Ritual Innovation in the Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism / / ed. by Nathan MacDonald.
Are the rituals in the Hebrew Bible of great antiquity, practiced unchanged from earliest times, or are they the products of later innovators? The canonical text is clear: ritual innovation is repudiated as when Jeroboam I of Israel inaugurate a novel cult at Bethel and Dan. Most rituals are traced...
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2016] ©2016 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft ,
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (VIII, 171 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Table of Contents
- Strange Fire before the Lord: Thinking about Ritual Innovation in the Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism
- Two Types of Ritual Innovation for Profit
- From Ark of the Covenant to Torah Scroll: Ritualizing Israel’s Iconic Texts
- The Empty Throne and the Empty Sanctuary: From Aniconism to the Invisibility of God in Second Temple Theology
- Ritual Innovation and Shavuʿot
- How the Priestly Sabbaths Work: Innovation in Pentateuchal Priestly Ritual
- Innovation in the Suspected Adulteress Ritual (Num 5:11–31)
- Practicing Rituals in a Textual World: Ritual and Innovation in the Book of Numbers
- Walking over the Dead: Burial Practices and the Possibility of Ritual Innovation at Qumran
- Contributors
- Subject Index
- Index of names