Violent rituals of the Hebrew Bible
Ritual violence prescribed -- Violent rites narrated -- Ritual violence envisioned -- Ritual inversion and mitigating rites -- The role of circumstantially dependent rites in ritual violence -- The social dimensions of ritual violence.
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Oxford University Press
[2019]
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| In: | Year: 2019 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Olyan, Saul M., 1959-, Violent rituals of the Hebrew Bible] (2022) (McClure, Albert L.)
[Rezension von: Olyan, Saul M., 1959-, Violent rituals of the Hebrew Bible] (2021) (Pitkänen, Pekka) |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Old Testament
/ Violence
/ Ritual
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| IxTheo Classification: | NBA Dogmatics NBC Doctrine of God |
| Further subjects: | B
Ritual
Biblical teaching
B Violence in the Bible B Bible. Old Testament Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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| Parallel Edition: | Electronic
Electronic |
| Summary: | Ritual violence prescribed -- Violent rites narrated -- Ritual violence envisioned -- Ritual inversion and mitigating rites -- The role of circumstantially dependent rites in ritual violence -- The social dimensions of ritual violence. "Although seldom studied by biblical scholars as a discrete phenomenon, ritual violence is mentioned frequently in biblical texts, and includes ritual actions such as disfigurement of corpses, destruction or scattering of bones removed from a tomb, stoning and other forms of public execution, cursing, forced depilation, the legally-sanctioned imposition of physical defects on living persons, coerced potion-drinking, sacrificial burning of animals and humans, forced stripping and exposure of the genitalia, and mass eradication of populations. This book, the first to focus on ritual violence in the Hebrew Bible, investigates these and other violent rites, the ritual settings in which they occur (e.g., the temple, the royal court, the battlefield), their various literary contexts (e.g., legal texts, narrative, visions, dreams and oracles), and the identity and aims of their agents in order to speak in an informed way about the contours and social aspects of ritual violence as it is represented in the Hebrew Bible. Violence, ritual violence, ritual, law, narrative, visions, dreams, oracles, ritual theory, social relationships, sacrifice"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| ISBN: | 019068190X |