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Sinopsis

Scripture and Knowledge clarifies the epistemological uses of scripture and examines some of the ways in which these uses have been understood in religious traditions. The author contends that philosophers have neglected scripture as a means of understanding religion. He shows the inadequacy of prevalent emphases on either the content or the social function of scripture as the sole measure of its role. As the author demonstrates, scripture has a unique epistemological aspect, that of a framework that gives believers a total picture of the world and its significance. A discussion of the knowledge claims made by scripture and of the authority by which these claims are justified is accompanied by extended examples from Jewish and Hindu sources.

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Shlomo Biderman is Professor of Philosophy and Head of the Porter Graduate School of Cultural Studies, Tel Aviv University. He has published on Indian philosophy, comparative philosophy and philosophy of religion. He is a co-editor of Philosophy and Religion: A Comparative Yearbook (Brill).

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