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Rites and Rank: Hierarchy in Biblical By Saul M. Olyan
Publisher: Princeton University Press | ISBN: 0691029482 | edition 2000 | PDF | 194 pages | 1,2 mb
Good and evil, clean and unclean, rich and poor, self and other. The nature and function of such binary oppositions have long intrigued scholars in such fields as philosophy, linguistics, classics, and anthropology. From the opening chapters of Genesis, in which God separates day from night, and Adam and Eve partake of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, dyadic pairs proliferate throughout the Hebrew Bible. In this groundbreaking work melding critical exegesis and contemporary theory, Saul M. Olyan considers the prevalence of polarities in biblical discourse and expounds their significance for the social and religious institutions of ancient Israel. Extant biblical narrative and legal texts reveal a set of socially constructed and culturally privileged binary oppositions, Olyan argues, which instigate and perpetuate hierarchical social
Author: Olyan, Saul M.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Illustration: N
Language: ENG
Title: Rites and Rank: Hierarchy in Biblical Representations of Cult
Pages: 00216
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