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Reframing Biblical Studies
2009
Overview
Until recently, biblical studies and studies of the written and
material culture of the ancient Near East have been fragmented,
governed by experts who are confined within their individual
disciplines' methodological frameworks and patterns of thinking.
The consequence has been that, at present, concepts and the
terminology for examining the interaction of textual and
historical complexes are lacking.
However, we can learn from the cognitive sciences. Until the end
of the 1980s, neurophysiologists, psychologists, pediatricians, and
linguists worked in complete isolation from one another on various
aspects of the human brain. Then, beginning in the 1990s, one group
began to focus on processes in the brain, thereby requiring that
cell biologists, neurologists, psychiatrists, psychologists,
linguists, and other relevant scientists collaborate with each
other. Their investigation revealed that the brain integrates all
kinds of information; if this were not the case, we would not be
able to catch even a glimpse of the brain's processing
activity.
By analogy, van Wolde's proposal for biblical scholarship is to
extend its examination of single elements by studying the
integrative structures that emerge out of the interconnectivity of
the parts. This analysis is based on detailed studies of specific
relationships among data of diverse origins, using language as the
essential device that links and permits expression. This method can
be called a cognitive relational approach .
Van Wolde bases her work on cognitive concepts developed by
Ronald Langacker. With these concepts, biblical scholars will be
able to study emergent cognitive structures that issue from
biblical words and texts in interaction with historical complexes.
Van Wolde presents a method of analysis that biblical scholars can
follow to investigate interactions among words and texts in the
Hebrew Bible, material and nonmaterial culture, and comparative
textual and historical contexts. In a significant portion of the
book, she then exemplifies this method of analysis by applying it
to controversial concepts and passages in the Hebrew Bible (the
crescent moon; the in-law family; the city gate; differentiation
and separation; Genesis 1, 34; Leviticus 18, 20; Numbers 5, 35;
Deuteronomy 21; and Ezekiel 18, 22, 33).
Publisher
Penn State University Press,Pennsylvania State University Press
Subject
ISBN
1575061821, 9781575061825, 1575066203, 9781575066202
