The Role Of Meta-Texts In The Translations Of Sacred Texts: The Case Of The Book Of Aristeas And The Septuagint

2009 ◽  
pp. 281-297
Keyword(s):  
Sacred Texts

How to Cite a Sacred Text

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 844-861
Author(s):  
Ron E. Hassner
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Religious Tradition ◽  
Sacred Text ◽  
Sacred Texts ◽  
Appropriate Treatment ◽  
Ancient Texts

AbstractAllusions to holy scriptures and quotes from sacred texts appear in hundreds of political science articles. Yet while we treat other ancient texts with reverence and diligence, we have not extended a similar care to the holy scriptures of the world's religions. Political scientists often refer to biblical events, statements, and turns of phrase but rarely cite them, chapter and verse. They are careless about referencing the precise translation of the holy texts used, tend to cite religious passages out of context, and disregard the role of religious tradition, interpretation, and practice in shaping and reshaping the meaning of holy texts. I offer examples for these trends, provide evidence for their harmful implications and offer guidelines for the appropriate treatment of sacred texts as formal scholarly sources.

Touching Books, Touching Art

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 81-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Ganz
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Sacred Texts ◽  
Visual Objects ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Medieval Christianity

This essay deals with the role of book decoration in a tactile approach to sacred texts in the Western Middle Ages. For a long time, books and artworks have been discussed as visual objects. Taking into account their intrinsic haptic qualities opens new ways to understand the contribution of the arts to the use of sacred texts in medieval Christianity.

scholarly journals The Role of paribhāṣās in Mīmāṃsā: Rational Rules of Textual Exegesis

2018 ◽  
Vol 72 (2) ◽  
pp. 567-595
Author(s):  
Elisa Freschi
Keyword(s):  
Textual Exegesis ◽  
Sacred Texts ◽  
History Of

Abstract This article provides a first investigation on the metarules adopted in the Mīmāṃsā school of textual exegesis. These are not systematically listed and discussed, but they can be seen at work throughout the history of Mīmāṃsā. The Mīmāṃsā school has the exegesis of the sacred texts called Veda as its main focus. The metarules used to understand the Vedic texts are, however, not derived from the Veda itself and are rather rational rules which can be derived from the use of language in general and which Mīmāṃsā authors recognized and analyzed. Since the metarules are considered to be not derived from the Veda, it is all but natural that later authors inspired by Mīmāṃsā apply them outside the precinct of the Veda, for instance in the fields of textual linguistics, poetics, theology and jurisprudence.

Secularisation and Theologisation

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-95
Author(s):  
Geetanjali Srikantan
Keyword(s):  
Natural Law ◽  
Customary Law ◽  
Legal Systems ◽  
Sacred Texts ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
British Colonial ◽  
Divine Law ◽  
Legal Epistemology

The formation of Hindu law has been chronicled by historians and others as a complex process involving the negation of customary law and the upholding of sacred texts, upon which codes of law were formulated. This paper seeks to interrogate the truth behind this narrative by examining the category of Hindu law and the processes that allowed it to emerge within the British colonial legal imagination. It argues that the making of Hindu law was a process of theologisation within an outer framework of secularisation i.e. the Christian theological framework embedded in the secular framework of Western legal epistemology was the background by which “Hindu law” emerged in the eyes of the colonisers. It examines Western legal notions of divine law, natural law, and human law and the role of historical jurisprudence in this process. It finally concludes by examining the implications of the argument for the formation of secular legal systems.

scholarly journals Gender Relation Concept: Perspective of Al-Qur’an

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (01) ◽  
pp. 11-30
Author(s):  
Faisar Ananda Arfa ◽  
Heri Firmansyah
Keyword(s):  
Gender Relations ◽  
Gender Issue ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Gender Relation ◽  
Gender Discourse ◽  
Sacred Texts ◽  
Contemporary Life ◽  
Role Of Women

Dalam masyarakat agama akan selalu terjadi perdebatan antara kelompok yang bertahan dengan teks sebagaimana adanya dengan pihak-pihak yang mencoba membaca teks dalam konteks dan membuatnya selaras dengan perkembangan paradigma baru dalam kehidupan kekinian. Salah satu topik yang merefleksikan fenomena di atas adalah ketika wacana gender yang adalah problematika kehidupan cosmopolitan modern dihadapkan dengan teks-teks suci yang telah berusia berabad-abad yang lalu. Tidaklah mengherankan bila kemudian terjadi perdebatan yang serius tentang kemampuan masyarakat agama di dalam merespon issu gender ini. Artikel ini berusaha untuk mengungkapkan pengkajian Islam modern  dengan mempelajari suatu pendekatan baru yang popular dengan istilah pendekatan gender di dalam melakukan analisa terhadap ayat-ayat maupun hadis nabi dan istinbat hukum terutama di dalam menggambarkan posisi dan peranan kaum wanita serta hubungan mereka dengan kaum laki-laki. Dalam artikel ini akan ditemukan secara jelas bahwa Konsep relasi gender di dalam Alquran merefleksikan dua kesan yang berbeda secara theologies dan sosiologis.   In religious societies there will always be debates between groups that persist with the text as it is with parties who try to read the text in context and make it in harmony with the development of new paradigms in contemporary life. One topic that reflects the above phenomenon is when gender discourse is a problem of modern cosmopolitan life confronted with sacred texts that have been centuries old. It is not surprising then that serious debate ensues about the ability of religious communities to respond to this gender issue. This article seeks to express the study of modern Islam by studying a new app roach that is popular with the term gender approach in analyzing the verses and traditions of the prophet and legal istinbat especially in describing the position and role of women and their relationship with men . In this article it will be clearly found that the concept of gender relations in the Koran reflects two different theological and sociological impressions.

Japhet in the Tents of Shem: Rabbinic Hermeneutics and Modern Literary Theory

2021 ◽  
Vol 80 (4) ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Aleksandr Belarev
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Literary Theory ◽  
Scientific Study ◽  
Modern Theory ◽  
Sacred Texts ◽  
Theory Of Reading

The article is devoted to the extremely fruitful “meeting&8j1; of modern literary theory with traditional Jewish hermeneutics that took place in American literary criticism in the 1980s and 1990s. American poststructuralists sought not only to read Jewish sources using the optics of a new theory of reading based on the ideas of J. Derrida and R. Barthes, but also to see in rabbinic hermeneutics an actual source of models, images and terms for modern text theory. An analysis of the approaches of S. Handelman, H. Bloom, D. Boyarin shows that for them the terms of Kabbalah, the Midrash technique, and the rabbinic notion of the role of the interpreter, of tradition and innovation, stabilization and deformation of the canon have become tools for solving problems of modern literary theory. For these authors, the problem of continuing tradition in a situation of breaking with tradition and the problem of the theoretician's situation on the border of two worlds came to the fore. We can talk about the aspiration in poststructuralism to a triple reading of traditional Jewish texts: both as sacred texts, as objects of scientific study and as “modern” theoretical texts. In turn, the texts of modern theory are read by American poststructuralists as a continuation of an ancient tradition.

Beyond the Ḥaram: Ibn al-Khaṭīb and His Privileged Knowledge of Royal Nasrid Women

2014 ◽  
Vol 20 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 383-402
Author(s):  
Bárbara Boloix-Gallardo
Keyword(s):  
Sacred Texts ◽  
Historical Role ◽  
Role Of Women

One of the most difficult tasks of specialists devoted to the study of medieval Islamic societies is to reconstruct the historical role of women. The patriarchal interpretation of Islamic scriptural sources by largely male Muslim chroniclers, as well as the masculine nature of Arabic historiography, produced by and for men, determined the relegation of women to the background in both history and society. As a consequence, the presence of women was usually veiled in the chronicles, due to the exacerbated respect towards their identities stipulated by Muslim sacred texts, which recommended preserving women within the private area of society. However, some authors went beyond these conventions and offered interesting data concerning the women of the dynasty that they served. This was the case of Ibn al-Khaṭīb, whose work is unique and fundamental to our knowledge of the female sultans of the Alhambra and the particularities of the Nasrid harem, as we will prove throughout this paper.

Holy Book — a Treasury of the Incomprehensible. The Invention of Writing and Religious Cognition

Numen ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 269-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilkka Pyysiäinen
Keyword(s):  
Ultimate Reality ◽  
Human Reasoning ◽  
Theoretical Discussion ◽  
Circular Reasoning ◽  
Conceptual Systems ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Sacred Texts ◽  
Rational Argumentation ◽  
Holy Book

AbstractThis paper provides a theoretical discussion of the role the introduction of writing plays in the development of religious conceptual systems. It is argued that the writing down of religious traditions makes the transmission of radically counter-intuitive ideas possible, and that the formation of Canons introduces the distinction between a foundational text and its philosophical commentary. Defending the foundational role of the sacred texts by rational argumentation either leads to endless regression of arguments, or to circular reasoning and paradoxes. To accept this as natural, would deprive sacred texts of their special status as the foundation. In religions, this deadlock is used to illustrate the limits of human reasoning powers and, by the same token, to prove that there must be an ultimate reality which can only be accessed through "revelation", "enlightenment", and the like.

scholarly journals O Bhagavad Gita como fonte de estudo da filosofia guerreira indiana

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 146
Author(s):  
João Gomes Braatz
Keyword(s):  
Production Process ◽  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Meaning Of Life ◽  
Bhagavad Gita ◽  
Sacred Texts ◽  
Indian Text ◽  
Bhagavad Gītā

Nesta pesquisa, procura-se analisar as características e significado da guerra evidenciados no texto indiano Bhagavad Gita, pertencente à obra Mahabharata. Sua produção é posterior à dos grandes Vedas, os primeiros textos sagrados do que viria a tornar-se o Hinduísmo. Tendo seus versos inteiramente compilados durante o século IV AEC, a obra adquiriu o formato atual aproximadamente pelo século V, já que se acredita que o processo de produção tenha durado em torno de um milênio, por meio da tradição oral. É no Bhagavad Gita que ocorre o diálogo entre o deus Krishna e Arjuna, o herói da história. Neste capítulo, consta o ensinamento divino passado para o guerreiro, que trata do sentido da vida e do papel do guerreiro na sociedade védica, tornando a obra referência para a varna dos Kshatriyas (xátrias, a varna guerreira).Palavras-chave: Filosofia guerreira, Bhagavad Gita, Índia. AbstractIn this research, seeks to analyze the characteristics and meaning of war evidenced in the Indian text “Bhagavad Gita” that belongs to the book “Mahabharata”. Its production is later then the Vedas, the first sacred texts of what was to become Hinduism. Having its verses fully compiled during the century IV BCE, the book has acquired the current format approximately in the V century, since it is believed that the production process lasted around a millennium, through oral tradition. It’s in the Bhagavad Gita that occurs the dialogue between the god Krishna and Arjuna, the hero of the story. In that chapter, there is the divine teaching passed to the warrior, which deals with the meaning of life and the role of the warrior in Vedic society, making this text a reference for the varna of Kshatriyas (xátrias, the warrior varna).Keywords: Warrior philosophy. Bhagavad Gita. India.

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