A Life of Psalms in Jewish Late Antiquity / / A. J. Berkovitz.
The Bible shaped nearly every aspect of Jewish life in the ancient world, from activities as obvious as attending synagogue to those which have lost their scriptural resonance in modernity, such as drinking water and uttering one’s last words. And within a scriptural universe, no work exerted more f...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Jewish Culture and Contexts
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (274 p.) :; 13 ills 3 tables |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Holding the Scrolls of Psalms
- Chapter 2 Reading a Material Psalter
- Chapter 3 Singing Psalms
- Chapter 4 Reciting Psalms in Piety and Magic
- Conclusions and Prospects. The Other Lives of Psalms
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments