Ritual and Rhetoric in Leviticus: From Sacrifice to Scripture

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Cambridge University Press, 02‏/07‏/2007 - 257 من الصفحات
Ritual and Rhetoric in Leviticus uses rhetorical analysis to expose the motives behind the writing of the central book of the Torah/Pentateuch and its persuasive function in ancient Judaism. The answer to the question, 'who was trying to persuade whom of what by writing these texts?' proves to be quite consistent throughout Leviticus 1-16: Aaronide high priests and their supporters used this book to legitimize their monopoly over the ritual offerings of Jews and Samaritans. With this priestly rhetoric at its center, the Torah supported the rise to power of two priestly dynasties in Second Temple Judaism. Their ascendancy in turn elevated the prestige and rhetorical power to the book, making it the first real scripture in Near Eastern and Western religious traditions.
 

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Ritual and Rhetoric in Leviticus
xix
Ritual Text and Ritual Interpretation
1
2 The Rhetoric of Ritual Instruction
37
3 The Rhetoric of Burnt Offerings
63
4 The Rhetoric of Sin Guilt and Ritual Offerings
79
5 The Rhetoric of Ritual Narrative
97
6 The Rhetoric of Atonement
130
7 The Rhetoric of Priesthood
142
8 The Rhetoric of Sacrifice
173
9 The Rhetoric of Scripture
193
Bibliography
219
Index of Biblical Citations
237
Index of Other Ancient Literature
243
Index of Authors
244
Index of Subjects
250
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الصفحة 248 - JAOS Journal of the American Oriental Society JBL Journal of Biblical Literature...
الصفحة 249 - Supplements WBC Word Biblical Commentary WMANT Wissenschaftliche Monographien zum Alten und Neuen Testament WUNT Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament...
الصفحة 248 - JQR Jewish Quarterly Review JSOT journal for the Study of the Old Testament JSOTSup Journal for the Study of the Old Testament — Supplement Series...
الصفحة xix - ... displaced precisely because they are felt to be so overwhelmingly present and powerful. Ritual is a means of performing the way things ought to be in conscious tension to the way things are.
الصفحة 2 - Mary Douglas, Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo (New York: Praeger, 1966). 67. Willard B. Gatewood, Jr., "Arkansas Negroes in the 1890s: Documents," Arkansas Historical Quarterly 33 (Winter 1974): 307-8; Joan Perry Morris and Lee H.

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