How is to explain the fact that the field of historical anthropology did not include ancient Judaism among its’ topics of interest. The answer retaining here our attention emphasizes the specificity of Judaism and Claude Lévi‑Strauss belongs to this school of thought. Paradoxically, the father of cultural anthropology argues against the application of the structural method to the ancient Hebrew sources and in the same time inspired some of the major anthropological approaches to ancient Judaism, such as Mary Douglas’ for example. The present paper aims to analyze the relationship of Lévi‑Strauss to ancient Hebrew/Jewish sources as revealed in four of his writings
