Ritual and Law in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East

Tzvi Abusch (Herausgegeben von) Born 1940; Ph.D. Harvard University (Assyriology); Rose B. and Joseph Cohen Professor of Assyriology and Ancient Near Eastern Religion; emeritus Brandeis University.Alan Lenzi (Herausgegeben von) Born 1970; 2006 PhD in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies (Bible and Ancient Near East) from Brandeis University (Waltham, Massachusetts); Professor of History at University of the Pacific (Stockton, California).Jeffrey Stackert (Herausgegeben von) Born 1977; 2006 PhD in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies (Bible and Ancient Near East) from Brandeis University (Waltham, Massachusetts); Professor of Hebrew Bible at the University of Chicago.

• Jeffrey Stackert: Preface - Alan Lenzi: Introduction - Jeffery M. Leonard: Curses and the Composition of Deuteronomy - Tina M. Sherman: Exodus 34 and the Strategic Use of Law in the Construction of National Identity - Jason M. H. Gaines: On Moses's Foreskin: Narrative Repurposing of the Circumcision Ritual in the Priestly Source - Joel S. Baden: The Decalogue in Deuteronomy and (then) in Exodus - Tamar Kamionkowski: The Concept of Desecration in Leviticus - Marc Zvi Brettler: YHWH's Laws in Psalms - Bruce Wells Identifying the Form of Enslavement in Exodus 21:20-21 - Madadh Richey: Elisha and the Bears (2 Kings 2:23-25) - Jeffrey Stackert Typicality and Verisimilitude in Neo-Assyrian and Judean Figural Representation - Ada Taggar-Cohen: The Status of Women in the Hittite Cult as Mirrored in Royal Ideology and Prescribed Rituals - Alan Lenzi: Exploring Manners, Etiquettes, and Protocols with Šuila-Prayer Ištar 1 - Tzvi Abusch / Emily Blanchard West: 'Awful Silence, Deathly Stillness': Fears and Anxieties among the Gods in Mesopotamian and Indic Literature