Violent Rituals of the Hebrew Bible

Violent Rituals of the Hebrew Bible
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 181
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ISBN-10 : 9780190681920
ISBN-13 : 0190681926
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Book Synopsis Violent Rituals of the Hebrew Bible by : Saul M. Olyan

Download or read book Violent Rituals of the Hebrew Bible written by Saul M. Olyan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although seldom studied by biblical scholars as a discrete phenomenon, ritual violence is mentioned frequently in biblical texts, and includes ritual actions such as disfigurement of corpses, destruction or scattering of bones removed from a tomb, stoning and other forms of public execution, cursing, forced depilation, the legally-sanctioned imposition of physical defects on living persons, coerced potion-drinking, sacrificial burning of animals and humans, forced stripping and exposure of the genitalia, and mass eradication of populations. This book, the first to focus on ritual violence in the Hebrew Bible, investigates these and other violent rites, the ritual settings in which they occur, their various literary contexts, and the identity and aims of their agents in order to speak in an informed way about the contours and social aspects of ritual violence as it is represented in the Hebrew Bible.


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