its basic texts : the Vedas, Upanishads, Epics and Puranas / Roshen Dalal -- The Buddhist reading of scripture / John D'Arcy May -- Reading the scripture from the Sikh tradition : the Guru Granth Sahib / Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh -- Confucianism and its texts / Lee Dian Rainey -- The Daodejing as a sacred text / Ronnie Littlejohn -- Sacred texts of the Shinto tradition : historical sources of myth and ritual / Stuart D.B. Picken -- The Book of Isaiah and its readers : the exegetical value of reception history / John F.A. Sawyer -- The madness of King Saul : an interpretation of I Samuel 9-31 in music / Siobhán Dowling Long -- Parallel narrative methods : Ramayana in the arts of Southeast Asia / Jukka O. Miettinen.

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