Of wood and stone : : the significance of Israelite cultic items in the Bible and its early interpreters /

Of wood and stone : : the significance of Israelite cultic items in the Bible and its early interpreters / / Elizabeth C. LaRocca-Pitts.

The Hebrew Bible contains varying opinions concerning which cultic items or objects used in worship were appropriate for use within YHWHism and which were not. By analyzing every passage which mentions \'high places\' (bamot), sacred trees or poles (asherim), standing stones, altars, and c...

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Superior document:Harvard Semitic Museum publications
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LaRocca-Pitts, Elizabeth C., 1959-
Place / Publishing House:Winona Lake, Ind. : : Eisenbrauns,, 2001.
Year of Publication:2001
Language:English
Series:Harvard Semitic Monographs 61.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiii, 385 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction and Review of Scholarship
  • Source-critical Analysis of Texts Related to Cultic Items
  • The Tetrateuchal Sources
  • Deuteronomy and the Deuteronomistic Historian
  • The Chronicler: Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah
  • The Prophets and Remaining Writings
  • Synthesis of Biblical Data on Individual Items
  • Synthesis of the Data Regarding bāmôt
  • Synthesis of the Data Regarding bāmôt
  • Synthesis of the Data Regarding maṣṣēbôt
  • Synthesis of the Data Regarding mizbəḥôt
  • Analysis of Material from the Ancient Translations
  • The LXX and Other Greek Witnesses
  • The Vulgate and Other Latin Witnesses
  • The Targumim and Other Early Jewish Interpretation
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Ancient Sources
  • Subject Index
  • Index of Scholars.

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