Overview
This volume is intended to bring into relief the full range of violent rites represented in the Hebrew Bible many rarely, if ever, consider. It seeks to explore what acts of ritual violence might accomplish socio-politically in their particular settings and the ways in which engagement with theory from a variety of disciplines can contribute to our understanding of ritual violence as a phenomenon--
- | Author: Saul M. Olyan
- | Publisher: Oxford University Press
- | Publication Date: Dec 01, 2015
- | Number of Pages: 204 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 0190249587
- | ISBN-13: 9780190249588
