Are the rituals in the Hebrew Bible of great antiquity, practiced
unchanged from earliest times, or are they the products of later
innovators? The canonical text is clear: ritual innovation is
repudiated as when Jeroboam I of Israel inaugurate a novel cult at
Bethel and Dan. Most rituals are traced back to Moses. From Julius
Wellhausen to Jacob Milgrom, this issue has divided critical
scholarship. With the rich documentation from the late Second
Temple period, such as the Dead Sea Scrolls, it is apparent that
rituals were changed. 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? What light might ritual changes between the
Hebrew Bible and late Second Temple texts shed on the history of
ritual in the Hebrew Bible? The essays in this volume engage the
various issues that arise when rituals are considered as practices
that may be invented and subject to change. A number of essays
examine how biblical texts show evidence of changing ritual
practices, some use textual change to discuss related changes in
ritual practice, while others discuss evidence for ritual change
from material culture.
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