William Robertson Smith : essays in reassessment / edited by William Johnstone.
By: Smith, W. Robertson (William Robertson)
Contributor(s): Johnstone, William
Language: English Publisher: Sheffield : Sheffield Academic Press, 1995.Description: 403 p. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 185075523X| Item type | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Papers first presented at the William Robertson Smith Congress held in the University of Aberdeen, 5-9 April, 1994.
Includes bibls.
Partial contents: sections D and C: Demonology in W.R. Smith's theory of religious belief / Mary Douglas; W.R. Smith and the anthropological study of myth / Aleksandar Boskovik; W.R. Smith and Frank Byron Jevons: faith and evolution / D. Davies; Deity and the social bond: Robertson Smith and the psychoanalytic theory of religion / H. Lutzky; A reconsideration of Frazer's relationship with R. Smith: the myth and the facts / Hushang Philsooph; Smith versus Frazer on the comparative method / R.A. Segal; R. Smith and Arabic heroic narrative / M. C. Lyons; The use of Arabic in Hebrew lexicography: whence?, whither?, and why? / J.F. Elwolde; Orientalists and orientalisms: R. Smith and E.W. Said Two unlikely travelling companions: Sir R. Burton and W.R. Smith in Egypt 1880 / J.A. Thrower; The legacy of W.R. Smith: reading the Hebrew Bible with Arabic-sensitized eyes.
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