Reading with Anthropology

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 240 pages
• Published by: Paternoster January 1, 2006
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 1842273752
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-1842273753
• Book Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Weighs: 12.6 ounces

Product Description
The social science of anthropology has been used in recent years to open up fascinating new ways of understanding biblical texts. In this fresh and stimulating study, Louise Lawrence argues that anthropology and theology need not be enemies but can become constructive dialogue partners in the search to understand the Bible better.

Like a museum curator she guides readers around seven anthropological "exhibits" where selected biblical texts are analysed with resources from anthropology. Themes include spiritinspired religious healers, power and violence, sex and gender, body and emotion, and social memory. The dialogue opened up here between biblical books and the study of other cultures promises fresh insights on wellknown texts. Reading with Anthropology will be of equal interest to biblical scholars seeking a way in to the use of anthropology in their discipline and to anthropologists wishing to better appreciate biblical cultures.

About The Author
Louise J. Lawrence is Lecturer in New Testament Studies at the University of Glasgow.