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Ritual violence in the Hebrew Bible : new perspectives
- Title
- Ritual violence in the Hebrew Bible : new perspectives / edited by Saul M. Olyan.
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2015]
- ©2015
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Olyan, Saul M.
- Description
- x, 190 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- "This volume is intended to bring into relief the full range of violent rites represented in the Hebrew Bible many rarely, if ever, consider. It seeks to explore what acts of ritual violence might accomplish socio-politically in their particular settings and the ways in which engagement with theory from a variety of disciplines can contribute to our understanding of ritual violence as a phenomenon"--
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Contents
- Introduction: Ritual violence in the Hebrew Bible / Saul M. Olyan -- What ends might ritual violence accomplish? The case of Rechab and Baanah in 2 Samuel 4 / Debra Scoggins Ballentine -- Dispossessing nations: population growth, scarcity, and genocide in ancient Israel and twentieth-century Rwanda / T.M. Lemos -- Between politics and mythology: Josiah's assault on Bethel in 2 Kings 23:15-20 / Mark Leuchter -- Cognitive perspectives on iconoclasm / Nathaniel B. Levtow -- "The traffic in women": exchange, ritual sacrifice, and war / Susan Niditch -- The instrumental dimensions of ritual violence against corpses in biblical texts / Saul M. Olyan -- Establishing communitas: royal rites of military loyalty and their socio-religious function / Rüdiger Schmitt -- Urbicide: the ritualized killing of cities in the ancient Near East / Jacob L. Wright.
- Call Number
- *PDB 16-65
- ISBN
- 9780190249588 (alk. paper)
- 0190249587 (alk. paper)
- 9780190249595 (ebook)
- 0190249595 (ebook)
- LCCN
- 2015004627
- OCLC
- 902937152
- Title
- Ritual violence in the Hebrew Bible : new perspectives / edited by Saul M. Olyan.
- Publisher
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2015]
- Copyright Date
- ©2015
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Added Author
- Olyan, Saul M., editor.
- Research Call Number
- *PDB 16-65