Violent Rituals of the Hebrew Bible

Olyan, Saul M.

Oxford University Press Inc（2019/11発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 180 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780190681906
• DDC分類 231.83036

Full Description

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.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter 1: Ritual Violence Prescribed

Chapter 2: Violent Rites Narrated

Chapter 3: Ritual Violence Envisioned

Chapter 4: Ritual Inversion and Mitigating Rites

Chapter 5: The Role of Circumstantially Dependent Rites in Ritual Violence

Chapter 6: The Social Dimensions of Ritual Violence

Conclusion

Notes

Indexes