In the Archeological Record from the Iron II C to the Persian and Hellenistic Periods in JudahĬhapter 7. Diversity and Centralization of the Temple Cult The Textualization of Priestly Ritual in Light of Hittite SourcesĬhapter 6. Between Text and Ritual: The Function(s) of the Ritual Texts from Late Bronze Age Emar (Syria)Ĭhapter 5. Inscriptions and Ritual Practices in the Neo- Assyrian Period: The Construction of a Building as an ExampleĬhapter 4. Between Utterance and Dedication: Some Remarks on the Status of Textuality in Greek Ritual PracticesĬhapter 3. Rituals in the Spells of the Book of the Dead in Ancient EgyptĬhapter 2. Gane, Andrews University Seminary StudiesĬhapter 1. Important scholars in the field labor to advance the application of ritual studies, biblical intertextuality, rhetorical analysis, ancient Near Eastern comparative material, and related postbiblical literature to understanding the texts and ritual procedures in the Pentateuch.” -Richard Averbeck, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School “ Text and Ritual in the Pentateuch is a rich collection of data and interactions with scholarship, and the numerous insights in this volume make it an important resource for advanced students of pentateuchal ritual texts.” -Roy E. “The contributions to Text and Ritual in the Pentateuch contrast the relationship between text and ritual in ancient Israel with that of other ancient Mediterranean and Western Asian societies and thus gain new insights for the challenge of reconstructing the performance of ancient rituals from written sources.” -Thomas Hieke, author of Die Genealogien der Genesis “This volume is an important and timely contribution to the scholarly study of ritual texts and procedures in the Pentateuch and the Hebrew Bible as a whole. Gilders, Dominique Jaillard, Giuseppina Lenzo, Lionel Marti, Patrick Michel, Rüdiger Schmitt, Jeremy D. Falk, Yitzhaq Feder, Christian Frevel, William K. In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume include Dorothea Erbele-Küster, Daniel K. Topics include ritual textualization in ancient Anatolia, Egypt, Greece, and Mesopotamia the importance of archaeology and materiality for the study of text and ritual in ancient Israel the relationship between ritual textualization and standardization in the Pentateuch the reception of pentateuchal ritual texts in Second Temple writings and rabbinic literature and the relationship between text and ritual in the Dead Sea Scrolls. This systematic and comparative study of text and ritual in the first five books of the Hebrew Bible maps the main areas of consensus and disagreement among scholars engaged in articulating new models for understanding the relationship between text and ritual and explores the importance of comparative evidence for the study of pentateuchal rituals. This volume explores the processes of ritual textualization (the creation of a written version of a ritual) in ancient Israel by probing the main conceptual and methodological issues that inform the study of this topic in the Pentateuch. Yet it is often unclear how these sources would have been understood or used by ancient audiences in the actual performance of cult. The first five books of the Hebrew Bible contain a significant number of texts describing ritual practices.
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