| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) |
| Contents |
Rituals in the spells of the Book of the dead in ancient Egypt / Giuseppina Lenzo -- Between utterance and dedication : some remarks on the status of textuality in Greek ritual practices / Dominique Jaillard -- Inscriptions and ritual practices in the Neo-Assyrian period : the construction of a building as an example / Lionel Marti -- Between text and ritual : the function(s) of the ritual texts from Late Bronze Age Emar (Syria) / Patrick Michel -- The textualization of priestly ritual in light of Hittite sources / Yitzhaq Feder -- Diversity and centralization of the temple cult in the archeological record from the Iron II C to the Persian and Hellenistic periods in Judah / Rüdiger Schmitt -- Text are not rituals, and rituals are not texts, with an example from Leviticus 12 / James W. Watts -- The texture of rituals in the Book of Numbers : a fresh approach to the ritual density, the role of tradition, and the emergence of diversity in early Judaism / Christian Frevel -- Speaking with a divine voice : the rhetoric of epistolary performance in Numbers 6:22-27 / Jeremy D. Smoak -- The ritual texts of Leviticus and the creation of ritualized bodies / Dorothea Erbele-Küster -- The reception of ritual laws in the early Second Temple Period : evidence from Ezra-Nehemiah and Chronicles / Julia Rhyder -- Text and ritual in the Dead Sea scrolls / Daniel K. Falk -- 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 / William K. Gilders |
| Summary |
"A collection of essays examining the conceptual and methodological issues that currently inform the study of text and ritual in the Pentateuch"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Bible. Pentateuch -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85013789
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Bible. Pentateuch fast |
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Rites and ceremonies in the Bible.
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Ritual -- Middle East -- History -- To 1500
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Judaism -- Liturgy.
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Judaism -- Liturgy
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Rites and ceremonies in the Bible
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Ritual
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Middle East
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| Genre/Form |
essays.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Essays
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History
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Essays.
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Essais.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Nihan, Christophe, 1972- editor.
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Rhyder, Julia, 1987- editor.
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| ISBN |
1646021576 |
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9781646021574 |
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