Text and Ritual in the Pentateuch by Christophe Nihan

Text and Ritual in the Pentateuch by Christophe Nihan

A collection of essays examining the conceptual and methodological issues that currently inform the study of text and ritual in the Pentateuch.

“Text and Ritual in the Pentateuch is a rich collection of data and interactions with scholarship, and the numerous insights in this volume make it an important resource for advanced students of pentateuchal ritual texts”

—Roy E. Gane Andrews University Seminary Studies

“This rich collection is a welcome addition to scholarship and a must read for serious students of biblical ritual.”

—Michael Hundley Review of Biblical Literature

“The contributions to Text and Ritual in the Pentateuch contrast the relationship between text and ritual in ancient Israel with that of other ancient Mediterranean and Western Asian societies and thus gain new insights for the challenge of reconstructing the performance of ancient rituals from written sources.”

—Thomas Hieke, author of Die Genealogien der Genesis

“This volume is an important and timely contribution to the scholarly study of ritual texts and procedures in the Pentateuch and the Hebrew Bible as a whole. Important scholars in the field labor to advance the application of ritual studies, biblical intertextuality, rhetorical analysis, ancient Near Eastern comparative material, and related postbiblical literature to understanding the texts and ritual procedures in the Pentateuch.”

—Richard Averbeck, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

“A very interesting synthesis on the state of the question of the Pentateuch taking the ritual as an interpretive line.”

—J.-M. de Tarragon Revue Biblique

Christophe Nihan is Professor of Old Testament/Hebrew Bible at the University of Münster. He is the author of From Priestly Torah to Pentateuch: A Study in the Composition of the Book of Leviticus, coauthor of Opening the Books of Moses, and coeditor of several volumes, including most recently Writing Laws in Antiquity.

Julia Rhyder is Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. She is the author of Centralizing the Cult: The Holiness Legislation in Leviticus 17–26 and coeditor of Re-evaluating the Concept of Authorship in Hebrew Bible Studies.

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ISBN 13	9781646021413
ISBN 10	164602141X
Title	Text and Ritual in the Pentateuch
Author	Christophe Nihan
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Pennsylvania State University Press
Year published	2021-10-07
Number of pages	348
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