Reading the Sacred Scriptures

From Oral Tradition to Written Documents and their Reception

Fiachra Long, Siobhán Dowling Long (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

306 Seiten

2017
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-68129-3 (ISBN)

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Reading the Sacred Scriptures: From Oral Tradition to Written Documents and their Reception examines how the scriptures came to be written and how their authority has been constructed and reinforced over time. Highlighting the measures taken to safeguard the stability of oral accounts, this book demonstrates the care of religious communities to maintain with reverence their assembled parchments and scrolls. Written by leading experts in their fields, this collection chronicles the development of the scriptures from oral tradition to written documents and their reception. It features notable essays on the scriptures of Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Confucianism, Daoism, Christianity, Islam, Sikhism, Shinto, and Baha'i.

This book will fascinate anyone interested in the belief systems of the featured religions. It offers an ideal starting point from which undergraduate and postgraduate religious studies students, teachers and lecturers can explore religious traditions from their historical beginnings.

Fiachra Long is a philosopher and Senior Lecturer in Education at University College Cork where he is Head of School. Siobhán Dowling Long is a Lecturer in Education at University College Cork.

List of Figures

List of Contributors

Preface

Fiachra Long and Siobhán Dowling Long

Acknowledgments

The hermeneutic task
Fiachra Long

Part 1

Zoroastrian narrative: from Avesta to the Book of Kings
P. Oktor Skjaervø

How the Hebrew Bible came to be
Carmel McCarthy

Mishnah and midrash as process: the evolution of post-biblical Jewish Scriptures
Rabbi Stephen Wylen

How the early Christians read the Hebrew Scriptures
Seán Freyne

Reading the Sacred Scriptures: some evidence from early Christian Ireland
Thomas O’Loughlin

Reading the Song of Songs: a Jewish and Christian love affair
Margaret Daly-Denton

Mis-reading the Qur’ān: a non-Muslim pitfall?
Jonathan Kearney

Modern approaches to the Qur’ān
Oliver Scharbrodt

The reading of Scripture: A Bahá’i approach
Moojan Momen

Part 2

Hinduism and its basic texts: the Vedas, Upanishads, Epics and Puranas
Roshen Dalal

The Buddhist Reading of Scripture
John D’Arcy May

Reading the Scripture from the Sikh tradition: The Guru Granth Sahib
Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh

Confucianism and its texts
Lee Rainey

The Daodejing as a sacred text
Ronnie Littlejohn

Sacred Texts of the Shinto tradition: historical sources of myth and ritual
Stuart D. B. Picken

Part 3

The Book of Isaiah and its readers: the exegetical value of reception history
John F. A. Sawyer

The madness of King Saul: an interpretation of I Samuel 9–31 in music
Siobhán Dowling Long

Parallel narrative methods: Ramayana in the arts of Southeast Asia

Jukka O. Miettinen

Erscheinungsdatum	24.05.2016
Zusatzinfo	2 Tables, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	612 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
ISBN-10	1-138-68129-6 / 1138681296
ISBN-13	978-1-138-68129-3 / 9781138681293
Zustand	Neuware