{"product_id":"text-and-ritual-in-the-pentateuch-a-systematic-and-comparative-approach-9781646021413","title":"Text and Ritual in the Pentateuch: A Systematic","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first five books of the Hebrew Bible contain a significant number of texts describing ritual practices. Yet it is often unclear how these sources would have been understood or used by ancient audiences in the actual performance of cult. This volume explores the processes of ritual textualization (the creation of a written version of a ritual) in ancient Israel by probing the main conceptual and methodological issues that inform the study of this topic in the Pentateuch.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis systematic and comparative study of text and ritual in the first five books of the Hebrew Bible maps the main areas of consensus and disagreement among scholars engaged in articulating new models for understanding the relationship between text and ritual and explores the importance of comparative evidence for the study of pentateuchal rituals. Topics include ritual textualization in ancient Anatolia, Egypt, Greece, and Mesopotamia; the importance of archaeology and materiality for the study of text and ritual in ancient Israel; the relationship between ritual textualization and standardization in the Pentateuch; the reception of pentateuchal ritual texts in Second Temple writings and rabbinic literature; and the relationship between text and ritual in the Dead Sea Scrolls.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume include Dorothea Erbele-Küster, Daniel K. Falk, Yitzhaq Feder, Christian Frevel, William K. Gilders, Dominique Jaillard, Giuseppina Lenzo, Lionel Marti, Patrick Michel, Rüdiger Schmitt, Jeremy D. Smoak, and James W. Watts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The contributions to \u003ci\u003eText and Ritual in the Pentateuch\u003c\/i\u003e contrast the relationship between text and ritual in ancient Israel with that of other ancient Mediterranean and Western Asian societies and thus gain new insights for the challenge of reconstructing the performance of ancient rituals from written sources.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Thomas Hieke,author of \u003ci\u003eDie Genealogien der Genesis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This volume is an important and timely contribution to the scholarly study of ritual texts and procedures in the Pentateuch and the Hebrew Bible as a whole. Important scholars in the field labor to advance the application of ritual studies, biblical intertextuality, rhetorical analysis, ancient Near Eastern comparative material, and related postbiblical literature to understanding the texts and ritual procedures in the Pentateuch.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Richard Averbeck,Trinity Evangelical Divinity School\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eText and Ritual in the Pentateuch\u003c\/i\u003e is a rich collection of data and interactions with scholarship, and the numerous insights in this volume make it an important resource for advanced students of pentateuchal ritual texts.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Roy E. Gane \u003ci\u003eAndrews University Seminary Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Abbreviations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u2028Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristophe Nihan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1. Rituals in the Spells of the \u003ci\u003eBook of the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e in Ancient Egypt\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGiuseppina Lenzo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2. Between Utterance and Dedication: Some Remarks on the Status of Textuality in Greek Ritual Practices\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDominique Jaillard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3. Inscriptions and Ritual Practices in the Neo- Assyrian Period: The Construction of a Building as an Example\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLionel Marti\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4. Between Text and Ritual: The Function(s) of the Ritual Texts from Late Bronze Age Emar (Syria)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePatrick Michel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5. The Textualization of Priestly Ritual in Light of Hittite Sources\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eYitzhaq Feder\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6. Diversity and Centralization of the Temple Cult\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ein the Archeological Record from the Iron II C to the Persian and Hellenistic Periods in Judah\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRüdiger Schmitt\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7. Texts Are Not Rituals, and Rituals Are Not Texts, with an Example from Leviticus 12\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJames W. Watts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8. The Texture of Rituals in the Book of Numbers:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Fresh Approach to Ritual Density, the Role of Tradition, and the Emergence of Diversity in Early Judaism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristian Frevel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9. Speaking with a Divine Voice: The Rhetoric of Epistolary Performance in Numbers 6:22–27\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJeremy D. Smoak\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10. The Ritual Texts of Leviticus and the Creation of Ritualized Bodies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDorothea Erbele-Küster\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 11. The Reception of Ritual Laws in the Early Second\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTemple Period: Evidence from Ezra- Nehemiah and Chronicles\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJulia Rhyder\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 12. Text and Ritual in the Dead Sea Scrolls\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaniel K. Falk\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 13. “And They Would Read Before Him the Order\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efor the Day”: The Textuality of Leviticus 16 in Mishnah Yoma,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTosefta Kippurim, and Sifra Aḥare Mot\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWilliam K. Gilders\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex of Ancient Sources\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSubject Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pennsylvania State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50114185527639,"sku":"9781646021413","price":92.61,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781646021413.jpg?v=1741175979","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/text-and-ritual-in-the-pentateuch-a-systematic-and-comparative-approach-9781646021413","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}