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Three Times a Year: Studies on Festival Legislation in the Pentateuch

Three Times a Year: Studies on Festival Legislation in the Pentateuch

Gesundheit, Shimon

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Series: Forschungen Zum Alten Testament, Book 82

JudaismAncient History GeneralBible Studies

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ISBN10: 3161509803
ISBN13: 9783161509803
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: Dec 31 2012
Pages: 277
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.91 Width: 6.31 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
The festival calendars in the Pentateuch have made up the heart of critical biblical research from the beginning. Each of the calendars was thought to have taken shape against its own specific historical background and to accurately reflect a distinct stage in the development of Israel's cultic and social institutions. Classical hypotheses used them to distinguish the different legal codes in the Pentateuch from each other, to define the original compositions, and to arrange them relative to each other in an historical, chronological sequence. Shimon Gesundheit challenges the classical historical reconstructions and the methodology driving them. He presents an alternate point of view, according to which the festival laws do not simplistically reflect the specific cultic or social realities of actual historical periods. Rather, through their legal discourse, they shape and promote new ideas by textual revision and redaction, in the lemmatic style of midrash, and they represent a process of progressive literary development.

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