A Kingdom of Priests : : Ancestry and Merit in Ancient Judaism / / Martha Himmelfarb.
According to the account in the Book of Exodus, God addresses the children of Israel as they stand before Mt. Sinai with the words, "You shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation" (19:6). The sentence, Martha Himmelfarb observes, is paradoxical, for priests are by definition a...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Jewish Culture and Contexts
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (280 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Priest and Scribe
- Chapter 2. Jubilees' Kingdom of Priests
- Chapter 3. Priesthood and Purity Laws
- Chapter 4. Priesthood and Sectarianism
- Chapter 5. Priesthood and Allegory
- Chapter 6. "The Children of Abraham Your Friend"
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments