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OverviewCognitive Perspectives on Israelite Identity breaks new ground in the study of ethnic identity in the ancient world through the articulation of an explicitly cognitive perspective. In presenting a view of ethnicity as an epistemological rather than an ontological entity, this work seeks to correct the pronounced tendency towards ‘analytical groupism' in the academic literature. Challenging what Pierre Bourdieu has called ‘our primary inclination to think the world in a substantialist manner,' this study seeks to break with the vernacular categories and ‘commonsense primordialisms' encoded within the Biblical texts, whilst at the same time accounting for their tenacious hold on our social and political imagination. It is the recognition of the performative and reifying potential of these categories of ethno-political practice that disqualifies their appropriation as categories of social analysis. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Dr. Dermot Anthony NestorPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: T.& T.Clark Ltd Weight: 0.413kg ISBN: 9780567688354ISBN 10: 0567688356 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 18 April 2019 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviewsThis is clearly an important text, shrewdly perceptive in content, informative in every detail, and offering a new perspective for sociological investigation of the biblical material that would be of interest to biblical scholars with an interest in ethnicity and Sitz im Leben. -- Reviews in Religion & Theology Author InformationDr. Nestor is Lecturer in Old Testament studies at Australian Catholic University in Sydney. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |