Unrolling the Scroll, Revealing God: Esther Scrolls as Symbols and Ritual Objects
Like the Torah scroll, the Esther scroll in Jewish life serves as not only a technology of text, but a symbolically charged ritual object for the liturgical theater of Purim ritual. This paper argues that in late antique Purim liturgy, the symbolic act of unrolling the scroll for the megillah readin...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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The National Association of Professors of Hebrew
2023
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Hebrew studies
Year: 2023, Volume: 64, Issue: 1, Pages: 57-81 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bible. Pentateuch, Bible. Pentateuch
/ Esther
/ Megillot
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| IxTheo Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion HB Old Testament HD Early Judaism |
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