Brett E. Maiden (Atlanta Emory University)

Cognitive Science and Ancient Israelite Religion

New Perspectives on Texts, Artifacts, and Culture

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Recent tools and findings from the cognitive sciences illuminate religious thought and behaviour in ancient Israel and the Bible. Primarily intended for scholars of the Bible and religion, it is also relevant to cognitive scientists, researchers, and graduate students interested in the intersection of cognition and culture.

Produktdetails

• Society for Old Testament Study Monographs
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 145mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 532g
• ISBN-13: 9781108487788
• ISBN-10: 1108487785
• Artikelnr.: 60015620

Autorenporträt

Brett E. Maiden earned his PhD at Emory University, where he served as a writer a member of the interdisciplinary Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Intuitive and Reflective Cognition, Optimal and Costly Religion
2. Rethinking the Popular/Official Religion Dichotomy
3. Deuteronomic Theology as Cognitively Costly Religion
4. Counterintuitive Mischwesen: Hybrid Creatures in Syro-Palestinian Iconography and Cognition
5. On Artifacts and Agency: The Mesopotamian M¿S PÎ Ritual, Biblical Idol Polemics, and Belief in Cult Statues
6. Ritual and Cognition in the day of Atonement Ritual in Leviticus
7. Conclusion
Bibliography.