Rituals And Ritual Theory In Ancient Israel

Author : Ithamar Gruenwald
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004126275
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rituals and Ritual Theory in Ancient Israel written by Ithamar Gruenwald and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2003 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book explores the links between mythic and rituals, arguing that the connectedness with ritual endows a story with a mythic essence. Detailed discussions of various rituals exemplify the major theoretical discourse. The book is of interest to scholars in the areas of religious studies, the anthropology of religion, and Halakhah (law and ritual).

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Download or read book Rituals and Ritual Theory in Ancient Israel. The Brill Reference Library of Judaism written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gerald A. Klingbeil
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 1575065967
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bridging the Gap written by Gerald A. Klingbeil and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2007-06-23 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is intended to introduce university and seminary students and scholars to the neglected field of ritual studies, particularly within the larger context of biblical and theological studies. At the same time, the author hopes to further the discussion by interacting with numerous scholars in the field, providing an extensive bibliography of relevant works. Klingbeil defines the basic terms used in ritual studies and explains the concepts involved in interpreting biblical ritual. He offers a broad history of the study of biblical ritual, beginning with the critiques of ritual found in the Old Testament prophetic books and surveying attitudes toward ritual down to modern times. Drawing on the fields of anthropology and sociology, as well as his decade of work in the field, Klingbeil presents a comprehensive reading strategy for biblical ritual texts. In addition, he explores connections between ritual studies and theological research. This ground-breaking study promises to generate discussion about biblical ritual and provides an excellent introduction to this growing field of study for students and scholars.

Author : Brad E. Kelle
Publisher : Society of Biblical Lit
ISBN 13 : 1589839595
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Warfare, Ritual, and Symbol in Biblical and Modern Contexts written by Brad E. Kelle and published by Society of Biblical Lit. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New perspectives on Israelite warfare for biblical studies, military studies, and social theory Contributors investigate what constituted a symbol in war, what rituals were performed and their purpose, how symbols and rituals functioned in and between wars and battles, what effects symbols and rituals had on insiders and outsiders, what ways symbols and rituals functioned as instruments of war, and what roles rituals and symbols played in the production and use of texts. Features: Thirteen essays examine war in textual, historical, and social contexts Texts from the Hebrew Bible are read in light of ancient Near Eastern texts and archaeology Interdisciplinary studies make use of contemporary ritual and social theory

Author : Samuel Henry Hooke
Publisher : Oxford : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Myth, Ritual, and Kingship written by Samuel Henry Hooke and published by Oxford : Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1958 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Samuel E. Balentine
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190222123
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Ritual and Worship in the Hebrew Bible written by Samuel E. Balentine and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-16 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ritual has a primal connection to the idea that a transcendent order - numinous and mysterious, supranatural and elusive, divine and wholly other - gives meaning and purpose to life. The construction of rites and rituals enables humans to conceive and apprehend this transcendent order, to symbolize it and interact with it, to postulate its truths in the face of contradicting realities and to repair them when they have been breached or diminished. This Handbook provides a compendium of the information essential for constructing a comprehensive and integrated account of ritual and worship in the ancient world. Its focus on ritual and worship from the perspective of biblical studies, as opposed to religious studies, highlights that the world of ritual and worship was a topic of central concern for the people of the Ancient Near East, including the world of the Bible. Given the scarcity of the material in the Bible itself, the authors in this collection use materials from the ancient Near East to provide a larger context for the practices of the biblical world, giving due attention to historical, anthropological, and social scientific methods that inform the context of biblical worship. The specifics of ritual and worship life-the sacred spaces, times, and actors in worship-are examined in detail, with essays covering both the divine and human aspects of the sacred dimension. The Oxford Handbook of Ritual and Worship in the Hebrew Bible considers several underlying concepts of ritual practice and closes with a theological outlook on worship and ritual from a variety of perspectives, demonstrating a fruitful exchange between biblical studies, ritual theory, and social science research.

Author : Laura Quick
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567693384
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Perspectives on Ritual in the Biblical World written by Laura Quick and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-06-16 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a range of methodologically innovative treatments on ritual action in the Hebrew Bible. They treat a diverse range of ritual phenomena, including space, blessings and oath-taking, from the world of ancient Israel and Judah. The introduction engages with the dominant scholarly models drawn from ritual theory, and the volume explores their applicability to ancient textual material such as the Hebrew Bible. The chapters reflect high-level specialized engagement with specific ritual phenomena through the lens of appropriate theoretical and methodological approaches.

Author : Melissa D. Ramos
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351335162
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ritual in Deuteronomy written by Melissa D. Ramos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ritual in Deuteronomy explores the symbolic world of Deuteronomy’s ritual covenant and curses through a lens of religious studies and anthropology, drawing on previously unexamined Mesopotamian material. This book focuses on the ritual material in Deuteronomy including commands regarding sacrifice, prayer objects, and especially the dramatic ritual enactment of the covenant including curses. The book’s most unique feature is an entirely new comparative study of Deut 27–30 with two ritual texts from Mesopotamia. No studies to date have undertaken a comparison of Deut 27–30 with ancient Near Eastern ritual texts outside of the treaty oath tradition. This fresh comparison illuminates how the ritual life of ancient Israel shaped the literary form of Deuteronomy and concludes that the performance of oaths was a social strategy, addressing contemporary anxieties and reinforcing systems of cultural power. This book offers a fascinating comparative study which will be of interest to undergraduate and graduate students in biblical studies, classical Hebrew, theology, and ancient Near Eastern studies. The book’s more technical aspects will also appeal to scholars of the Pentateuch, Deuteronomy, Biblical Law, Ancient Near Eastern History, Mesopotamian Studies, and Classics.

Author : Ada Taggar Cohen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567710564
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tracing the Ritual Body written by Ada Taggar Cohen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-09-19 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume utilizes Catherine Bell's ritual theory to shed new light on the many rituals reflected in ancient Mediterranean texts. In recent decades scholars of religion have come to realize that ritual and bodily practices are just as important for religion as beliefs and doctrine. With the development of ritual studies in the 1990s there arose a critical framework for investigating ritual and practice. Only recently, however, has Bell's theorizing been employed to study the rituals portrayed in ancient texts. This cross-disciplinary examination assesses the utility of Bell's theorizing for studying the textual evidence for rituals of the ancient Near East, the Hebrew Bible, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the New Testament, and other early Christian literature. The contributors to this volume illustrate a path away from regarding rituals as inert and fixed and toward a more complex and vibrant interactive model of ritual behaviour. In this volume, as each scholar works to recover the traces of long-past rituals in a particular set of materials, these and other concepts are consciously employed to guide or challenge the investigation, pushing beyond previous conclusions about ancient rituals. The contributors' attention to theory, and especially the social context, practical function, and symbolic interpretation, set this collection apart from studies that consider the rituals in more traditional textual ways.

Author : Jaime L. Waters
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 9781451499728
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Threshing Floors in Ancient Israel written by Jaime L. Waters and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revision of the author's dissertation, Johns Hopkins University, 2013 under the title Threshing floors as sacred spaces in the Hebrew Bible.