Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 122, No. 5, 1978) PDF Download

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Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422370896
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Languages : en
Pages : 138

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Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422370865
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Languages : en
Pages : 90

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Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422370889
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Languages : en
Pages : 108

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Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422370858
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Pages : 76

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Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422370902
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Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422370780
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Pages : 92

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Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422370827
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Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422370803
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Author: Natan Levy
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1003804500
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 219

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This book invites a close textual encounter with the first 11 chapters of Genesis as an intimate drama of marginalised peoples wrestling with the rise of the world’s first grain states in the Mesopotamian alluvium. The initial 11 chapters of Genesis are often considered discordant and fragmentary, despite being a story of beginnings within the context of the Bible. Readers discover how these formative chapters cohere as a cross-generational account of peoples grappling with the hegemonic spread of domesticated grain production and the concomitant rise of the pristine states of Mesopotamia. The book reveals how key episodes from the Genesis narrative reflect major societal revolutions of the Neolithic period in Mesopotamia through a three-fold hermeneutical method: literary analysis of the Bible and contemporary cuneiform texts; modern scholarship from archaeological, anthropological, ecological, and historical sources; and relevant exegesis from the Second Temple and rabbinical era. These three strands entwine to recount a generally sequential story of the earliest archaic states as narrated by non-elites at the margins of these emerging state spaces. The Dawn of Agriculture and the Earliest States in Genesis 1–11 provides a fascinating reading of the first 11 chapters of Genesis, appealing to students and scholars of the Hebrew Bible and the Near East, as well as those working on ecological injustice from a religious vantage point.

Author: Caterina Guenzi
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438482035
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 322

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Astrologers play an important role in Indian society, but there are very few studies on their social identity and professional practices. Based on extensive fieldwork carried out in the city of Banaras, Words of Destiny shows how the Brahmanical scholarly tradition of astral sciences (jyotiḥśāstra) described in Sanskrit literature and taught at universities has been adapted and reformulated to meet the needs and questions of educated middle and upper classes in urban India: How to get a career promotion? How to choose the most suitable field of study for children? When is the best moment to move into a new house? The study of astrology challenges ready-made assumptions about the boundaries between "science" and "superstition," "rationality" and "magic." Rather than judging the validity of astrology as a knowledge system, Caterina Guenzi explores astrological counseling as a social practice and how it "works from within" for both astrologers and their clients. She examines the points of view of those who use astrology either as a way of earning their living or as a means through which to solve problems and make decisions, concluding that, because astrology combines mathematical calculations and astronomical observations with ritual practices, it provides educated urban families with an idiom through which modern science and devotional Hinduism can be subsumed.