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«IZVESTIYA IRKUTSKOGO GOSUDARSTVENNOGO UNIVERSITETA». SERIYA «POLITOLOGIYA. RELIGIOVEDENIE»
«THE BULLETIN OF IRKUTSK STATE UNIVERSITY». SERIES «POLITICAL SCIENCE AND RELIGION STUDIES»
ISSN 2073-3380 (Print)

List of issues > Series «Political Science and Religion Studies». 2024. Vol 49

The Image of the Pastoral Civilization in the Biblical Texts as Evidence of the Peculiarities of the Process of Historical Development of the Abrahamic Cvilization

Author(s)
A. A. Gorin
Abstract
In the article, the author raises the question of the possibility of using sacred texts (the Old and New Testaments) as a historical source reflecting not only the history of mankind receiving divine Revelation, not only reliably describing the objective reality of the Biblical period of history. The author also raises the question of the texts of historical books of the Old Testament as a source of data on civilizational markers that contribute to determining the moments of qualitative evolutionary growth of ancient civilizations. In the long term, the author suggests using the results of the work not only to consider the dynamics of the development of Abrahamic cultures, but also to evaluate modern attempts to create alternative Abrahamic teachings to Christian, both those that failed to move to a supranational level of development and those claiming this perspective. As an example of such a marker, the author considers the phenomenon of pastoral culture reflected in the Old Testament texts, as well as in the texts of the New Testament. The author approaches the assessment of this marker from the perspective of interdisciplinary analysis, simultaneously involving both sacred texts and research by secular scientists in the field of the history of the Ancient East, biblical archaeology, and the history of religions. Considering the manifestations of the marker under study, the author makes an attempt to evaluate it in the context of the general historical development of both the Abrahamic civilization and the civilizations that influenced the formation of the Jewish civilization in the era of Antiquity. The author traces the process of changing the content component at the moment when the Abrahamic civilization reaches a qualitatively new Christian level. From the author's point of view, similar changes occur with each of the complex of markers characterizing the Abrahamic civilization throughout all successive stages of its development.
About the Authors
Gorin Anton Anatolyevich, Candidate of Sciences (History), Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Institute of Social and Philosophical Sciences and Mass Communications, Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University, 18, Kremlevskaya st., Kazan, 420008, Russian Federation, e-mail: anton-gorin-2009@mail.ru
For citation

Gorin A.A. The Image of the Pastoral Civilization in the Biblical Texts as Evidence of the Peculiarities of the Process of Historical Development of the Abrahamic Cvilization. The Bulletin of Irkutsk State University. Series Political Science and Religion Studies, 2024, vol. 49, pp. 151-163. https://doi.org/10.26516/2073-3380.2024.49.151 (in Russian)

Keywords
Judaism, Christianity, lamb, shepherd, flock, Old Testament, biblical criticism, biblical archaeology, Gospel.
UDC
22.016
DOI
https://doi.org/10.26516/2073-3380.2024.49.151
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