Rites and rank
hierarchy in biblical representations of cult
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Author
Publication
2000 - Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J, New Jersey
Language
English
Word Count
47,500 words, Guess
Page Count
190 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL46400M
- ISBN-100691029482
- OCLC Control Number42389540
- OCLC Control Numberritesrank00olya_196
- Library of Congress Control Number99045170
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- Goodreads5438493
- LibraryThing4001013
Classifications
- DDC221.6
- LCCBS1199.S59 O49 2000
Description
"Saul M. Olyan considers the prevalence of polarities in biblical discourse and expounds their significance for the social and religious institutions of ancient Israel. Extant biblical narrative and legal texts reveal a set of socially constructed and culturally privileged binary oppositions, Olyan argues, which instigate and perpetuate hierarchical social relations in ritual settings such as the sanctuary.". "Bringing the focus on four binary pairs - holy/common, Israelite/alien, clean/unclean, and whole/blemished - Olyan shows how these privileged oppositions were used to restrict access to cultic spaces, such as the temple or the Passover table. These ritual sites, therefore, became the primary contexts for creating and recreating unequal social relations. Olyan also uncovers a pattern of challenge to the established hierarchies by nonprivileged groups."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Rites and rank: hierarchy in biblical representations of cult
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