Religion and Bible

• Autor: Smith, Jonathan Z.
• Assuntos: Annual meetings ; Bible ; Biblical studies ; Buddhism ; Christianity ; Comparative studies ; Cuneiform ; Encyclopedias ; Islam ; Judaism ; Literature ; New Testament ; Religion ; Religious literature ; Sacred texts ; Scholars ; Science of religion ; Society ; Theology
• É parte de: Journal of Biblical literature, 2009-04, Vol.128 (1), p.5-27
• Descrição: [...] had we met together with the AAR in Chicago this year, I would have begun by referring not to one of my own past appearances before this Society but rather to the 1936 publication, in the Journal of Biblical Literature, of a brief article, "The Interpretation of Sacred Books," by the intellectual founder of the History of Religions field at the University of Chicago, Joachim Wach, in order to stress the deep interrelations of the two enterprises, the study of religion and biblical studies.2 It is, no doubt, a reflection of our recent 'time of troubles' that I find it, now, necessary to state at the outset that nothing in that lecture- or in this one, for that matter - was (or is) intended to imply that the sorts of biblical scholarship represented by the SBL were alien to the sorts of study of religion represented by the AAR. Influenced by the emergent, rapidly growing field of Akkadian studies, Jastrow shifted his area of research to Babylonian and Assyrian materials, which led to his career-long position as professor of Semitics and of Assyriology at the University of Pennsylvania, editing cuneiform texts; authoring major handbooks on the religions of Babylonia and Assyria; writing technical treatments of particular phenomena such as liver omens; producing comparative studies of Babylonian and Israelitic traditions; as well as editing the Bible section of the classic 1916 Jewish Encyclopedia and writing commentaries on Job, Qoheleth, and Song of Songs.
  
• Editor: Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature
  
• Idioma: Inglês