A Kingdom of Priests : Ancestry and Merit in Ancient Judaism /
According to the account in the Book of Exodus, God addresses the children of Israel as they stand before Mt. Sinai with the words, "You shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation" (19:6). The sentence, Martha Himmelfarb observes, is paradoxical, for priests are by definition a...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2013]
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Colección: | Jewish Culture and Contexts
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