Vom Opfer zur Auslösung: Analyse ausgewählter Texte zum Thema Erstgeburt im Alten Testament
In the present study the relevant texts in the Hebrew Bible concerning sacrifice orredemption of the first born of humans and animals are considered in detail. The mostimportant findings are the following: 1. An Israelite could understand the instructionsin Ex. xxii 28f. to mean that he should sacri...
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| Language: | German |
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Brill
2006
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Vetus Testamentum
Year: 2006, Volume: 56, Issue: 1, Pages: 21-45 |
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| Summary: | In the present study the relevant texts in the Hebrew Bible concerning sacrifice orredemption of the first born of humans and animals are considered in detail. The mostimportant findings are the following: 1. An Israelite could understand the instructionsin Ex. xxii 28f. to mean that he should sacrifice his first-born child to JHWH. 2. Ez.xx 25f. describes such first-born sacrifices for JHWH as practised. Therefore it cannotbe ruled out that in early Israel at a particular time such a sacrificial practice couldindeed have occurred. 3. In the laws of the first-born in the Book of Covenant, in theDodecalogue and in the original layer of Num. xviii 15-18 (P) the corresponding termsbekôr and pe†er rekhem refer to the male and female first-born of human and animal.The regulation in Deut. xv, to consecrate only the male first-born clean animals toJHWH and to consume them in JHWH’s presence during the Feast, is connected witha clearly farmer-friendly tendency of the deuteronomic law-maker. Apart from that alimitation to the male first-born prevails only in the later post-exilic period. Accordingto the note in Num. xviii 16, the redemption of the human first-born applies only tomale children; according to the law of the first-born in Exod. xiii only the male first-born of human and animal (of female Israelites and animals) are affected. |
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| Item Description: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 42-45 |
| ISSN: | 1568-5330 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Vetus Testamentum
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/156853306775465162 |