Alf Hiltebeitel

Alf John Hiltebeitel (New York, 10 aprile 1942[1]Cali, 12 marzo 2023[2]) è stato uno storico delle religioni e indologo statunitense.

Biografia[modifica | modifica wikitesto]

Per anni professore di storia delle religioni e scienze umane alla George Washington University a Washington, Hiltebeitel era uno specialista della letteratura epico-religiosa hindū (Itihāsa), segnatamente del Mahābhārata e del Rāmāyaṇa.

Morì nel 2023 in Colombia.

Opere principali[modifica | modifica wikitesto]

  • The Ritual of Battle: Krishna in the Mahabharata, Cornell University Press (1976). (Reprinted Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990; Delhi: Sri Satguru Publications, 1991).
  • The Cult of Draupadi: Mythologies: From Gingee to Kuruksetra, University of Chicago Press (1988). (Reprinted Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1992).
  • The Cult of Draupadi: On Hindu Ritual and the Goddess, University of Chicago Press (1991).
  • Rethinking India's Oral and Classical Epics: Draupadi among Rajputs, Muslims, and Dalits, University of Chicago Press (1999). (Reprinted Delhi: Oxford, 2001).
  • Rethinking the Mahabharata: A Reader's Guide to the Education of the Dharma King, University of Chicago Press (2001).
  • Dharma: Its Early History in Law, Religion, and Narrative, Oxford University Press (2011).
  • Reading the Fifth Veda: Studies on the Mahabharata; Essays by Alf Hiltebeitel, volume 1, ed. by Vishwa Adluri and Joydeep Bagchee, E. J. Brill (2011).
  • When the Goddess Was a Woman: Mahabharata Ethnographies; Essays by Alf Hiltebeitel, volume 2, ed. by Vishwa Adluri and Joydeep Bagchee. E. J. Brill (2011).

Note[modifica | modifica wikitesto]

  1. ^ (EN) ALFRED HILTEBEITEL OBITUARY, su legacy.com. URL consultato l'11 aprile 2023.
  2. ^ (EN) Alfred John Hiltebeitel, su divinity.uchicago.edu. URL consultato l'11 aprile 2023.
Controllo di autoritàVIAF (EN73886592 · ISNI (EN0000 0001 2139 4326 · BAV 495/184861 · LCCN (ENn87839315 · GND (DE142305200 · BNE (ESXX5621690 (data) · BNF (FRcb12123543d (data) · J9U (ENHE987007262646205171 · NSK (HR000328759 · WorldCat Identities (ENlccn-n87839315