This volume presents a range of methodologically innovative treatments on ritual action in the Hebrew Bible. They treat a diverse range of ritual phenomena, including space, blessings and oath-taking, from the world of ancient Israel and Judah.

The introduction engages with the dominant scholarly models drawn from ritual theory, and the volume explores their applicability to ancient textual material such as the Hebrew Bible. The chapters reflect high-level specialized engagement with specific ritual phenomena through the lens of appropriate theoretical and methodological approaches.

Methodologically innovative approaches to ritual action in the Hebrew Bible and related literature from a range of respected scholarly voices.

About the Author

Laura Quick is Assistant Professor of Religion and Judaic Studies at Princeton University, USA.

Melissa Ramos is Assistant Professor of Biblical Studies, George Fox University, USA.

Reviews
The many areas of discussion and ways in which text, theory, and comparative material are drawn together are testaments to how ritual and the study of biblical texts are mutually illuminating...the authors and editors have provided a welcome, diverse, and insightful contribution to biblical and ritual studies. -- Samuel Boyd, University of Colorado, USA * Review of Biblical Literature *
This volume offers a wonderful set of essays that further explore ideas of ritual in the HB, across a variety of genres. -- Dr Joseph Scales * The Society for Old Testament Study Book List *
This excellent collection of thirteen essays on ritual in the biblical world ... succeeds in its goal of showing the necessity of multiple methodologies for interpreting ritual texts in the Bible ... Scholars of ritual and religion in the Bible, ancient Israel, and the ancient Near East will benefit from reading this volume and would do well to imitate its interdisciplinary commitment. -- Andrew R. Davis, Boston College, USA * Orientalia *



Book Information
ISBN 9780567707765
Author Assistant Professor Laura Quick
Format Paperback
Page Count 296
Imprint T.& T.Clark Ltd
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC