Sacred ritual
Subtitle: a study of the West Semitic ritual calendars in Leviticus 23 and the Akkadian text Emar 446
By: Bryan C. Babcock
Series: Bulletin for biblical research supplements -- 9; Bulletin for biblical research supplements -- 9.
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Winona Lake, Indiana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9781575068268
Subjects: Bible; Judaism; Bibel; Criticism, interpretation; History and criticism; Religiöses Fest; Assyro-Babylonian literature; Fasts and feasts in the Bible; Ritus; Fasts and feasts; Kalender; History
Description: "A comparison of the texts regarding ritual in the Old Testament Leviticus 23 and those found in a text from the Syrian site of Emar."--Provided by the publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-257) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Overview of research; title: Leviticus 23; title: Emar 446 : a multimonth ritual calendar; title: Leviticus 23 in the context of Emar 446; title: Conclusion.