Samuel L. Boyd

Broschiertes Buch

Babel

Political Rhetoric of a Confused Legacy

Beschreibung

In Babel: Political Rhetoric of a Confused Legacy, Boyd shows how one of the most familiar stories from the Bible, the Tower of Babel, has been misinterpreted for millennia. He offers a new interpretation, and also examines how the story has shaped politics and intellectual culture to the current day.

Autor

Samuel L. Boyd is an associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies and in the Program in Jewish Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. He studies the Hebrew Bible and the historical contexts of its production in the ancient Near East. Boyd also researches the reception of the Bible in religious communities from antiquity to the present. He has authored numerous articles in academic journals as well as popular writings in venues such as theconversation.com. His first book, Language Contact, Colonial Administration, and the Construction of Identity in Ancient Israel , was published by Brill in the Harvard Semitic Monographs series.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: 1517 Media
• Seitenzahl: 325
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 528g
• ISBN-13: 9781506480671
• ISBN-10: 1506480675
• Artikelnr.: 64543539