Rites and rank : hierarchy in biblical representations of cult /
Good and evil, clean and unclean, rich and poor, self and other. The nature and function of such binary oppositions have long intrigued scholars in such fields as philosophy, linguistics, classics, and anthropology. From the opening chapters of Genesis, in which God separates day from night, and Ada...
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| বিন্যাস: | Licensed eBooks |
| ভাষা: | ইংরেজি |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press
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| অনলাইন ব্যবহার করুন: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7t32k |
| সংক্ষিপ্ত: | Good and evil, clean and unclean, rich and poor, self and other. The nature and function of such binary oppositions have long intrigued scholars in such fields as philosophy, linguistics, classics, and anthropology. From the opening chapters of Genesis, in which God separates day from night, and Adam and Eve partake of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, dyadic pairs proliferate throughout the Hebrew Bible. In this groundbreaking work melding critical exegesis and contemporary theory, Saul M. Olyan considers the prevalence of polarities in biblical discourse and expounds their signific. |
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| দৈহিক বর্ননা: | 1 online resource (xii, 190 pages) |
| গ্রন্থ-পঞ্জী: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-174) and index. |
| আইসবিএন: | 1400812879 9781400812875 9780691029481 0691029482 9781400823567 1400823560 |