Threshing floors in ancient Israel: their ritual and symbolic significance

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

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Subtitles:Threshing floors as sacred spaces in the Hebrew Bible
Main Author: Waters, Jaime L. (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Minneapolis, Minn. Fortress Press 2015
In:Year: 2015
Reviews:[Rezension von: WATERS, JAIME L., Threshing Floors in Ancient Israel: Their Ritual and Symbolic Significance] (2016) (Moore, Michael S., 1951 -)
Series/Journal:Emerging scholars
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Israel (Antiquity) / Threshing floor / Cultic site / Public space / Custom / Ritual
IxTheo Classification:HA Bible
Further subjects:B Judaism Customs and practices
B Public spaces (Palestine) Religious aspects
B Threshing (Palestine)
B Thesis
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Summary: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
Item Description:Revision of the author's dissertation, Johns Hopkins University, 2013 under the title Threshing floors as sacred spaces in the Hebrew Bible
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-197) and indexes
ISBN:1451485239