Olyan Rites and Rank

Hierarchy in Biblical Representations of Cult
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Saul M. Olyan is Dorot Professor of Judaic Studies, Professor of Religious Studies, and Director of the Program in Judaic Studies at Brown University. He is the author of A Thousand Thousands Served Him: Exegesis and the Naming of Angels in Ancient Judaism and Asherah and the Cult of Yahweh in Israel.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Olyan, Saul M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

List of Abbretiations xi

Introduction 3

Status and Hierarchy 7

Cultic and Quasi-Cultic Settings 10

Rites and Rank 11

1. Foundational Discourse: The Opposition Holy/Common 15

Holiness and Privilege 27

Conclusion 35

2.Admission or Exclusion: The Binary Pairing Unclean/Clean 38

Sources of Impurity 40

Degrees of Pollution and the Requirements of Purification 50

The Hierarchical Dimensions of UncleanlClean 54

Conclusion 61

3.Generating "Self" and "Other"- The Polarity Israelite/Alien 63

Forms and Functions of the Polarity Israelite/Alien 64

Contesting Alien Exclusion from Israel and Its Cultic Life 90

Cultural Mechanisms of Alien Incorporation into Israel 93

Conclusion 99

4.The Qualified Body: The Dyad Whole/Blemished 103

Blemishes and Inequality 111

Conclusion 113

Conclusion 115

Appendix. The Idea of Holiness in the Holiness Source 121

Notes 123

Index of Authors 175

Index of Biblical Citations 179

Über Autor(innen)

Saul M. Olyan is Dorot Professor of Judaic Studies, Professor of Religious Studies, and Director of the Program in Judaic Studies at Brown University. He is the author of A Thousand Thousands Served Him: Exegesis and the Naming of Angels in Ancient Judaism and Asherah and the Cult of Yahweh in Israel.