Ritual Innovation in the Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism
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Edited by:
Nathan MacDonald
About this book
Are the rituals in the Hebrew Bible of great antiquity, practiced unchanged from earliest times, or are they the products of later innovators? The canonical text is clear: ritual innovation is repudiated as when Jeroboam I of Israel inaugurate a novel cult at Bethel and Dan. Most rituals are traced back to Moses. From Julius Wellhausen to Jacob Milgrom, this issue has divided critical scholarship. With the rich documentation from the late Second Temple period, such as the Dead Sea Scrolls, it is apparent that rituals were changed. Were such rituals practiced, or were they forms of textual imagination? How do rituals change and how are such changes authorized? Do textual innovation and ritual innovation relate? What light might ritual changes between the Hebrew Bible and late Second Temple texts shed on the history of ritual in the Hebrew Bible?
The essays in this volume engage the various issues that arise when rituals are considered as practices that may be invented and subject to change. A number of essays examine how biblical texts show evidence of changing ritual practices, some use textual change to discuss related changes in ritual practice, while others discuss evidence for ritual change from material culture.
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Nathan MacDonald, University of Cambridge and St John's College, Cambridge, UK
Reviews
"Das textlich größte Gewicht in den Einzelstudien haben naturgemäß die priesterlichen Texte in den Büchern Exodus, Leviticus und Numeri. Die damit verbundenen literatur- und ritualgeschichtlichen Detailprobleme sind hochkomplex, werden hier aber erfreulich knapp und auf sinnvolle Weise exemplarisch entfaltet, was auch Nichtspezialisten hilfreiche Einblicke in neueste Diskussionen der alttestamentlichen Wissenschaft bieten kann. Besonders hervorzuheben sind die knappen, aber pointierten Bemerkungen von Reinhard Achenbach zum Aaronidischen Segen (Num 6,22–27), die im Rahmen einer entwicklungsgeschichtlichen Skizze über die Vorstellung der Unsichtbarkeit Gottes in der Zeit des Tempels begegnen." In: Altorientalische und Israelitisch-Jüdische Religion (2016–2017), 113.
"Dies ist ein innovativer Band zu einem Thema, das zahlreiche literarische Fragestellungen berührt
und deutlich macht, wie sinnvoll eine diachrone Analyse biblischer Texte ist." Anselm C. Hagedorn in: Biblische Notizen. Neue Folge 188/2021, 125-127.
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