Ritual and Law in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East

Cover
Title
Jeffrey Stackert — Preface
Table of Contents
Alan Lenzi — Introduction
Jeffery M. Leonard — Curses and the Composition of Deuteronomy
Tina M. Sherman — Exodus 34 and the Strategic Use of Law in the Construction of National Identity
Jason M. H. Gaines — On Moses’s Foreskin: Narrative Repurposing of the Circumcision Ritual in the Priestly Source
Joel S. Baden — The Decalogue in Deuteronomy and (then) in Exodus
Tamar Kamionkowski — The Concept of Desecration in Leviticus
Marc Zvi Brettler — YHWH’s Laws in Psalms
Bruce Wells — Identifying the Form of Enslavement in Exodus 21:20–21
Madadh Richey — Elisha and the Bears (2 Kings 2:23–25)
Jeffrey Stackert — Typicality and Verisimilitude in Neo-Assyrian and Judean Figural Representation
Ada Taggar Cohen — The Status of Women in the Hittite Cult as Mirrored in Royal Ideology and Prescribed Rituals
Alan Lenzi — Exploring Manners, Etiquettes, and Protocols with Šuila-Prayer Ištar 1
Tzvi Abusch and Emily Blanchard West — ‘Awful Silence, Deathly Stillness’ : Fears and Anxieties among the Gods in Mesopotamian and Indic Literature
List of Contributors
Index of Ancient Sources
Index of Authors
Index of Subject