Tag: Tradition

Free Download Robert C. Evans, "Reception History, Tradition and Biblical Interpretation: Gadamer and Jauss in Current Practice "
English | ISBN: 0567655407 | 2014 | 328 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This study seeks to make a contribution to current debates about the nature of Wirkungsgeschichte or reception history and its place in contemporary Biblical Studies. The author addresses three crucial questions: the relationship between reception history and historical-critical exegesis; the form of reception history itself, with a focus on the issue of which acts of reception are selected and valorized; and the role of tradition, pre-judgements and theology in relation to reception history. Disagreements about these matters contribute to what many characterise as the fragmentation of the discipline of biblical studies.

Free Download Studies in Plato and the Platonic Tradition: Essays Presented to John Whittaker By Mark Joyal
1997 | 313 Pages | ISBN: 0860786471 | PDF | 7 MB
This book, which honours the career of a distinguished scholar, contains essays dealing with important problems in Plato, the Platonic tradition, and the texts and transmission of Plato and later Platonic writers. It ranges from the discussion of issues in individual Platonic dialogues to the examination of Platonism in the Middle Ages. The essays are written by leading scholars in the field and reflect the current state of knowledge on the various problems under discussion. The collection as a whole testifies to the importance of the Platonic writings for the history of ideas, and to the vitality that the study of these writings continues to possess.

Free Download The Civil War Political Tradition
by Paul D. Escott;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0813949688 | 214 pages | True EPUB | 5.48 MB

Free Download Jack Goody, "Technology, Tradition and the State in Africa"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1138585122, 1138585300 | PDF | pages: 103 | 9.2 mb
Originally published in 1971 this book argues that certain aspects of traditional African social systems have been misunderstood because of a failure to appreciate what is implied by important differences between the technologies of the major traditional African states and those of Europe and Asia. Differences in the modes of agricultural production were connected with differences in other aspects of the social system such as the relations between subjects and chiefs. This means that comparisons with the feudal systems of Western Europe or the monarchies of Asiatic states have definite limitations. Differences in technology not only affected not only the means of production but also of destruction. The importance of differential access to the means of domination is stressed as a critical factor in African political systems. This is an aspect which has been obscured in many studies that have relied largely on material gathered after the establishment of colonial rule.