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Reading the Sacred Scriptures

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Reading the Sacred Scriptures book

From Oral Tradition to Written Documents and their Reception

Reading the Sacred Scriptures

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Reading the Sacred Scriptures book

From Oral Tradition to Written Documents and their Reception
Edited ByFiachra Long, Siobhán Dowling Long
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2017
eBook Published 14 July 2017
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315545936
Pages 324 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315545936
SubjectsArea Studies, Humanities
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Long, F. (Ed.), Dowling Long, S. (Ed.). (2018). Reading the Sacred Scriptures. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315545936

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 and scrolls. Written by leading experts in their fields, this collection chronicles the development of the scriptures from oral tradition to written documents and their reception. It features notable essays on the scriptures of Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Confucianism, Daoism, Christianity, Islam, Sikhism, Shinto, and Baha'i.

This book will fascinate anyone interested in the belief systems of the featured religions. It offers an ideal starting point from which undergraduate and postgraduate religious studies students, teachers and lecturers can explore religious traditions from their historical beginnings.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|17 pages

The hermeneutic task

WithFiachra Long

part i|137 pages

chapter 2|18 pages

Zoroastrian narrative

From the Avesta to the Book of Kings
WithP. Oktor Skjærvø

chapter 3|14 pages

How the Hebrew Bible came to be

WithCarmel McCarthy

chapter 4|15 pages

Mishnah and midrash as process

The evolution of post-biblical Jewish Scriptures
WithRabbi Stephen Wylen

chapter 5|13 pages

How the early Christians read the Hebrew Scriptures

WithSeán Freyne

chapter 6|17 pages

Reading the Sacred Scriptures

Some evidence from early Christian Ireland
WithThomas O’Loughlin

chapter 7|11 pages

Reading The Song of Songs

A Jewish and Christian love affair
WithMargaret Daly-Denton

chapter 8|13 pages

Mis-reading the Qur’aˉn

A non-Muslim pitfall?
WithJonathan Kearney

chapter 9|17 pages

Modern approaches to the Qur’aˉn

WithOliver Scharbrodt

chapter 10|19 pages

The reading of Scripture

A Baha’i approach
WithMoojan Momen

part ii|91 pages

chapter 11|14 pages

Hinduism and its basic texts

The Vedas, Upanishads, Epics and Puranas
WithRoshen Dalal

chapter 12|12 pages

The Buddhist reading of Scripture

WithJohn D’Arcy May

chapter 13|17 pages

Reading the Scripture from the Sikh tradition

The Guru Granth Sahib
WithNikky-Guninder Kaur Singh

chapter 14|14 pages

Confucianism and its texts

WithLee Dian Rainey

chapter 15|19 pages

The Daodejing as a sacred text

WithRonnie Littlejohn

chapter 16|15 pages

Sacred texts of the Shinto tradition

Historical sources of myth and ritual
WithStuart D.B. Picken

part iii|47 pages

chapter 17|14 pages

The Book of Isaiah and its readers

The exegetical value of reception history
WithJohn F.A. Sawyer

chapter 18|19 pages

The madness of King Saul

An interpretation of I Samuel 9–31 in music
WithSiobhán Dowling Long

chapter 19|14 pages

Parallel narrative methods

Ramayana in the arts of Southeast Asia
WithJukka O. Miettinen
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