Innovating Ordination
In this article I study the ordination rituals for Priests and Levites contained in the Hebrew Bible acknowledging the different purposes which the rituals themselves present (sanctification for priests, purification for Levites). Noting the absence of a priestly purification ritual where procedures...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Mohr Siebeck
[2018]
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| In: |
Hebrew bible and ancient Israel
Year: 2018, Volume: 7, Issue: 4, Pages: 483-499 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bible. Pentateuch, Bible. Pentateuch
/ Priest
/ Levite
/ Ordination
/ Cultic purity
/ Social identity
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament |
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Presumably Free Access Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Summary: | In this article I study the ordination rituals for Priests and Levites contained in the Hebrew Bible acknowledging the different purposes which the rituals themselves present (sanctification for priests, purification for Levites). Noting the absence of a priestly purification ritual where procedures at the temple suggest that they some such ritual must have existed, it is suggested here, that the Levitical ordination ritual has its origin as a priestly purification ritual, but has now been reused in its current function to indicate the new lower status of the Levites when compared to the priests. |
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| ISSN: | 2192-2284 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Hebrew bible and ancient Israel
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1628/hebai-2018-0031 |