Cult and character : purification offerings, Day of Atonement, and theodicy / / Roy E. Gane.
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| Year of Publication: | 2005 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xxi, 394 p. :; ill. |
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Table of Contents:
- The locus of ritual meaning
- The system of tajf rituals
- Outer-altar purification offerings
- Outer-sanctum purification offerings
- Purification-offering flesh : prebend or expiation
- Purification offering : purgation of sanctuary or offerer?
- Pollution of the sanctuary : aerial or only by direct contact?
- Blood or ash water : detergent, metaphorical carrier agent, or means of passage?
- The scope of expiability
- Inner-sanctum purification offerings
- The purification ritual of Azazel's goat
- Two major phases of ritual
- Trajectories of evils
- Divine justice and the cost of kindness
- Divine presence and theodicy
- Loyalty and royalty in Hebrew narrative
- Yearly accountability in Mesopotamian cult.