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Threshing floors in ancient Israel : their ritual and symbolic significance /
Vital to an agrarian community's survival, threshing floors are agricultural spaces where crops are threshed and winnowed. But the Hebrew Bible rarely refers to such agricultural activities taking place at such sites. Instead, biblical narratives repeatedly depict threshing floors in ancient Is...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis [Minnesota] :
Fortress Press,
[2015]
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2015. |
| Colección: | Emerging scholars.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Vital to an agrarian community's survival, threshing floors are agricultural spaces where crops are threshed and winnowed. But the Hebrew Bible rarely refers to such agricultural activities taking place at such sites. Instead, biblical narratives repeatedly depict threshing floors in ancient Israel as sites for mourning rites, divination rituals, cultic processions, and sacrifices. Kings consult prophets there; even the Solomonic temple was built on a threshing floor. Jaime L. Waters shows that these originally agricultural sites were also considered sacred spaces connected to Yahweh, under his control, and subject to his power to bless, curse, and save and that Israel had a special ritual access to Yahweh in these powerfully symbolic sites. Waters also examines the various personnel active in the use and operation of threshing floors in these sacred functions in order to draw a more complete picture of ancient Israelite social life. An addendum discusses relevant material for comparison from Ugarit. |
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| Notas: | Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Johns Hopkins University, 2013, under the title: Threshing floors as sacred spaces in the Hebrew Bible. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (1 PDF (207 pages)) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-197) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9781451496604 1451496605 |