YHWH's divine images: a cognitive approach
My primary target audience with this book is scholars and students—formal and informal—of the Bible and of religion more broadly, as well as cognitive scientists of religion and cognitive linguists. As someone trained in biblical studies but adopting methodologies from the cognitive sciences, I d...
Guardado en:
| Autor principal: | |
|---|---|
| Formato: | Libro |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Society of Biblical Literature
2022
|
| Materias: | |
| Acceso en línea: | https://repositorio.uca.edu.ar/handle/123456789/14974 |
| Aporte de: |
| Sumario: | My primary target audience with this book is scholars and students—formal and
informal—of the Bible and of religion more broadly, as well as cognitive
scientists of religion and cognitive linguists. As someone trained in biblical
studies but adopting methodologies from the cognitive sciences, I don’t believe
I’ll ever fully shake the sense of imposter syndrome from presuming to have
something to say about fields in which I am not a specialist. However, I have been
reassured by many kind and generous scholars from across these fields that that’s
just the nature of interdisciplinary research. I have tried to widen the scope of
accessibility of this book to include interested laypeople, whom I hope can also
find some value in it. I anticipate some readers will approach this book from a
devotional perspective, while others will approach it from a perspective adjacent
to a devotional one, and still others in the absence of any such perspective. Though
I write as a faithful Latter-day Saint, this book is strictly academic, and I have
made a concerted effort to recognize and mitigate the potential influence of any
devotional lenses that may color my methodologies and my readings. There is
certainly no conscious attempt on my part to promote any particular theological
perspective in this book, though I do offer some critiques of the influence on the
scholarship of certain theological sensitivities (including from my own tradition).
Having said that, I suspect there are ways the book will horrify my coreligionists
as well as others who are suspicious that I’m just trying to import Mormonism
wholesale into the Bible. If such criticisms come in from all sides, I’ll consider
that a win.
One of the goals of this book is to begin to disrupt some of the scholarly
conventions that are common to the study of the Hebrew Bible. As a subtle and
yet influential means of structuring power and values, terminology is precisely
one of those conventions. As a result, this book will be somewhat idiosyncratic in
the terms it employs, and I’d like to take the opportunity here to explain myself. I
begin with perhaps the least idiosyncratic terminological choice: I render the
proper name of Israel’s patron deity as YHWH, with the consonants of the
Tetragrammaton in all caps (normally a standard when transcribing unvocalized
names from ancient Southwest Asia)... |
|---|