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Sacred ritual : a study of the West Semitic ritual calendars in Leviticus 23 and the Akkadian text Emar 446 / Bryan C. Babcock.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Bulletin for biblical research supplements ; 9.Publisher: Winona Lake, Indiana : Eisenbrauns, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (287 pages) : illustrations, tablesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781575068770
  • 157506877X
  • 1575068265
  • 9781575068268
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sacred ritual : a study of thWest Semitic ritual calendars in Leviticus 23 and the Akkadian text Emar 446.DDC classification:
  • 222/.13067 23
LOC classification:
  • BM690 .B225 2014eb
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Introduction -- Overview of Research -- Leviticus 23 -- Emar 446: A Multimonth Ritual Calendar -- Leviticus 23 in the Context of Emar 446 -- Conclusion.
Summary: Israelite festival calendar texts (Exod 23; 34; Lev 23; Num 28-29; Deut 16; and Ezek 45) share many features; however, there are also differences. Some of the most-often-cited differences are the following: festival dates, festival locations, date of the New Year, festival timing, and festival names. Scholars have explored these distinctions, and many have concluded that different sources (authors/redactors) wrote the various calendars at different times in Israelite history. Scholars use these dissimilarities to argue that Lev 23 was written in the exilic or postexilic era. Babcock offers a new translation and analysis of a second-millennium B.C. multimonth ritual calendar text from Emar (Emar 446) to challenge the late dating of Lev 23. Babcock argues that Lev 23 preserves an early (2nd-millennium) West Semitic ritual tradition. -- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction -- Overview of Research -- Leviticus 23 -- Emar 446: A Multimonth Ritual Calendar -- Leviticus 23 in the Context of Emar 446 -- Conclusion.

Israelite festival calendar texts (Exod 23; 34; Lev 23; Num 28-29; Deut 16; and Ezek 45) share many features; however, there are also differences. Some of the most-often-cited differences are the following: festival dates, festival locations, date of the New Year, festival timing, and festival names. Scholars have explored these distinctions, and many have concluded that different sources (authors/redactors) wrote the various calendars at different times in Israelite history. Scholars use these dissimilarities to argue that Lev 23 was written in the exilic or postexilic era. Babcock offers a new translation and analysis of a second-millennium B.C. multimonth ritual calendar text from Emar (Emar 446) to challenge the late dating of Lev 23. Babcock argues that Lev 23 preserves an early (2nd-millennium) West Semitic ritual tradition. -- Provided by publisher.

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