Current issues in priestly and related literature
Subtitle: the legacy of Jacob Milgrom and beyond
By: edited by Roy E. Gane and Ada Taggar-Cohen
Series: Society of Biblical Literature. Resources for biblical study -- Number 82; Resources for biblical study -- no. 82.
Publisher: SBL Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Atlanta, GA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 523
ISBN-13: 9781628371215; 9781628371239; 9781628371222
Subjects: Bible; Bibel; Criticism, interpretation; Priests; Priesterschrift; Quellenkritik; Jewish Priests; Deuteronomist
Description: The single greatest catalyst and contributor to our developing understanding of priestly literature has been Jacob Milgrom (1923-2010), whose seminal articles, provocative hypotheses, and comprehensively probing books vastly expanded and significantly altered scholarship regarding priestly and related literature. Nineteen articles build on Milgrom's work and look to future directions of research. Essays cover a range of topics including the interpretation, composition and literary structure of priestly and holiness texts as well as their relationships to deuteronomic and extra-biblical texts. The book includes a bibliography of Milgrom's work published between 1994 and 2014.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: 880-01; title: Tabernacle or tent of meeting? : the dual nature of the sacred tent in the priestly texts  -- Michael B. Hundley; title: What is a zoeme? : the priestly inventory of sacrificial animals  -- Naphtali S. Meshel; title: Women and the purification offering : what Jacob Milgrom contributed to the intersection of women's studies and biblical studies  -- Elizabeth W. Goldstein; title: Leviticus 22:24 : a prohibition of gelding for the land of Israel?  -- Elaine Adler Goodfriend; title: "The meeting places of God in the land" : another look at the towns of the Levites  -- Daniel I. Block; title: Profane versus sacrificial slaughter : the priestly recasting of the Yahwist flood story  -- David P. Wright; title: The holiness school in Genesis?  -- Megan Warner; title: The composition of Exodus 31:12-17 and 35:1-3 and the question of method in identifying priestly strata in the Torah  -- Jeffrey Stackert; title: Didactic logic and the authorship of Leviticus  -- Roy E. Gane; title: Structure is theology : the composition of Leviticus  -- Moshe Kline; title: Fundamental structure as methodological control for evaluating introverted literary structures in Leviticus  -- Deborah L. Ellens; title: Leviticus 19 as mini-Torah  -- David Tabb Stewart; title: The end of Korah and others : closural conventions in priestly narratives of Numbers  -- Susan Zeelander; title: Leviticus 17, where P, H, and D meet : priorities and presuppositions of Jacob Milgrom and Eckart Otto  -- Esias E. Meyer; title: A need for hope? : a comparison between the dynamics in Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28-30  -- Georg Fischer SJ; title: "For instruction shall come forth from Zion" : biblical and Mesopotamian temples as palaces of justice  -- Victor Avigdor Hurowitz [zal]; title: Between ḥerem, ownership, and ritual : biblical and Hittite perspectives  -- Ada Taggar-Cohen; title: Purity and Persia  -- Thomas Kazen; title: Intermarriage in the Temple Scroll : strategies of neutralization -- Hannah K. Harrington.