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Author Olyan, Saul M

Title Rites and rank : hierarchy in biblical representations of cult / Saul M. Olyan
Published Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 190 pages)
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Summary Good and evil, clean and unclean, rich and poor, self and other. The nature and function of such binary oppositions have long intrigued scholars in such fields as philosophy, linguistics, classics, and anthropology. From the opening chapters of Genesis, in which God separates day from night, and Adam and Eve partake of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, dyadic pairs proliferate throughout the Hebrew Bible. In this groundbreaking work melding critical exegesis and contemporary theory, Saul M. Olyan considers the prevalence of polarities in biblical discourse and expounds their signific
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-174) and index
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SUBJECT Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
Bible. Old Testament fast
Subject Social stratification in the Bible.
Worship in the Bible.
RELIGION -- Biblical Criticism & Interpretation -- Old Testament.
Social stratification in the Bible
Worship in the Bible
Oude Testament.
Cultus.
Sociale stratificatie.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1400812879
9781400812875
9780691029481
0691029482
9781400823567
1400823560