Ritual Innovation in the Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism
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Ritual Innovation in the Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism

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Are the rituals in the Hebrew Bible of great antiquity, practiced unchanged from earliest times, or are they the products of later innovators? The canonical text is clear: ritual innovation is repudiated as when Jeroboam I of Israel inaugurate a novel cult at Bethel and Dan. Most rituals are traced back to Moses. From Julius Wellhausen to Jacob Milgrom, this issue has divided critical scholarship. With the rich documentation from the late Second Temple period, such as the Dead Sea Scrolls, it is apparent that rituals were changed. Were such rituals practiced, or were they forms of textual imagination? How do rituals change and how are such changes authorized? Do textual innovation and ritual innovation relate? What light might ritual changes between the Hebrew Bible and late Second Temple texts shed on the history of ritual in the Hebrew Bible?

The essays in this volume engage the various issues that arise when rituals are considered as practices that may be invented and subject to change. A number of essays examine how biblical texts show evidence of changing ritual practices, some use textual change to discuss related changes in ritual practice, while others discuss evidence for ritual change from material culture.

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Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2016
ISBN
9783110368710
Edition
1
Topic
Théologie et religion
Subtopic
Religion

Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Strange Fire before the Lord: Thinking about Ritual Innovation in the Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism
  4. Two Types of Ritual Innovation for Profit
  5. From Ark of the Covenant to Torah Scroll: Ritualizing Israel’s Iconic Texts
  6. The Empty Throne and the Empty Sanctuary: From Aniconism to the Invisibility of God in Second Temple Theology
  7. Ritual Innovation and Shavuʿ ot
  8. How the Priestly Sabbaths Work: Innovation in Pentateuchal Priestly Ritual
  9. Innovation in the Suspected Adulteress Ritual (Num 5:11–31)
  10. Practicing Rituals in a Textual World: Ritual and Innovation in the Book of Numbers
  11. Walking over the Dead: Burial Practices and the Possibility of Ritual Innovation at Qumran
  12. Contributors
  13. Subject Index
  14. Index of names