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Violent Rituals of the Hebrew Bible (Hardcover)
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Violent Rituals of the Hebrew Bible (Hardcover)
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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.
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