TY  - BOOK
AU  - MacDonald,Nathan
TI  - Ritual innovation in the Hebrew Bible and early Judaism
T2  - Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft,
SN  - 9783110368727
AV  - BM700 
U1  - 296.4/509 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston
PB  - De Gruyter
KW  - Judaism
KW  - Customs and practices
KW  - History
KW  - fast
KW  - RELIGION / Judaism / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Strange fire before the Lord: thinking about ritual innovation in the Hebrew bible and early Judaism; Nathan MacDonald --; Two types of ritual innovation for profit; Saul M. Olyan --; From ark of the covenant to Torah scroll: ritualizing Israel's iconic texts; James W. Watts --; The empty throne and the empty sanctuary: from aniconism to the invisibility of God in Second Temple theology; Reinhard Achenbach --; Ritual innovation and Shavu'ot; Nathan MacDonald --; How the priestly sabbaths work: innovation in Pentateuchal priestly ritual; Jeffrey Stackert --; Innovation in the suspected adulteress ritual (Num 5:11-31); Roy E. Gane --; Practicing rituals in a textual world: ritual and innovation in the book of Numbers; Christian Frevel --; Walking over the dead: burial practices and the possibility of ritual innovation at Qumran; Ian Werrett
N2  - "What are rituals, if not ancient practices, unchanged throughout generations? Yet, if we compare the rituals described in late Second Temple texts to those in the Hebrew Bible it is apparent that rituals do change. 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?"--
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