Reading the Sacred Scriptures
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Table of 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

    About the Author

    Fiachra Long is a philosopher and Senior Lecturer in Education at University College Cork where he is Head of School.

    Siobhán Dowling Long is a Lecturer in Education at University College Cork.

    Reviews

    "The accessible and erudite, thought-through chapters of this book open up the foundational scriptures of the world religions and illumine their history of effects in the practices and self-understandings of their own traditions, and in their encounter with other religions and cultures. A first-class, thorough and original book for teaching and learning about the varied ways in which religions relate to their foundational scriptures, bringing together experts on these texts and their hermeneutics in different eras."- Maureen Junker-Kenny, Trinity College, Ireland"A nice collection of essays bound together by the common interest in hermeneutics as well as by the variety of topics and traditions presented that leads one to ponder on diversity and unity in reading sacred literature."- J. Verheyden, Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses

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