| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 298 pages) |
| Series |
Society for Old Testament study monograph series |
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Monograph series (Society for Old Testament Study)
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Intuitive and Reflective Cognition, Optimal and Costly Religion -- Cognitive Avenues in the Study of Israelite Religion -- Dual-Processing Models of Human Cognition -- Cognitively Optimal and Costly Religion -- The Problem of Theological Incorrectness -- Cognitively Optimal and Costly Aspects of Ancient Israelite Religion: A Road Map -- 2 Rethinking the Popular-Official Religion Dichotomy -- Introduction |
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A Tale of Two Religions: Popular vs. Official -- Religion of the Teeming Masses -- The Popular-Official Religion Paradigm -- Non-overlapping Magisteria? -- A New Framework: Optimal and Costly Religions -- The Naturalness of Supernatural Agency -- Theoretical Implications for Israelite Religion -- Gods and Ancestors: Continuity across Official and Domestic Settings -- 3 Deuteronomic Theology as Cognitively Costly Religion -- Introduction -- Criteria for Cognitively Costly Religion -- History, Historicity, and the Deuteronomic Reforms -- The Cost of the Deuteronomic Name Theology -- The Texts |
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Interpreting the Name Theology -- Name Theology and Cognition -- Textual Tensions as Theological Incorrectness -- The Cost of Cult Centralization -- The Texts -- Centralization and Cognition -- The Cost of Aniconic Worship -- The Texts -- Aniconism and Cognition -- Deuteronomic Theology and the Doctrinal Mode of Religiosity -- 4 Counterintuitive Mischwesen: Hybrid Creatures in Syro-Palestinian Iconography and Cognition -- Introduction -- Infectious Ideas and a Recipe for Religious Concepts -- Cultural Epidemiology -- Minimal Counterintuitiveness |
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Testing the Theory: Possibilities and Limitations -- Hybrid Creatures in Iconography -- On Detecting Counterintuitiveness -- Winged Anthropomorphic Figures -- Winged Animal-Headed Figures -- Winged Human-Headed Sphinxes -- Hybrid Demons: Pazuzu and Lamastu -- General Discussion -- Appendix: Quantitative Analysis -- Avigad and Sass, Corpus of West Semitic Stamp Seals -- Keel, Corpus der Stempelsiegel-Amulette aus Palästina/Israel -- 5 On Artifacts and Agency: The Mesopotamian Mis Pî Ritual, Biblical Idol Polemics, and Belief in Cult Statues -- Introduction -- Cult Statues and Intuitive Ontology |
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Enlivening Divine Agents: The Mis Pî Ritual -- Implicit vs. Explicit Concepts and the Nature of ''Belief'' -- Biblical Anti-idol Polemics and the ''Marduk Problem'' -- Concluding Remarks -- 6 Ritual and Cognition in Leviticus 16 and the Day of Atonement Ritual -- Introduction -- Cognitive Approaches to Ritual -- McCauley and Lawson: Ritual Form -- Whitehouse: Divergent Modes of Religiosity -- Boyer and Liénard: Hazard-Precaution Systems -- Cognitive Resource Depletion -- Does It Work? Evaluating Ritual Efficacy -- Applying Cognitive Insights -- Walking through Leviticus 16 |
| Summary |
"In this book, Brett Maiden employs the tools, research, and theories from the cognitive science of religion to explore religious thought and behavior in ancient Israel. His study focuses on a key set of distinctions between intuitive and reflective types of cognitive processing, implicit and explicit concepts, and cognitively optimal and costly religious traditions. Through a series of case studies, Maiden examines a range of topics including popular and official religion, Deuteronomic theology, hybrid monsters in ancient iconography, divine cult statues in ancient Mesopotamia and the biblical idol polemics, and the Day of Atonement ritual in Leviticus 16. The range of media, including ancient texts, art, and archaeological data from ancient Israel, as well theoretical perspectives demonstrates how a dialogue between biblical scholars and cognitive researchers can be fostered"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 20, 2020) |
| SUBJECT |
Bible. Old Testament -- Theology
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Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85013769
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Bible. Old Testament fast |
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Judaism -- History -- To 70 A.D.
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Cognitive science.
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Jews -- History -- To 586 B.C.
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Cognitive science
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Jews
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Judaism
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Religion
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Theology
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Israel -- Religion
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Middle East -- Religion
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Israel
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Middle East
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2020013017 |
| ISBN |
9781108767972 |
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1108767974 |
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