Blood Expiation in Hittite and Biblical Ritual

Origins, Context, and Meaning
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-90-04-20259-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: SBL - Writings from the Ancient World Supplements

This volume offers a comprehensive examination of the origins and significance of the biblical blood rite based on comparative evidence from biblical texts and from Hittite texts from the 14th–13th century B.C.E. With a multi-disciplinary analysis of ritual practice the study seeks a concrete sociohistorical context to explain the symbolism of blood in the rite and its relation to the metaphoric scheme of debt and compensation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Feder, Yitzhaq

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Praktische Theologie Liturgik, Christliche Anbetung, Sakramente, Rituale, Feiertage
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien: Kult, Riten, Zeremonien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction

Part 1
1: T he Hurro-Hittite zurki Rite
2: T he Biblical Sin Offering
3: T he Question of a Historical Connection

Part 2
4: Rituals, Signs, and Meaning: Theoretical Foundations
5: T he Blood of the Sin Offering: Origins, Context, and Meaning
6: T he zurki Rite: Origins, Context, and Meaning
7: T racking the Blood Rite Tradition: Origins, Translation, and Transformation

Conclusion
Bibliography
Glossary
Subject Index
Source Index
Author Index

Über Autor(innen)

Yitzhaq Feder is Lecturer in Bible and Semitic Languages at Bar-Ilan University.