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Sacred Time, Sacred Place : Archaeology and the Religion of Israel /

Thirteen essays from an ASOR symposium on the relationship among archaeology, text and our understanding of ancient Israelite religion. Contributors include: J. Z. Smith, W. G. Dever, Z. Zevit, K. van der Toorn, J. M. Sasson, E. Bloch-Smith, S. Gitin, B. A. Levine, W. T. Pitard, T. J. Lewis, and B....

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bloch-Smith, Elizabeth (Contribuidor), Dever, William G. (Contribuidor), Gitin, Seymour (Contribuidor), Gittlen, Barry M. (Contribuidor, Editor ), Levine, Baruch A. (Contribuidor), Lewis, Theodore J. (Contribuidor), Pitard, Wayne T. (Contribuidor), Sasson, Jack M. (Contribuidor), Smith, Jonathan Z. (Contribuidor), Toorn, Karel van der (Contribuidor), Zevit, Ziony (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2021]
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Archaeology and the Religion of Israel
  • Part I. Charting the Course: The Relationship between Text and Artifact
  • Religion Up and Down, Out and In
  • Theology, Philology, and Archaeology: In the Pursuit of Ancient Israelite Religion
  • Philology and Archaeology: Imagining New Questions, Begetting New Ideas
  • Part II. Prayers in Clay: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Figurines
  • Israelite Figurines: A View from the Texts
  • On the Use of Images in Israel and the Ancient Near East: A Response to Karel van der Toorn
  • Part III. The Mythology of Sacred Space: Structure and Structuralism
  • Preamble to a Temple Tour
  • Solomon's Temple: The Politics of Ritual Space
  • The Four-Horned Altar and Sacred Space: An Archaeological Perspective
  • Ritual as Symbol: Modes of Sacrifice in Israelite Religion
  • Part IV. Death in the Life of Israel
  • Death in the Life of Israel
  • Tombs and Offerings: Archaeological Data and Comparative Methodology in the Study of Death in Israel
  • How Far Can Texts Take Us? Evaluating Textual Sources for Reconstructing Ancient Israelite Beliefs about the Dead
  • Indexes
  • Index of Authors
  • Index of Scripture