The Oxford Handbook of Ritual and Worship in the Hebrew Bible (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Balentine, Samuel E.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Ritual has a primal connection to the idea that a transcendent order - numinous and mysterious, supranatural and elusive, divine and wholly other - gives meaning and purpose to life. The construction of rites and rituals enables humans to conceive and apprehend this transcendent order, to symbolize it and interact with it, to postulate its truths in the face of contradicting realities and to repair them when they have been breached or diminished. This Handbook provides a compendium of the information essential for constructing a comprehensive and integrated account of ritual and worship in the ancient world. Its focus on ritual and worship from the perspective of biblical studies, as opposed to religious studies, highlights that the world of ritual and worship was a topic of central concern for the people of the Ancient Near East, including the world of the Bible. Given the scarcity of the material in the Bible itself, the authors in this collection use materials from the ancient Near East to provide a larger context for the practices of the biblical world, giving due attention to historical, anthropological, and social scientific methods that inform the context of biblical worship. The specifics of ritual and worship life-the sacred spaces, times, and actors in worship-are examined in detail, with essays covering both the divine and human aspects of the sacred dimension. The Oxford Handbook of Ritual and Worship in the Hebrew Bible considers several underlying concepts of ritual practice and closes with a theological outlook on worship and ritual from a variety of perspectives, demonstrating a fruitful exchange between biblical studies, ritual theory, and social science research.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 640
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190944933
• Artikelnr.: 60397258

Autorenporträt

Samuel E. Balentine is Professor of Old Testament and Director of Graduate Studies, Union Presbyterian Seminary, Richmond, VA.

Inhaltsangabe

* Contents
* Preface
* List of Contributors
* 1. Introduction, Samuel E. Balentine
* Part I. Historical Contexts
* 2. Mesopotamian Religion, Tzvi Abusch
* 3. Ritual and Worship in Ancient Egypt, Emily Teeter
* 4. The Hittites Serve their Gods, Gary Beckman
* 5. Syria-Palestine: Worship and Rituals, Adrian Curtis
* 6. The Greeks and their Rituals, Barbara Kowalzig
* Part II. Interpretive Approaches
* 7. History of Religion, Lester Grabbe
* 8. Rituals and Ritual Theory: A Methodological Essay, Ithamar
Gruenwald
* 9. Social and Cultural Anthropology, William Gilders
* Part III. Ritual Elements: Participants, Places, Times, Objects,
Practices
* 10. God, Gods, and Humankkind (Worldview), Friedhelm Hartenstein
* 11. Sacred Space and Common Space, Michael Hundley
* 12. Ritual Experts and Participants in the Ancient Near East and the
Hebrew Bible, Thomas Hieke
* 13. Sacred Times and Ritual Times, Andrew Davis
* 14. Ritual Objects and Artifacts, Ryan Bonfiglio
* 15. Ritual and Religious Practices, Roy Gane
* 16. Ritualizing Iconic Jewish Texts, James W. Watts
* 17. Ritualizing Christian Iconic Texts, Dori Parmenter
* 18. Ritualizing Muslim Texts, Jonas Svensson
* Part IV. Cultural and Theological Perspectives
* 19. Sin and Expiation, David Janzen
* 20. Clean/Unclean, Pure/Impure, Holy/Profane, Jonathan Lawrence
* 21. Sickness and Healing, Deborah Rooke
* 22. Death and Afterlife, Brian Schmidt
* 23. Divine Presence and Absence, Angelika Berlejung
* Part V. History of Interpretation
* 24. Ritual and Worship at Qumran, Eileen Schuller
* 25. Influence on Early Christian Worship, Paul Bradshaw
* 26. Ritual and Worship in Early Judaism, Judith Newman
* 27. Rabbinic Judaism, Stefan Reif
* Part VI. Socio-Cultural Functions
* 28. The Politics of Worship, William S. Morrow
* 29. The Ethics of Worship, Eryl Davies
* 30. Socio-Religious Functions of Worship, Stephen L. Cook
* 31. The Economics of Worship in Ancient Israel and Judah, Joachim
Schaper
* Part VII. Theology and Theological Heritage
* 32. Ritual Theology in/and Biblical Theology, Gerald Klingbeil
* 33. Welcoming the Sabbath on the Kibbutzim: Secular Religiosity,
Dalia Marx
* 34. One God, Multiple Rituals and Theologies: Christianity, Rodney A.
Werline
* 35. Islamic Ritual, Richard Gauvain
* Scriptural and Ancient Texts
* Subject Index