Creative waters: Semantic and ritual innovation in the Book of Numbers
The article examines how water features in different rituals in Leviticus and Numbers. It starts by providing an overview of how water is used in Leviticus and Numbers for cleansing and other rituals, focusing on cases where water is mixed with something else. Then, the article focuses on three peri...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2024
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HTS teologiese studies
Year: 2024, Volume: 80, Issue: 2 |
| Further subjects: | B
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B Water Concoctions B Numbers 5 B Ritual Texts B Leviticus B Numbers 8 B Ritual Innovation B Cleansing Rituals |
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| Summary: | The article examines how water features in different rituals in Leviticus and Numbers. It starts by providing an overview of how water is used in Leviticus and Numbers for cleansing and other rituals, focusing on cases where water is mixed with something else. Then, the article focuses on three pericopes from the Book of Numbers that describe concoctions of water mixed with other substances. These concoctions are given specific names in Numbers. Lastly, the article discusses diachronic arguments about these ritual texts.Contribution: The article shows the creativity that the authors of Numbers employed in reworking and innovating ritual texts from Leviticus. |
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| ISSN: | 2072-8050 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: HTS teologiese studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.4102/hts.v80i2.9929 |
