Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1 RITUAL: A METHODOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK; Chapter 2 PRIESTLY WORLD VIEW AND PRIESTLY RITUAL; Chapter 3 LEVITICUS 16; Chapter 4 LEVITICUS 8; Excursus I: EXODUS 34.29-35: MOSES THE EXALTED INAUGURATOR OF THE CULT; Chapter 5 LEVITICUS 14.1-20; Excursus II: THE ROLE OF BLOOD IN THE KIPPER-ACT BLOOD AS A SYMBOL OF LIFE AND DEATH; Chapter 6 NUMBERS 19; Chapter 7 NUMBERS 28-29; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index of Biblical References; Index of Authors
Summary
For the Priestly writers, ritual was a fundamental form of theological reflection. This study analyses the conceptual categories of space, time and status in an effort to clarify the larger cultural and conceptual categories operative in the Priestly ritual system. Drawing on interpretative models derived from cultural anthropology, the author argues that Priestly creation theology forms a necessary context for understanding the Priestly rituals
Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Emory Univ
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-247) and indexes
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