Frazer's “Folk-Lore in the Old Testament”

1924 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-82
Author(s):  
Henry Preserved Smith
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
Points Of Interest ◽  
History Of Religions ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Comparative Study

Sir James George Frazer is a well known authority on the subject he has made his own, and his voluminous works are familiar to every student of anthropology and the history of religions. The fact that he has put his extensive knowledge at the disposition of the Old Testament student is to be welcomed. This he has done in the works mentioned below, the larger one in three volumes, the smaller one by condensation and omission giving the main points of interest. That the larger work meets a felt want is indicated by the fact that a second printing was called for the year after the first publication, a symptom of the present interest in the comparative study of religions.

Wilhelm Bacher’s Place in the History of Hebrew Linguistics

1977 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aron Dotan
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Critical Measure ◽  
Introductory Article ◽  
History Of Linguistics ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Comparative Study ◽  
Historical Treatment ◽  
Hebrew Linguistics

Summary The comparative study of languages goes back at least as far as to the work of Hebrew grammarians of the 10th century; consequently, medieval Hebrew linguistics should receive more attention within the general history of linguistics than it has generally been given. Wilhelm Bacher’s (1850–1913) role in the study of the history of Hebrew linguistics was decisive; the two recently reprinted volumes, Die Anfänge der hebräischen Grammatik (1895) and Die hebräische Sprachwissenschaft vom 10. bis zum 16. Jahrhundert (1892), constitute important contributions to the field. The extensive bibliography of Bacher added to the reprintings under review supplies an idea of the scope of Bacher’s scholarship in general, and of his contribution to the study of medieval linguistics in particular. The present article surveys this latter aspect of Bacher’s work, covering his text editions and monographic studies. This is concluded up by a chronological overview of all medieval linguists treated by Bacher and a list of his books translated into Hebrew. In the remainder of the article the two reprinted works are evaluated individually, the chronological span and the nature of their approach to the subject matter are compared, and an attempt is made to analyze Bacher’s methods in collecting his material and in preparing it for scholarly presentation. There follows an evaluation of Bacher’s studies in the light of present-day scholarship in the historical treatment of Hebrew linguistics. Finally, critical measure is taken of the introductory article prefaced to the reprint of Bacher’s works.

Description Is Not Explanation: a Methodology of Comparison

1998 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey R. Carter
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Comparative Studies ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
History Of Religions ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Comparative Study ◽  
Logical Types ◽  
Goals And Objectives

AbstractThis essay presents a methodological framework for the comparative study of religion by analyzing academic description and explanation. It demonstrates how these two methods are in fact different forms of comparison with distinct goals and objectives. It further argues that description and explanation are related according to Bertrand Russell's theory of logical types and that successful comparative study adheres to the principles of logical typing. The essay aims to encourage more confident comparative studies in the History of Religions.

scholarly journals The Procedure of the Gortynian Inscription

1893 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 48-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. W. Headlam
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Political Life ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Comparative Study ◽  
Of Greece

I propose in the following article to inquire what can be determined concerning the procedure of the Gortynian Inscription. It is scarcely necessary to insist on the importance of the subject. This is the only document that we have that gives us an authentic record of the earlier stages of Greek law. The history of Greek law is little known; knowledge of it is most valuable for the light that it throws on the social and political life of Greece, and especially because it supplies a most important element in the comparative study of law. The legal side of history can never be neglected with impunity. Even though the Greeks never became such accomplished lawyers as the Romans, their legal and political institutions were closely connected, and our ignorance of their laws often prevents us from understanding their politics.It is however for its relation to the laws of other nations that Greek law deserves chiefly to be studied. Our knowledge of the early legal antiquities of European races is still very limited.

History of the Study of Apocrypha in Early Medieval England

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 13-26
Author(s):  
Brandon W. Hawk
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Medieval England ◽  
Medieval Period ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Early Judaism ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Early English

Literature written in England between about 500 and 1100 CE attests to a wide range of traditions, although it is clear that Christian sources were the most influential. Biblical apocrypha feature prominently across this corpus of literature, as early English authors clearly relied on a range of extra-biblical texts and traditions related to works under the umbrella of what have been called “Old Testament Pseudepigrapha” and “New Testament/Christian Apocrypha." While scholars of pseudepigrapha and apocrypha have long trained their eyes upon literature from the first few centuries of early Judaism and early Christianity, the medieval period has much to offer. This article presents a survey of significant developments and key threads in the history of scholarship on apocrypha in early medieval England. My purpose is not to offer a comprehensive bibliography, but to highlight major studies that have focused on the transmission of specific apocrypha, contributed to knowledge about medieval uses of apocrypha, and shaped the field from the nineteenth century up to the present. Bringing together major publications on the subject presents a striking picture of the state of the field as well as future directions.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marko Geslani
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Royal Power ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Developments ◽  
The Comparative Study ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Indian Religion

The introduction reviews the historiographic problem of the relation between fire sacrifice (yajña) and image worship (pūjā), which have traditionally been seen as opposing ritual structures serving to undergird the distinction of “Vedic” and “Hindu.” Against such an icono- and theocentric approach, it proposes a history of the priesthood in relation to royal power, centering on the relationship between the royal chaplain (purohita) and astrologer (sāṃvatsara) as a crucial, unexplored development in early Indian religion. In order to capture these historical developments, it outlines a method for the comparative study of ritual forms over time.

scholarly journals Breach of Treaties in the Ancient Near East

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-56
Author(s):  
Gábor Sulyok
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Relative Abundance ◽  
Near East ◽  
Ancient Near East ◽  
Persistent Problem ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Abundance And Diversity ◽  
Insight Into

AbstractThe history of the breach of treaties can be traced back to the ancient Near East. The relative abundance and diversity of contemporary sources attest that the breaking of treaty obligations must have been a rather persistent problem, and that such occurrences were regarded as events of utmost importance throughout the Bronze and Iron Ages. The present study strives to demonstrate how peoples of old may have perceived and reacted to the breach of treaties on the basis of selected writings—the Legend of Etana, the Indictment of Madduwatta, the Indictment of Mita, the plague prayers of Mursili and the Old Testament—that provide, beyond the exposition of actual or alleged facts, a deeper insight into the psychological and procedural aspects of the subject.

scholarly journals Mira Variables, Stellar Evolution and Galactic Structure

1989 ◽  
Vol 111 ◽  
pp. 205-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.W. Feast
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Stellar Evolution ◽  
Galactic Structure ◽  
Mira Variables ◽  
Fields Of Study ◽  
Stellar Pulsation ◽  
The Galaxy ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Comparative Study

The Mira variables make important contributions to four of the main problems under discussion at this meeting, (1) stellar pulsation, (2) stellar evolution, (3) the morphology and history of the Galaxy, (4) the comparative study of different galaxies. The Miras also show how these rather different fields of study overlap, so that it is no longer possible to deal with any one field in isolation.

POCOCK AND THE PRESUPPOSITIONS OF THE NEW BRITISH HISTORY

2010 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 747-770 ◽  
Author(s):  
RICHARD BOURKE
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
British History ◽  
Historical Inquiry ◽  
Scottish Enlightenment ◽  
National History ◽  
Historical Explanation ◽  
Imperial History ◽  
Imperial Expansion ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Comparative Study

ABSTRACTThis article recovers the rationale behind the project to found a ‘new’ British history undertaken by J. G. A. Pocock in the early 1970s, and contrasts this with the approach adopted in the subsequent historiography. The article argues that British history as conceived by Pocock was intended to transcend the parochialism of national history whilst also rehabilitating the writing of imperial history without succumbing to the temptations of metropolitan whiggism. Pocock's perspective was constructed against the backdrop of a British withdrawal from empire and led him to a neo-Seeleyan interest in the dynamics of imperial expansion and retrenchment. While this process is best understood through the comparative study of empires, any such undertaking raises complex questions about the ultimate subject of historical inquiry and the nature of historical explanation. In addressing these questions, this article distinguishes the ambition to write the history of a polity from the aim of writing histories of ‘party’ as originally formulated by the historians of the Scottish enlightenment whose work has been among Pocock's abiding subjects of investigation.

scholarly journals II. The convolutional pattern of the brains of identical twins: a study on hereditary resemblance in the furrows of the cerebral hemispheres

1918 ◽  
Vol 208 (348-359) ◽  
pp. 37-61 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Identical Twins ◽  
Laboratory Research ◽  
Scientific Interest ◽  
Correct Description ◽  
Research Committee ◽  
Points Of Interest ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Scientific Value

The study of the similarity of the convolutional pattern of the brains of relatives has been the subject of considerable attention in the Pathological Laboratory at Claybury, under the direction of Dr. F. W. Mott. At his request Dr. Fisher has been forwarding to the Laboratory a number of fœtuses and children born dead that have occurred in his practice at Shoreditch Infirmary. It has thus happened that full term identical twins came into Dr. Mott’s possession. Realising the scientific value of a correct description of the similarity of the convolutional pattern in the brains of these twins, he has handed them to me and I have carefully studied the same on the lines previously adopted by Schuster in his description of the brains of relatives dying in the London Asylums. I have also made a study of the nervous plexuses and other morphological points of interest. I have been able to give my whole attention to laboratory research owing to the liberal grant made by the Medical Research Committee, and this study is a small part of the work which I have accomplished during the last year. But it was thought by the Director to be of sufficient scientific interest to present to the Royal Society, especially having regard to its being a morphological contribution to the important observations of the late Sir Francis Galton on the history of twins.

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