Ritual and Law in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-3-16-163879-4
Verlag: Mohr Siebeck

Buch, Englisch, Band 184, 273 Seiten, Leinen, Format (B × H): 232 mm x 155 mm, Gewicht: 560 g

Reihe: Forschungen zum Alten Testament

In diesem Band befassen sich die Autoren mit Ritual und Gesetz in der hebräischen Bibel und im Alten Orient. Die enthaltenen Studien behandeln verschiedene Texte und die materielle Kultur, kultische Rituale und vergleichende Mythologie.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Abusch, Tzvi

Stackert, Jeffrey

Lenzi, Alan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte Religion des alten Ägyptens
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Altes Testament: Exegese, Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte Religionen der Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Jeffrey Stackert: Preface - Alan Lenzi: Introduction - Jeffery M. Leonard: Curses and the Composition of Deuteronomy - Tina M. Sherman: Exodus 34 and the Strategic Use of Law in the Construction of National Identity - Jason M. H. Gaines: On Moses's Foreskin: Narrative Repurposing of the Circumcision Ritual in the Priestly Source - Joel S. Baden: The Decalogue in Deuteronomy and (then) in Exodus - Tamar Kamionkowski: The Concept of Desecration in Leviticus - Marc Zvi Brettler: YHWH's Laws in Psalms - Bruce Wells Identifying the Form of Enslavement in Exodus 21:20-21 - Madadh Richey: Elisha and the Bears (2 Kings 2:23-25) - Jeffrey Stackert Typicality and Verisimilitude in Neo-Assyrian and Judean Figural Representation - Ada Taggar-Cohen: The Status of Women in the Hittite Cult as Mirrored in Royal Ideology and Prescribed Rituals - Alan Lenzi: Exploring Manners, Etiquettes, and Protocols with Šuila-Prayer Ištar 1 - Tzvi Abusch / Emily Blanchard West: 'Awful Silence, Deathly Stillness': Fears and Anxieties among the Gods in Mesopotamian and Indic Literature

Über Autor(innen)

Lenzi, Alan
Born 1970; 2006 PhD in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies (Bible and Ancient Near East) from Brandeis University (Waltham, Massachusetts); Professor of History at University of the Pacific (Stockton, California).

Stackert, Jeffrey
Born 1977; 2006 PhD in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies (Bible and Ancient Near East) from Brandeis University (Waltham, Massachusetts); Professor of Hebrew Bible at the University of Chicago.

Abusch, Tzvi
Born 1940; Ph.D. Harvard University (Assyriology); Rose B. and Joseph Cohen Professor of Assyriology and Ancient Near Eastern Religion; emeritus Brandeis University.