Research Catalog

Title

Social theory and the study of Israelite religion [electronic resource] : essays in retrospect and prospect / edited by Saul M. Olyan.

Publication

Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, c2012.

Details

Additional Authors

• Olyan, Saul M.
• American Council of Learned Societies.

Found In

ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org

Description

x, 219 p.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Resources for biblical study / Society of Biblical Literature ; no. 71

Uniform Title

• Resources for biblical study ; no. 71.
• ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Subject

• Bible. > Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Judaism > History > To 70 A.D
• Social sciences > Philosophy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Reproduction (note)

• Electronic text and image data.

Contents

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.

OCLC

(dli)HEB31349

Title

Social theory and the study of Israelite religion [electronic resource] : essays in retrospect and prospect / edited by Saul M. Olyan.

Imprint

Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, c2012.

Series

Resources for biblical study / Society of Biblical Literature ; no. 71

Resources for biblical study ; no. 71.

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Reproduction

Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2013. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet.

Connect to:

Available from home with a valid library card and onsite at NYPL

Added Author

Olyan, Saul M.

American Council of Learned Societies.

Found In:

ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org/

Other Form:

Original 9781589836884 (DLC) 2012017968