TY  - BOOK
AU  - Biderman
TI  - Scripture and Knowledge, : An Essay on Religious Epistemology
SN  - 9789004378919
AV  - BL71 .B53 1995
U1  - 291.8/2 20
PY  - 1995///
CY  - Leiden, , Boston: 
PB  - Brill, 
KW  - Sacred books
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Knowledge, Theory of (Religion)
KW  - Epistemology
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Religion
KW  - Study and teaching
N1  - Preliminary Material; Shlomo Biderman --; Introduction; Shlomo Biderman --; Scripture and the Study of Religion; Shlomo Biderman --; Textual and Functional Approaches to Scripture; Shlomo Biderman --; Scriptural Knowledge and Authority; Shlomo Biderman --; Authority and Necessity: A Jewish Perspectne; Shlomo Biderman --; Authority and Action: An Indian Perspective; Shlomo Biderman --; Bibliography; Shlomo Biderman --; Index; Shlomo Biderman --; Studies in the History of Religions Numen Book Series; Shlomo Biderman
N2  - At the core of Scripture and Knowledge lies the problem of the nature of religious knowledge. The author argues that religion is a particular framework rather than a particular content or defined set of performances. He sees this framework as epistemological, that is, as one that furnishes believers with a conception of knowledge alternative to that of philosophical reasoning. The thesis on the epistemological nature of religion will be developed by the examination of the concept of scripture as a body of authoritative and even infallible texts. The concept of scripture is presented as one of the constitutive concepts of the epistemological framework of religion. The author argues that the various scriptures and their commentaries should be understood as the arena within which the epistemological process of religion takes place and the central epistemological means by which religious knowledge is made possible
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004378919
ER  -