How to Determine the Meaning of a Sacred Text

Williams, Jay G.

How to Determine the Meaning of a Sacred Text Cases and Methodologies. [electronic resource] : - Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press, 2011. - 1 online resource (358 p.)

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Title Page; Copyright Page; WIlliams PDF ISBN 0-7734-2035-5; Preface; Foreward; Dedication; Acknowledgements and Permissions; TABLE OF CONTENTS; Introduction; Part I; Part II; Part III; Part IV; Part V; Part VI; Epilogue; Works Cited; Indices;

This work applies many different approaches to the analysis of sacred texts. The articles contained in this collection are influenced by structuralism, phenomenology, the study of self-referentiality and Zen. In many cases, Eastern thought is applied to Western texts, and vice versa.

9780773420359 (electronic bk.) 0773420355 (electronic bk.)


Hermeneutics.
Sacred books -- History and criticism.
Sacred books.
Religion.
Sacred books--History and criticism.
Hermeneutics.
RELIGION / Christianity / General


Electronic books.

BL71 .W585 2011

208.2