Text and ritual in the Pentateuch: a systematic and comparative approach
Intro -- COVER Front -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Rituals in the Spells of the Book of the Dead in Ancient Egypt -- Chapter2: Between Utterance and Dedication: Some Remarks on the Status of Textuality in Greek Ritual Practices -- Chapter 3: Inscriptions and Ri...
| Summary: | Intro -- COVER Front -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Rituals in the Spells of the Book of the Dead in Ancient Egypt -- Chapter2: 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 16in Mishnah Yoma, Tosefta Kippurim, and Sifra Aḥare Mot -- Index. "A collection of essays examining the conceptual and methodological issues that currently inform the study of text and ritual in the Pentateuch"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 1646021576 |
| Access: | Restricted Access |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/9781646021574 |