Applied Ritual: The Application of Blood and Oil on Bodies in the Pentateuchal Sources
Source critical analyses of the Pentateuch in recent scholarship have focused primarily on literary means for detecting distinct literary voices, and, in some recent publications, historical aspects of, particularly, the P source. In this article, I formulate a distinct approach to source criticism...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2021
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| In: |
Biblical interpretation
Year: 2021, Volume: 29, Issue: 2, Pages: 120-147 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bible. Exodus 19-24
/ Bible. Levitikus 8
/ Bible. Levitikus 14
/ Bible. Pentateuch, Bible. Pentateuch
/ Source criticism
/ Ritual
/ Blood
/ Oil
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
Ritual Theory
B neo-documentarianism B Source Criticism |
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| Summary: | Source critical analyses of the Pentateuch in recent scholarship have focused primarily on literary means for detecting distinct literary voices, and, in some recent publications, historical aspects of, particularly, the P source. In this article, I formulate a distinct approach to source criticism that supports this resurgence of documentary analysis, examining in particular the ritual of blood and oil daubing on bodies in Exod. 19–24, Lev. 8 and 14. After summarizing the main point at issue (namely, access to the divine), I offer a documentary approach using ritual theory in the study of these texts. Finally, I highlight the manner in which the ritual study of Exod.19–24, Lev. 8 and 14 is consistent with both key historical and recent arguments in the documentary approach to the composition of the Pentateuch. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5152 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Biblical interpretation
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685152-00284P06 |