Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Abbreviations xiii
5. Preface xv
6. Introduction: Overcoming Ritual’s Negative Connotations 1
7. PART I: EPISTEMOLOGY, RITUAL THEORY, AND METHODOLOGY
8. Chapter 1 Why Standard Theories of Knowledge Are Insufficient 21
9. Chapter 2 What Is a Rite and What Does It Have to Do with Knowledge? 33
10. Chapter 3 How We Will Proceed: Cautions and Liabilities of This Study 57
11. Part II The General Case for Ritual Knowing
12. Chapter 4 The Biblical Idea of Truth and Its Consequences for Rituals 71
13. Chapter 5 The Centrality of the Body for Knowing 90
14. Chapter 6 The Scientific Use of Ritual in order to Know 120
15. Part III The Biblical Case for Ritual Knowing
16. Chapter 7 Why Israel’s Rites Are Epistemological in the Hebrew Bible 137
17. Chapter 8 Tests and the Prophetic Indictment of Ritual in the Hebrew Bible 158
18. Chapter 9 Continuity and Ritual Knowing in the Early Jerusalemite Jesus Community 181
19. Chapter 10 Ritualization: A Better Construct than Supersessionism 206
20. Part IV Theological Implications of Ritual Knowing
21. Chapter 11 Ritual as an Ethically Prepared Process 223
22. Chapter 12 Knowledge as a Subset of Ethics 245
23. Chapter 13 Implications for Constructing Sacramental Theology 255
24. Bibliography 269
25. Scripture Index 279
26. Author and Subject Index 285