The Origins Of Early Semitic Ritual

Author : S. H. Hooke
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781556353710

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The Origins of Early Semitic Ritual by S. H. Hooke Pdf

In these lectures an attempt is made to relate the ritual practices of the Hebrews, as contained in the Old Testament, to the larger field of the elaborate rituals of Mesopotamian civilization, and to what we know of the early ritual of Canaan. . . . The first lecture is devoted to a survey of the sources from which our knowledge of Mesopotamian ritual is derived and to a description of the general character of the most important types of Mesopotamian ritual. . . . The second lecture attempts to do the same thing for the early ritual of Canaan. . . . The last lecture attempts to set the principal ritual practices and institutions of the Hebrews, as contained in the Old Testament and the Mishnah, in the perspective of the Mesopotamian and Canaanite pattern described in the first two lectures, to estimate their debt to these sources, and to arrive at some conception of the historical development of Hebrew ritual. . . . It is becoming clear that in the earliest stages of religion, myth and ritual are inseparably connected, and that their study must be carried on side by side. --from the Preface

Author : Samuel Henry Hooke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Judaism
ISBN : OCLC:186939327

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The Origins of Early Semitic Ritual by Samuel Henry Hooke Pdf

Author : Samuel H. Hooke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0811512770

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The Origins of Early Semitic Ritual by Samuel H. Hooke Pdf

Author : Bryan C. Babcok
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781575068770

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Sacred Ritual by Bryan C. Babcok Pdf

Israelite festival calendar texts (Exod 23; 34; Lev 23; Num 28–29; Deut 16; and Ezek 45) share many features; however, there are also differences. Some of the most-often-cited differences are the following: festival dates, festival locations, date of the New Year, festival timing, and festival names. Scholars have explored these distinctions, and many have concluded that different sources (authors/redactors) wrote the various calendars at different times in Israelite history. Scholars use these dissimilarities to argue that Lev 23 was written in the exilic or postexilic era. Babcock offers a new translation and analysis of a second-millennium B.C. multimonth ritual calendar text from Emar (Emar 446) to challenge the late dating of Lev 23. Babcock argues that Lev 23 preserves an early (2nd-millennium) West Semitic ritual tradition. Building on the recent work of Klingbeil and Sparks, this book presents a new comparative methodology for exploring potential textual relationships. Babcock investigates the attributes of sacred ritual through the lens of sacred time, sacred space and movement, sacred objects, ritual participants, and ritual sound. The author begins with a study of ancient Near Eastern festival texts from the 3rd millennium through the 1st millennium. This analysis focuses on festival cycles, common festival attributes, and the role of time and space in ritual. Babcock then moves on to an intertextual study of biblical festival texts before completing a thorough investigation of both Lev 23 and Emar 446. The result is a compelling argument that Lev 23 preserves an early West Semitic festival tradition and does not date to the exilic era—refuting the scholarly consensus. This illuminating reading stands as a model for future research in the field of ritual and comparative textual studies.

Author : J. W. Rogerson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110811469

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Myth in old testament interpretation by J. W. Rogerson Pdf

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Author : R. J. Thompson
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Atonement (Judaism)
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Penitence and Sacrifice in Early Israel Outside the Levitical Law by R. J. Thompson Pdf

Author : Avner Falk
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 868 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0838636608

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A Psychoanalytic History of the Jews by Avner Falk Pdf

This includes the evolution of the Hebrew religion as a projective response to the inner conflicts produced by the human family; the sociopsychological development of the Israelite kingdoms in Canaan; the fascinating duality of Jewish life in the "Diaspora"; and the emotional ties of the Jews to their idealized motherland from the Babylonian exile to modern political Zionism.

Author : Otto Rank,Fitzroy Richard Somerset Raglan,Alan Dundes
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1990-11-21
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0691020620

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In Quest of the Hero by Otto Rank,Fitzroy Richard Somerset Raglan,Alan Dundes Pdf

In Quest of the Hero makes available for a new generation of readers two key works on hero myths: Otto Rank's Myth of the Birth of the Hero and the central section of Lord Raglan's The Hero. Amplifying these is Alan Dundes's fascinating contemporary inquiry, "The Hero Pattern and the Life of Jesus." Examined here are the patterns found in the lore surrounding historical or legendary figures like Gilgamesh, Moses, David, Oedipus, Odysseus, Perseus, Heracles, Aeneas, Romulus, Siegfried, Lohengrin, Arthur, and Buddha. Rank's monograph remains the classic application of Freudian theory to hero myths. In The Hero the noted English ethnologist Raglan singles out the myth-ritualist pattern in James Frazer's many-sided Golden Bough and applies that pattern to hero myths. Dundes, the eminent folklorist at the University of California at Berkeley, applies the theories of Rank, Raglan, and others to the case of Jesus. In his introduction to this selection from Rank, Raglan, and Dundes, Robert Segal, author of the major study of Joseph Campbell, charts the history of theorizing about hero myths and compares the approaches of Rank, Raglan, Dundes, and Campbell.

Author : Jens Kreinath,J.A.M. Snoek,Michael Stausberg
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 803 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047410775

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Theorizing Rituals, Volume 1: Issues, Topics, Approaches, Concepts by Jens Kreinath,J.A.M. Snoek,Michael Stausberg Pdf

Volume one of Theorizing Rituals assembles 34 leading scholars from various countries and disciplines working within this field.

Author : Norman H. Snaith
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498295680

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The Jewish New Year Festival by Norman H. Snaith Pdf

"This study has its origin in a twenty-year-old interest in Sigmund Mowinckel's theory of an annual new year Coronation Feast of Jehovah in Israel. The first outcome of this interest was a volume entitled Studies in the Psalter (1934) in which I endeavored to show that the psalms which Mowinckel associated most closely with this supposed Coronation Feast were actually post-exilic, and in any case were Sabbath psalms. It is impossible, if my thesis is sound, that these psalms could ever have been and the apparatus of a pre-exilic feast of the type which Mowinckel proposed." --From the Preface

Author : Thomas L. Thompson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317543428

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Biblical Narrative and Palestine's History by Thomas L. Thompson Pdf

Modern biblical scholarship's commitment to the historical-critical method in its efforts to write a history of Israel has created the central and unavoidable problem of writing an objective and critical history of Palestine through the biblical literature with the methods of Biblical Archaeology. 'Biblical Narrative and Palestine's History' brings together key essays on historical method and the archaeology and history of Palestine. The essays employ comparative and formalistic techniques to illuminate the allegorical and mythical in Old Testament narrative traditions from Genesis to Nehemiah. In so doing, the volume presents a detailed review of central and radical changes in both our understanding of biblical traditions and the archaeology and history of Palestine. The study offers an analysis of Biblical narrative as rooted in ancient Near Eastern literature since the Bronze Age.

Author : Thomas B. Dozeman
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506423319

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The Pentateuch by Thomas B. Dozeman Pdf

The Pentateuch is the heart of the Hebrew Bible and the foundational document of Judaism. It is also the focus of tremendous scholarly debate regarding the complex history of its composition. This history will be explored along with analysis of the historical background and ancient Near Eastern parallels for its primeval history, its ancestry narratives and laws, the theological purposes of its final redaction, and its diverse interpretation in communities today. This textbook introduces students to the contents of the Torah and orients them to the key interpretive questions and methods shaping contemporary scholarship, inviting readers into the work of interpretation today. Pedagogical features include images, maps, timelines, reading lists, and a glossary.

Author : Sarah Iles Johnston
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674185074

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The Story of Myth by Sarah Iles Johnston Pdf

Sarah Iles Johnston argues that the nature of myths as gripping tales starring vivid characters enabled them to do their most important work: sustaining belief in the gods and heroes of Greek religion. She shows how Greek myths—and the stories told by all cultures—affect our shared view of the cosmos and the creatures who inhabit it.

Author : E.O. James
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000156423

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The Beginnings of Religion by E.O. James Pdf

In this book, first published in 1948, an attempt has been made to provide an intelligible introduction to a somewhat complex aspect of scientific inquiry. And secondly, to construct a background of ‘primitive’ ritual and belief against which the more developed religions can be placed. This book is a valuable, early attempt at explaining the beginnings of religion from a modern scientific viewpoint.

Author : Christopher R. North
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781606087145

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The Old Testament Interpretation of History by Christopher R. North Pdf

'The religious experience without the vision of History would be empty, the historical event without the religious experience, blind.' In this book Professor Christopher North accepts Robert Winkler's statement, and treats 'event' and 'idea' as necessarily linked in any true interpretation of Old Testament history. He outlines 'the several stages in the Hebrew interpretation of history and considers whether that interpretation . . . was altogether or approximately true, and whether the actual course of Hebrew history . . . warrants us in believing . . . that there was a special providence and purpose in God's dealings with Israel.'