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Social theory and the study of Israelite religion : essays in retrospect and prospect /

This volume assesses the past, theoretically engaged work on Israelite religion and presents new approaches to particular problems and larger interpretive and methadological questions. It gathers previously unpublished research by senior and mid-career scholars well known for their contributions in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Olyan, Saul M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, ©2012.
Colección:Resources for biblical study ; no. 71.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Saul M. Olyan
  • Social theory and the study of Israelite religion : a retrospective on the past forty years of research / Robert R. Wilson
  • Cult centralization, the erosion of kin-based communities, and the implications for women's religious practice / Susan Ackerman
  • The Levites and sociocultural change in ancient Judah : insights from Gerhard Lenski's social theory / Stephen L. Cook
  • Away from ritual : the prophetic critique / Ronald Hendel
  • "They have become women" : Judean diaspora and postcolonial theories of gender and migration / T.M. Lemos
  • Text production and destruction in ancient Israel : ritual and political dimensions / Nathaniel B. Levtow
  • The function of feasts : an anthropological perspective on Israelite religious festivals / Carol Meyers
  • Theorizing violence in Biblical ritual contexts : the case of mourning rites / Saul M. Olyan
  • Theories regarding witchcraft accusations and the Hebrew Bible / Rüdiger Schmitt
  • Ritual theory, ritual texts, and the Priestly-Holiness writings of the Pentateuch / David P. Wright.