The Senses of Scripture Sensory Perception in the Hebrew Bible 1st Edition by Yael Avrahami 0567460916 9780567460912

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ISBN 10: 0567460916

ISBN 13: 9780567460912

Author: Yael Avrahami

The Senses of Scripture reveals the essence of biblical epistemology – the ways in which ancient Israelites thought about and used their sensorium. The theoretical introduction demonstrates that scholars need to liberate themselves from the Western bias that holds a pentasensory paradigm and prioritises the sense of sight. The discussion of the biblical material demonstrates that biblical scholars should follow a similar path. Through examination of associative and contextual patters the author reaches a septasensory model, including sight, hearing, speech, kinaesthesia, touch, taste, and smell. It is further demonstrated that the senses, according to the HB, are a divinely created physical experience, which symbolised human ability to act in a sovereign manner in the world. Despite the lack of a biblical Hebrew term ‘sense’, it seems that at times the merism sight and hearing serves that matter. Finally, the book discusses the longstanding dispute regarding the primacy of sight vs. hearing, and claims that although there is no strict sensory hierarchy evident in the text, sight holds a central space in biblical epistemology.

The Senses of Scripture Sensory Perception in the Hebrew Bible 1st Table of contents:

Chapter 1. MAKING SENSE OF THE SENSORIUM
The Sensorium and Cultural-Anthropological Perspective
The Sensorium in Biblical Scholarship
Theoretical Considerations
Methodological Considerations

Chapter 2. NUMBER OUR SENSES
Sight and Hearing
Kinaesthesia
Speech
Taste
Olfactory
Touch
Towards a Septasensory Model

Chapter 3. THE SENSORIUM: DEFINITION
Sense and Soma
Sense and Sovereignty
Towards a Definition

Chapter 4. THEOLOGY OF THE SENSES
Who Created the Senses?
Harming the Senses
Sensory Disabilities
Summary
Theology and the Sensory Category

Chapter 5. THE CENTRALITY OF SIGHT IN BIBLICAL EPISTEMOLOGY
Hierarchical Sensorium?
Sight and Evidence
Sight and Sovereignty
Supreme Sight
Conclusion

CONCLUSION: THE SENSES OF SCRIPTURE

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