Violent Rituals of the Hebrew Bible

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Pub. Date: 2019-11-01
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Author Biography


Saul M. Olyan is the Samuel Ungerleider Jr. Professor of Judaic Studies and Professor of Religious Studies at Brown University. He is the author, most recently, of Friendship in the Hebrew Bible.

Table of Contents


Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter 1: Ritual Violence Prescribed

Chapter 2: Violent Rites Narrated

Chapter 3: Ritual Violence Envisioned

Chapter 4: Ritual Inversion and Mitigating Rites

Chapter 5: The Role of Circumstantially Dependent Rites in Ritual Violence

Chapter 6: The Social Dimensions of Ritual Violence

Conclusion

Notes

Indexes

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