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Ritual in Deuteronomy: The Performance of Doom [Kõva köide]

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  • Formaat: Hardback, 170 pages, kõrgus x laius: 234x156 mm, kaal: 640 g, 2 Tables, black and white
  • Sari: The Ancient Word
  • Ilmumisaeg: 20-Apr-2021
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 1138570982
  • ISBN-13: 9781138570986
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  • Formaat: Hardback, 170 pages, kõrgus x laius: 234x156 mm, kaal: 640 g, 2 Tables, black and white
  • Sari: The Ancient Word
  • Ilmumisaeg: 20-Apr-2021
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 1138570982
  • ISBN-13: 9781138570986
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"Ritual in Deuteronomy explores the symbolic world of Deuteronomy's ritual covenant and curses through a lens of religious studies and anthropology, drawing on previously unexamined Mesopotamian material. This book focuses on the ritual material in Deuteronomy including commands regarding sacrifice, prayer objects, and especially the dramatic ritual enactment of the covenant including curses. The book's most unique feature is an entirely new comparative study of Deut 27-30 with two ritual texts from Mesopotamia. No studies to date have undertaken a comparison of Deut 27-30 with ancient Near Eastern ritual texts outside of the treaty oath tradition. This fresh comparison illuminates how the ritual life of ancient Israel shaped the literary form of Deuteronomy and concludes that the performance of oaths was a social strategy, addressing contemporary anxieties and reinforcing systems of cultural power. This book offers a fascinating comparative study which will be of interest to undergraduate and graduate students in biblical studies, classical Hebrew, theology, and ancient Near Eastern studies. The book's more technical aspects will also appeal to scholars of the Pentateuch, Deuteronomy, Biblical Law, Ancient Near Eastern History, Mesopotamian Studies, andClassics"--

Ritual in Deuteronomy explores the symbolic world of Deuteronomy’s ritual covenant and curses through a lens of religious studies and anthropology, drawing on previously unexamined Mesopotamian material.

This book focuses on the ritual material in Deuteronomy including commands regarding sacrifice, prayer objects, and especially the dramatic ritual enactment of the covenant including curses. The book’s most unique feature is an entirely new comparative study of Deut 27-30 with two ritual texts from Mesopotamia. No studies to date have undertaken a comparison of Deut 27-30 with ancient Near Eastern ritual texts outside of the treaty oath tradition. This fresh comparison illuminates how the ritual life of ancient Israel shaped the literary form of Deuteronomy and concludes that the performance of oaths was a social strategy, addressing contemporary anxieties and reinforcing systems of cultural power.

This book offers a fascinating comparative study which will be of interest to undergraduate and graduate students in biblical studies, classical Hebrew, theology, and ancient Near Eastern studies. The book’s more technical aspects will also appeal to scholars of the Pentateuch, Deuteronomy, Biblical Law, Ancient Near Eastern History, Mesopotamian Studies, and Classics.

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"The book contains many important and insightful avenues of thoughtfrom focusing on ritual in a new way in Deuteronomy to expanding the comparative material valuable to a study of Deuteronomybut the most important achievement in my opinion is the demonstration of how to read Deut 2730 responsibly in a synchronic way... Her focus on ritual, and in particular the performance of ritual in conjunction with ratification of oaths/covenants, shifts the conversation of Deut 27 in profound and helpful ways." - Bryn Mawr Classical Review

List of tables
ix
Preface and Acknowledgments x
List of abbreviations
xiii
Introduction 1(8)
1 Ritual Studies And Deuteronomy
9(38)
1.1 Introduction
9(2)
1.2 Ritual studies and Deuteronomy
11(13)
1.3 Prior and current scholarship on Deut 27-30
24(7)
1.4 Oral and ritual performance of treaty forms and curse themes
31(5)
1.5 Conclusion
36(11)
2 The Ritual Performance Of Oaths
47(26)
2.1 Introduction
47(1)
2.2 Oaths, treaties, and ritual studies
48(4)
2.3 The performance of treaties and covenants
52(6)
2.4 Ritual action in treaties, covenants, and incantations
58(8)
2.5 Conclusion
66(7)
3 Deuteronomy 27-30 And Incantation Rituals
73(32)
3.1 Common social rhetoric and symbolic system
73(6)
3.2 Parallel curse sequence and structural formulation
79(3)
3.3 Congruent curse themes in Deut 27-30 and Maqlii and Surpu
82(6)
3.4 Cosmological setting and the significance of city gates
88(5)
3.5 Propagation of curses
93(5)
3.6 Conclusion
98(7)
4 Ritual And The Literary Unity Of Deuteronomy 27-28
105(25)
4.1 Introduction
105(3)
4.2 Curse inscriptions in the ancient Near East and in the Levant
108(6)
4.3 What was written on the stones? Literary analysis of Deuteronomy 27
114(8)
4.4 Conclusion
122(8)
5 Ritual Innovation In Deuteronomy
130(21)
5.1 Introduction
130(1)
5.2 Deuteronomy 12 and the Law of Centralization
131(6)
5.3 Ritual innovation in Deuteronomy 6
137(9)
5.4 Conclusion
146(5)
Conclusion 151(5)
Bibliography 156(10)
Index 166
Melissa D. Ramos is Assistant Professor of Biblical Studies at Portland Seminary of George Fox University, USA. Her research interests include ritual in the Hebrew Bible, loyalty oaths, and feminist hermeneutical approaches.