The Races of the Old Testament (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Sayce, A. H. H.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 144008906X ISBN 13 : 9781440089060

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

This book delves into the fascinating and complex world of human races. The author, a leading scholar of his time, guides the reader through a systematic exploration of the science of ethnology, examining the physical characteristics that distinguish different groups of people. The book examines how features like skull shape, jaw prominence, and hair texture are used to identify distinct racial groups. The author also tackles the misconception that language is a reliable indicator of race, demonstrating how languages can be adopted and changed by populations of varying origins, revealing more about social contact than bloodlines. The author sheds light on the enduring nature of racial traits, arguing that even intermarriage across racial lines does not create new races but rather results in a reversion to an ancestral type. Through this analysis, the book challenges the commonly held beliefs of the time about the connection between race and language, highlighting the importance of understanding the complex interplay of biological, cultural, and historical factors in shaping human diversity. The book offers a nuanced and thought-provoking examination of how early scholars sought to classify and understand the diverse peoples of the ancient world.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Ethnology itself is but a young science, still busied in collecting its facts and arranging its materials ;biblical ethnology is younger still. I ndeed, it is only within the last three or four years that a study of the ethnology of the Old Testament has become possible. We owe the greater part of the materials upon which it must be based to that prince of living excavators and practical archaeologists, Mr. Flinders Petrie. The casts and photographs of the ethnographic types represented on the Egyptian monuments, which he made for the British Association in the winter of 1886-7, have at last given us a solid foundation upon which to work. To Mr. R. S. Poole belongs the merit of first calling the attention of anthropologists to the unexplored mine of facts preserved in the pictures of the ancient Egyptian artists, and to the leading members of the Anthropo logical Institute that of obtaining a grant for their reproduction.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 144008906X
• ISBN 13: 9781440089060
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 193
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