The Old Testament:
Social Sciences & Social Description
K. C. Hanson
Fortress Press
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55440-1209
© 1998
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FESTSCHRIFTEN & OTHER
COLLECTIONS
(Note: An asterisk [*] after the number of articles indicates that ALL of
the articles are listed below under the "ARTICLES" heading)
Carter, Charles E. and Carol L. Meyers, eds. Community, Identity, and
Ideology: Social Science Approaches to the Hebrew Bible. Sources for
Biblical and Theological Study, 6. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns,
1996. [24 articles*]
Chalcraft, D. J., ed. Social Scientific Old Testament Criticism.
Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1997.
Clements, R. E. The World of Ancient Israel: Sociological,
Anthropological and Political Perspectives. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge
Univ. Press, 1989. [18 articles*]
Coote, Robert B., ed. Elijah and Elisha in Socioliterary
Perspective. Atlanta: Scholars, 1992. [? articles]
Culley, Robert C. and Thomas W. Overholt, eds. Semeia 21:
Anthropological Perspectives on Old Testament Prophecy. Chico, CA:
Scholars, 1981[82]. [12 articles*]
Freedman, David Noel and David Frank Graf, eds. Palestine in
Transition: The Emergence of Ancient Israel. The Social World of
Biblical Antiquity, 2. Sheffield: Almond, 1983. [5 articles]
Gottwald, Norman K. The Hebrew Bible in its Social World and in
Ours. Semeia Studies. Atlanta: Scholars, 1993. [29 articles*]
Gottwald, Norman K., ed. Semeia 37: Social Scientific Criticism
of the Hebrew Bible and Its Social World: The Israelite Monarchy.
Decatur, GA: Scholars, 1986. [5 articles*]
Hooke, S. H., ed. The Labyrinth: Further Studies in the Relation
Between Myth and Ritual in the Ancient World. London: SPCK,
1935.
Hooke, S. H., ed. Myth, Ritual, and Kingship: Essays on the Theory and
Practice of Kingship in the Ancient Near East and in Israel. Oxford:
Clarendon, 1958.
Hooke, S. H.. The Siege Perilous: Essays in Biblical Anthropology and
Kindred Subjects. London: SCM, 1956. [19 articles]
Jobling, David; Peggy L. Day; Gerald T. Sheppard, eds. The Bible and
the Politics of Exegesis: Essays in Honor of Norman K. Gottwald on His
Sixty-fifth Birthday. Cleveland, OH: Pilgrim, 1991. [21 articles]
Lang, Bernhard, ed. Anthropological Approaches to the Old
Testament. Issues in Religion and Theology, 8. Philadelphia: Fortress,
1985. [11 articles*]
Leach, Edmund. Genesis as Myth and Other Essays. London: J.
Cape, 1969.
Leach, Edmund and Alan D. Aycock. Structuralist Interpretations of
Biblical Myth. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1983.
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Overholt, Thomas W. Prophecy in Cross-Cultural Perspective.
Atlanta: Scholars, 1986.
Perdue, Leo G., et al. Families in Ancient Israel. The Family,
Religion, and Culture. Louisville: Westminster/John Knox, 1997. [5
articles*]
Pilch, John J. and Bruce J. Malina, eds. Biblical Social Values
and Their Meaning: A Handbook. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1993.
ARTICLES
Aartun, Kjell. "Studien zum Gesetz über den grossen
Versöhnungstag Lv 16 mit Varianten: Ein ritualgeschichtlicher
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Anderson, Francis I. "Israelite Kinship Terminology and Social Structure."
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Anderson, Francis I. "The Socio-Juridical Background of the
Naboth-Incident." Journal of Biblical Literature 85
(1966):46-57.
Andreason, Niels-Erik. "The Role of the Queen Mother in Israelite
Society." Catholic Biblical Quarterly 45 (1983):179-94.
Andriolo, Karin A. "A Structural Analysis of Genealogy and World View in
the Old Testament." American Anthropologist 75 (1973):1657-69.
Archer, Léonie J. "The Role of Jewish Women in the Religion,
Ritual and Cult of Graeco-Roman Palestine." In Images of Women in
Antiquity, 273-87. A. Cameron and A. Kuhrt, eds. Detroit: Wayne State
Univ. Press, 1983.
Astour, Michael C. "Political and Cosmic Symbolism in Genesis 14 and Its
Babylonian Sources." In Biblical Motifs: Origins and
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Bach, Daniel. "Rite et parole dans l'Ancien Testament: nouveaux
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tôdâh." Vetus Testamentum 28 (1978):10-19.
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Benjamin, Don C. "Israel's God: Mother and Midwife." Biblical
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Benjamin, Don C. "An Anthropology of Prophecy." Biblical Theology
Bulletin 21 (1991):135-44.
Bergant, Dianne. "An Anthropological Approach to Biblical Interpretation:
The Passover Supper in Exodus 12:1-20 as a Case Study." Semeia 67
(1994[95]):43-62.
Bergant, Dianne. "Is the Biblical Worldview Anthropocentric?" New
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Bergant, Dianne. "'My Beloved Is Mine and I Am His' (Song 2:16): The Song
of Songs and Honor and Shame." Semeia 68 (1994[96]):23-40.
Bergen, Wesley. "The Prophetic Alternative: Elisha and the Israelite
Monarchy." In Elijah and Elisha in Socioliterary Perspective,
127-37. R. B. Coote, ed. Atlanta: Scholars, 1992.
Berger, Peter. "Charisma and Religious Innovation: The Social Location
of Israelite Prophecy." American Sociological Review 28
(1963):940-50.
Berlinerblau, J. "The 'Popular Religion' Paradigm in Old Testament
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Berquist, Jon. "Reading Difference in Isaiah 56-66: the Interplay of
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of Religion 7.1 (1995):23-42.
Berquist, Jon L. "The Social Setting of Malachi." Biblical Theology
Bulletin 19 (1989):121-26.
Bledstein, Adrien Janis. "Was Habbirya a Healing Ritual Performed
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Blenkinsopp, Joseph. "The Family in First Temple Israel." In Families
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Bloch-Smith, Elizabeth M. "The Cult of the Dead in Judah: Interpreting
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12 (1977):278-92.
Brichto, H. C. "Kin, Cult and Afterlife—A Biblical Complex."
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Brichto, Herbert Chanan. "On Slaughter, Sacrifice, Blood and Atonement."
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Brown, John Pairman. "The Sacrificial Cult and Its Critique in Greek and
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Carroll, Michael P. "Leach, Genesis, and Structural Analysis."
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Carroll, Michael P. "One More Time: Leviticus Revisited." Archives
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Carroll, Robert P. "Prophecy and Society." In The World of
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Collins, John J. "The Meaning of Sacrifice: A Contrast of Methods."
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Coote, Robert B. and Keith W. Whitelam. "The Emergence of Israel: Social
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Cornelius, I. "Genesis XXVI and Mari: The Dispute Over Water and the
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Daly, Robert J. "The Power of Sacrifice in Ancient Judaism and
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Davies, M. L. "Levitical Leprosy: Uncleanness and the Psyche."
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de Ward, E. F. "Superstition and Judgment: Archaic Methods of Finding a
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Dutcher-Walls, Patricia. "The Social Location of the Deuteronomists: A
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