| Description |
1 online resource (287 pages) : illustrations, tables |
| Series |
Bulletin for Biblical Research Supplement ; 9 |
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Bulletin for biblical research supplements ; 9.
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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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Bible. Leviticus, XXIII -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
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| Subject |
Fasts and feasts -- Judaism -- History
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Fasts and feasts in the Bible.
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Assyro-Babylonian literature -- Syria -- Emar (Extinct city) -- History and criticism
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RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- Old Testament.
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Assyro-Babylonian literature
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Fasts and feasts in the Bible
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Fasts and feasts -- Judaism
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Syria -- Emar (Extinct city)
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781575068770 |
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157506877X |
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1575068265 |
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9781575068268 |
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