We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.
We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.
from Part 1 - Origins
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 November 2019
It has become something of a cliché that the “western discourse” that Edward W. Said labeled “orientalism,”1 which included scholarship about an area labeled the “Orient,” regarded the Orient as the West’s “Other.” However, it was a crucial fact for both scholarly and popular Orientalism that the Orient contained the homeland of the Bible. This was because the Bible is the defining document of Christianity, and Christianity the defining document of the West. Hence the Orient was regarded as much as the Mother as the Other by Orientalists in the nineteenth century, which saw the spectacular rise of biblical philology, a discipline that regarded the Bible as an Oriental document: the product of the Oriental mind. The very concept of an Oriental mind, in fact, owed its modern essence to biblical philology.
To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure [email protected] is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.
Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.
Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.
