Oracular Law and Priestly Historiography in the Torah

Chavel, Simeon

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“…43. The pentateuchal Priestly source as a historical narrative is well presented by Chavel (2014) and Feldman (2020). 44.…”

Section: The Component and The Function Of Kəbôd -Yhwhmentioning

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YHWH in a Suit: Kəbôd YHWH as the Regalia of the Priestly God

Bae

2023

Journal for the Study of the Old Testament

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Kāḇôḏ in kəḇôḏ YHWH has been translated predominantly with abstract words such as “glory” or “presence” throughout the Hebrew Bible. Some scholars argue that kəḇôḏ YHWH simultaneously marks the divine presence and hides the divine essence. These understandings do not capture the specific function and signification of kəḇôḏ YHWH in the pentateuchal Priestly source (P and H). In P and H, kəḇôḏ YHWH conveys the imagery of radiant, fiery clothing, comparable to Mesopotamian melammu. The deity always appears before the public with kəḇôḏ YHWH, whereas the text never says that the deity meets anyone privately with it. kəḇôḏ YHWH expresses the royal aspect of the deity who requires honor and submission. This understanding of kəḇôḏ YHWH in P reveals that the Priestly God is not abstract, enigmatic, or transcendent.

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“…43. The pentateuchal Priestly source as a historical narrative is well presented by Chavel (2014) and Feldman (2020). 44.…”

Section: The Component and The Function Of Kəbôd -Yhwhmentioning

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YHWH in a Suit: Kəbôd YHWH as the Regalia of the Priestly God

Bae

2023

Journal for the Study of the Old Testament

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“…22 While some of these approaches build on the work of Watts, others come at these texts from entirely different directions. Some scholars have focused on the internal literary-historical development of ritual texts in order to analyze changing attitudes toward specific ritual issues, 23 while others turned to symbolic analyses of sacrificial writings as a means of abstracting and analyzing them as modes of religious thought. 24 At least one scholar has used a structuralist approach to ritual theory in order to identify and define an underlying ritual grammar in these texts.…”

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“…23 23 Simeon Chavel, Oracular Law and Priestly Historiography in the Torah , Forschungen Zum Alten Testament II (Chavel, 2014); Jeffrey Stackert, “How the Priestly Sabbaths Work: Innovation in Pentateuchal Priestly Ritual,” in Ritual Innovation in the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Judaism, ed. Nathan MacDonald; vol.…”

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The idea and study of sacrifice in ancient Israel

Feldman

2020

Religion Compass

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This article offers an introduction to the idea of sacrifice in Israel across the first millennium BCE, and presents data from both the first and second temple periods. In the first part of the article, I discuss three different types of evidence available for the study of sacrifice-archeological, comparative, and literary-the strengths and limitations of each form of evidence, and highlight recent trends in this area of study. In the second part of the article, I turn to a more direct discussion of the what, where, who, why, and how of sacrifice in ancient Israel. 1 | INTRODUCTION In this article, I will introduce the basic idea of sacrifice in ancient Israel, with a particular focus on the first millennium BCE. 1 This article proceeds in two parts. The first part discusses the different types of evidence and approaches for the study of sacrifice in ancient Israel. In that section, I give a brief overview of the types of evidence, along with a selected history of scholarship that points toward the latest trends in the study of sacrifice. For those who are interested in studying sacrifice further, the footnotes in this first section are meant to be a roadmap to both the most historically influential work and the cutting-edge research being done today. In the second section, I provide an overview of the what, where, who, when, and why of sacrifice, focused primarily on ancient Israel. There are a number of reasons for my choice of ancient Israel as the focus for this article beyond the fact that an overview of sacrifice across the entirety of the ancient Middle East is too massive a topic to treat in so little space. My focus on ancient Israel, in part, mirrors the fact that some of the foundational theories about how sacrifice works have been based on the study of ancient Israelite texts. 2 This may well be due to the seemingly systematic nature of the presentation of the ancient Israelite materials (similar to the also much-studied Vedic materials in this sense) compared with the more abundant but disparate textual evidence from Mesopotamia and the Levant. 3 It is, of course, also impossible to ignore the fact that the ancient Israelite materials have been so widely studied in large part because of their inclusion in the Bible. Indeed, the Bible is the context in which most This article provides an overview of sacrifice in ancient Israel during the first millennium BCE, and offers an introduction to literary, archeological, and comparative evidence for its study.

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Applied Ritual: The Application of Blood and Oil on Bodies in the Pentateuchal Sources

Boyd

2020

Biblical Interpret.

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Source critical analyses of the Pentateuch in recent scholarship have focused primarily on literary means for detecting distinct literary voices, and, in some recent publications, historical aspects of, particularly, the P source. In this article, I formulate a distinct approach to source criticism that supports this resurgence of documentary analysis, examining in particular the ritual of blood and oil daubing on bodies in Exod. 19–24, Lev. 8 and 14. After summarizing the main point at issue (namely, access to the divine), I offer a documentary approach using ritual theory in the study of these texts. Finally, I highlight the manner in which the ritual study of Exod.19–24, Lev. 8 and 14 is consistent with both key historical and recent arguments in the documentary approach to the composition of the Pentateuch.

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Oracular Law and Priestly Historiography in the Torah

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YHWH in a Suit: Kəbôd YHWH as the Regalia of the Priestly God

YHWH in a Suit: Kəbôd YHWH as the Regalia of the Priestly God

The idea and study of sacrifice in ancient Israel

Applied Ritual: The Application of Blood and Oil on Bodies in the Pentateuchal Sources

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