First words, last words: new theories for reading old texts in sixteenth-century India
This work explores the nature of theoretical innovation in scholastic traditions by focusing on a specific controversy regarding scriptural interpretation in 16th-century India. The controversy concerns the role of sequence-what comes first and what comes later-in determining our interpretation of a...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Oxford University Press
2021
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| In: | Year: 2021 |
| Series/Journal: | Religion in translation
Oxford scholarship online |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Hindu philosophy
/ Hermeneutics
B Mimansa / Vedanta / Advaita / Dvaita Vedanta )Hinduism) / Hermeneutics / History 1500-1600 |
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Sacred Books
History and criticism
B Vedas Hermeneutics History B Sanskrit literature History and criticism History |
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| Summary: | This work explores the nature of theoretical innovation in scholastic traditions by focusing on a specific controversy regarding scriptural interpretation in 16th-century India. The controversy concerns the role of sequence-what comes first and what comes later-in determining our interpretation of a scriptural passage. Bronner and McCrea trace both the issue of sequence and the question of innovation through an in-depth study of this debate and through a comparative survey of similar problems in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, revealing that the disputants in this controversy often pretended to uphold traditional views, when they were in fact radically innovative. |
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| Item Description: | Also issued in print: 2021. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 30, 2021) |
| ISBN: | 0197583504 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197583470.001.0001 |