Practicing Rituals in a Textual World: Ritual and Innovation in the Book of Numbers

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Table of Contents VII
4. Strange Fire before the Lord: Thinking about Ritual Innovation in the Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism 1
5. Two Types of Ritual Innovation for Profit 11
6. From Ark of the Covenant to Torah Scroll: Ritualizing Israel’s Iconic Texts 21
7. The Empty Throne and the Empty Sanctuary: From Aniconism to the Invisibility of God in Second Temple Theology 35
8. Ritual Innovation and Shavuʿot 55
9. How the Priestly Sabbaths Work: Innovation in Pentateuchal Priestly Ritual 79
10. Innovation in the Suspected Adulteress Ritual (Num 5:11–31) 113
11. Practicing Rituals in a Textual World: Ritual and Innovation in the Book of Numbers 129
12. Walking over the Dead: Burial Practices and the Possibility of Ritual Innovation at Qumran 151
13. Contributors 167
14. Subject Index 169
15. Index of names 171