Text and Ritual in the Pentateuch : : A Systematic and Comparative Approach /

Text and Ritual in the Pentateuch : : A Systematic and Comparative Approach / / ed. by Julia Rhyder, Christophe Nihan.

The first five books of the Hebrew Bible contain a significant number of texts describing ritual practices. Yet it is often unclear how these sources would have been understood or used by ancient audiences in the actual performance of cult. This volume explores the processes of ritual textualization...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
MitwirkendeR:
Erbele-Küster, Dorothea,
Falk, Daniel K.,
Feder, Yitzhaq,
Frevel, Christian,
Gilders, William K.,
Jaillard, Dominique,
Lenzo, Giuseppina,
Marti, Lionel,
Michel, Patrick,
Nihan, Christophe,
Rhyder, Julia,
Schmitt, Rüdiger,
Smoak, Jeremy D.,
Watts, James W.,
HerausgeberIn:
Nihan, Christophe,
Rhyder, Julia,
Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (348 p.) :; 6 illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 Rituals in the Spells of the Book of the Dead in Ancient Egypt
  • Chapter 2 Between Utterance and Dedication: Some Remarks on the Status of Textuality in Greek Ritual Practices
  • Chapter 3 Inscriptions and Ritual Practices in the Neo-Assyrian Period: The Construction of a Building as an Example
  • Chapter 4 Between Text and Ritual: The Function(s) of the Ritual Texts from Late Bronze Age Emar (Syria)
  • Chapter 5 The Textualization of Priestly Ritual in Light of Hittite Sources
  • Chapter 6 Diversity and Centralization of the Temple Cult in the Archeological Record from the Iron II C to the Persian and Hellenistic Periods in Judah
  • Chapter 7 Texts Are Not Rituals, and Rituals Are Not Texts , with an Example from Leviticus 12
  • Chapter 8. The Texture of Rituals in the Book of Numbers: A Fresh Approach to Ritual Density, the Role of Tradition, and the Emergence of Diversity in Early Judaism
  • Chapter 9. Speaking with a Divine Voice: The Rhetoric of Epistolary Performance in Numbers 6:22–27
  • Chapter 10 The Ritual Texts of Leviticus and the Creation of Ritualized Bodies
  • Chapter 11 The Reception of Ritual Laws in the Early Second Temple Period: Evidence from Ezra- Nehemiah and Chronicles
  • Chapter 12. Text and Ritual in the Dead Sea Scrolls
  • Chapter 13. “And They Would Read Before Him the Order for the Day”: The Textuality of Leviticus 16 in Mishnah Yoma, Tosefta Kippurim, and Sifra Aḥare Mot
  • List of Contributors
  • Index of Ancient Sources
  • Subject Index

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