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Reading the Sacred Scriptures: From Oral Tradition to Written Documents and their Reception examines how the scriptures came to be written and how their authority has been constructed and reinforced over time. Highlighting the measures taken to safeguard the stability of oral accounts, this book demonstrates the care of religious communities to maintain with reverence their assembled parchments and scrolls. Written by leading experts in their fields, this collection chronicles the development of the scriptures from oral tradition to written documents and their reception. It features notable essays on the scriptures of Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Confucianism, Daoism, Christianity, Islam, Sikhism, Shinto, and Baha'i.
This book will fascinate anyone interested in the belief systems of the featured religions. It offers an ideal starting point from which undergraduate and postgraduate religious studies students, teachers and lecturers can explore religious traditions from their historical beginnings.
Contents
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Preface
Fiachra Long and Siobhán Dowling Long
Acknowledgments
The hermeneutic task
Fiachra Long
Part 1
Zoroastrian narrative: from Avesta to the Book of Kings
P. Oktor Skjaervø
How the Hebrew Bible came to be
Carmel McCarthy
Mishnah and midrash as process: the evolution of post-biblical Jewish Scriptures
Rabbi Stephen Wylen
How the early Christians read the Hebrew Scriptures
Seán Freyne
Reading the Sacred Scriptures: some evidence from early Christian Ireland
Thomas O'Loughlin
Reading the Song of Songs: a Jewish and Christian love affair
Margaret Daly-Denton
Mis-reading the Qur'ān: a non-Muslim pitfall?
Jonathan Kearney
Modern approaches to the Qur'ān
Oliver Scharbrodt
The reading of Scripture: A Bahá'i approach
Moojan Momen
Part 2
Hinduism and its basic texts: the Vedas, Upanishads, Epics and Puranas
Roshen Dalal
The Buddhist Reading of Scripture
John D'Arcy May
Reading the Scripture from the Sikh tradition: The Guru Granth Sahib
Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh
Confucianism and its texts
Lee Rainey
The Daodejing as a sacred text
Ronnie Littlejohn
Sacred Texts of the Shinto tradition: historical sources of myth and ritual
Stuart D. B. Picken
Part 3
The Book of Isaiah and its readers: the exegetical value of reception history
John F. A. Sawyer
The madness of King Saul: an interpretation of I Samuel 9-31 in music
Siobhán Dowling Long
Parallel narrative methods: Ramayana in the arts of Southeast Asia
Jukka O. Miettinen
