Chapter 1 Rituals in the Spells of the Book of the Dead in Ancient Egypt

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Abbreviations ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Chapter 1 Rituals in the Spells of the Book of the Dead in Ancient Egypt 30
7. Chapter 2 Between Utterance and Dedication: Some Remarks on the Status of Textuality in Greek Ritual Practices 58
8. Chapter 3 Inscriptions and Ritual Practices in the Neo-Assyrian Period: The Construction of a Building as an Example 78
9. Chapter 4 Between Text and Ritual: The Function(s) of the Ritual Texts from Late Bronze Age Emar (Syria) 107
10. Chapter 5 The Textualization of Priestly Ritual in Light of Hittite Sources 121
11. Chapter 6 Diversity and Centralization of the Temple Cult in the Archeological Record from the Iron II C to the Persian and Hellenistic Periods in Judah 151
12. Chapter 7 Texts Are Not Rituals, and Rituals Are Not Texts , with an Example from Leviticus 12 172
13. Chapter 8. The Texture of Rituals in the Book of Numbers: A Fresh Approach to Ritual Density, the Role of Tradition, and the Emergence of Diversity in Early Judaism 188
14. Chapter 9. Speaking with a Divine Voice: The Rhetoric of Epistolary Performance in Numbers 6:22–27 215
15. Chapter 10 The Ritual Texts of Leviticus and the Creation of Ritualized Bodies 240
16. Chapter 11 The Reception of Ritual Laws in the Early Second Temple Period: Evidence from Ezra- Nehemiah and Chronicles 255
17. Chapter 12. Text and Ritual in the Dead Sea Scrolls 280
18. Chapter 13. “And They Would Read Before Him the Order for the Day”: The Textuality of Leviticus 16 in Mishnah Yoma, Tosefta Kippurim, and Sifra Aḥare Mot 312
19. List of Contributors 327
20. Index of Ancient Sources 329
21. Subject Index 331