Casting down the host of heaven : the rhetoric of ritual failure in the polemic against the host of heaven /
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2020]
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| Series: | Old Testament studies ;
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part 1 The Host of Heaven and a New Approach
- Chapter 1 Pervasive Yet Elusive: Content and Context
- 1 The Multivalent Host of Heaven
- 1.1 The Host and the Divine Army
- 1.2 The Host and the Celestial Bodies
- 1.3 The Host and the Divine Council
- 1.4 The Host and the Divine Congregation
- 1.5 The Undefined Host
- 2 A Multivalent Corpus: Previous Approaches to the Polemics
- 2.1 Imperialism and Religion
- 2.2 The Deuteronomistic History
- 2.3 Cult in Exile
- 2.4 The Crossroads
- 3 The Way Forward: Ritual and the Polemic Against the Host
- Chapter 2 Ritual and Rhetoric: an Overview
- 1 Ritual and Context
- 2 The Persuasive Nature of Ritual
- 3 Textualized Rituals and Ritualized Texts
- 4 The Dangers of Ritual Failure
- 5 Summary: Ritual, Rhetoric, and the Polemical Texts
- Chapter 3 Ritual and Polemic in the Hebrew Bible
- 1 Polemic as a Product of Competing Worldviews
- 2 Polemic against Ritual as a Response to Social Upheaval
- 3 Polemic against Ritual Innovation
- 4 Summary: Polemic against Ritual and Its Implications
- 4 Destroying and Discarding Failed Rituals and Their Practitioners
- Chapter 8 Perceived Ritual Failure and the Development of the Biblical Texts
- 1 Ambiguity and Negotiation
- 2 Ritual as Cause of and Solution to Crisis
- 3 Textualized Rituals and Ritual Control
- 4 Ritual Failure and the Development of the Biblical Texts
- Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Index of Biblical Texts
- Index of Modern Authors