The Origins of Early Semitic Ritual: The Schweich Lectures of the British Academy - Brossura

Hooke, S. H.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1556353715 ISBN 13: 9781556353710

Casa editrice: Wipf & Stock Pub, 2007

Riassunto

In these lectures an attempt is made to relate the ritual practices of the Hebrews, as contained in the Old Testament, to the larger field of the elaborate rituals of Mesopotamian civilization, and to what we know of the early ritual of Canaan. . . . The first lecture is devoted to a survey of the sources from which our knowledge of Mesopotamian ritual is derived and to a description of the general character of the most important types of Mesopotamian ritual. . . . The second lecture attempts to do the same thing for the early ritual of Canaan. . . . The last lecture attempts to set the principal ritual practices and institutions of the Hebrews, as contained in the Old Testament and the Mishnah, in the perspective of the Mesopotamian and Canaanite pattern described in the first two lectures, to estimate their debt to these sources, and to arrive at some conception of the historical development of Hebrew ritual. . . . It is becoming clear that in the earliest stages of religion, myth and ritual are inseparably connected, and that their study must be carried on side by side. --from the Preface

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Wipf & Stock Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1556353715
• ISBN 13: 9781556353710
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 74
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