Threshing Floors in Ancient Israel: Their Ritual and Symbolic Significance

Vital to an agrarian community's survival, threshing floors are also depicted in the Hebrew Bible as sites for mourning rites, divination rituals, cultic processions, and sacrifices. Jaime L. Waters examines these sacred functions and the various personnel active in the use and operation of the...

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Main Author: Waters, Jaime L. (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Bloomfield Augsburg Fortress Publishers 2015
In:Year: 2015
Edition:1st ed.
Series/Journal:Emerging Scholars Series
IxTheo Classification:HA Bible
Further subjects:B Bible. -- Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- History
B Bible. -- Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish -- History
B Judaism -- Doctrines
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Parallel Edition:Erscheint auch als: 9781451485233
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Summary:Vital to an agrarian community's survival, threshing floors are also depicted in the Hebrew Bible as sites for mourning rites, divination rituals, cultic processions, and sacrifices. Jaime L. Waters examines these sacred functions and the various personnel active in the use and operation of the sites and shows that they were sacred spaces connected to Yahweh, under his control and subject to his power to bless, curse, and save, providing Israel a special ritual access to Yahweh. ,.
Intro -- Threshing Floors in Ancient Israel -- Threshing Floors in Ancient Israel -- -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Divine Control and Use of Threshing Floors -- Threshing Floors in Legal Contexts -- Threshing Floors as Sacred Spaces -- Temple Construction upon a Threshing Floor -- Conclusion -- Addendum: Threshing Floors as Sacred Spaces in Ugarit -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Bible and Ancient Literature.
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Physical Description:1 online resource (223 pages)
ISBN:978-1-4514-9660-4