Three times a year
Subtitle: studies on festival legislation in the Pentateuch
By: Shimon Gesundheit
Series: Forschungen zum Alten Testament -- 82; Forschungen zum Alten Testament -- 82.
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Tübingen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9783161509803
Subjects: Bible; Tora; Fasts and feasts in the Bible; Criticism, interpretation; Exegese; Religiöses Fest; Judentum; Feesten; Religion; Fest; Kalendarium; Jewish calendar; Kalender
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-251) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: 2.3.1. The Priestly Character of Exod 12:22-27a, 28; title: 2.3.2. The Redactional Frame in vv. 21, 27b; title: 2.3.3. The Revision of vv. 23 and 27 in vv. 11b[beta]-13; title: 2.4. Schematic Summary of the Literary Layers in Exod 12:1-28; title: 2.5. The Problem of the Combination of the Pesah and the Unleavened Bread Pericopes; title: 2.5.1. Exod 12:14-17; title: 2.5.2. Exod 12:18-20 and the Priestly Calendars; title: 2.6. Summary and Conclusions; title: 2.6.1. The Literary Complexity of the Pesah Pericope; title: 2.6.2. The Programmatic Redaction in Exod 12:1-28; title: 2.6.2.1. The Expansional Layer; title: 2.6.2.2. Verses 14-17; title: 2.6.2.3. Verses 18-20; title: 3.1. Introduction; title: 3.2. The Pesah and Unleavened Bread in the Deuteronomic Festival Calendar (Deut 16:1-8); title: 3.2.1. The Difficulties in the Literary Flow of the Paragraph; title: 3.2.2. The Text and its Parallels; title: 3.2.3. The Original Deuteronomic Pesah Law Underlying the Paragraph; title: 3.2.4. The Additions in Verses 1, 3-4, 8; title: 3.2.4.1. Verses 3-4.; title: 3.2.4.1.1. Set B; title: The First Insertion: "You Shall Not Eat with It Leavened Food"; "And None of the Meat ... Shall Remain Overnight till Morning"; title: 3.2.4.1.2."You Shall Not Sacrifice" (Exod 23:18)-> "You Shall Not Slaughter" (Exod 34:25)-> "You Shall Not Eat" (Deut 16:3); title: 3.2.4.1.3."My Festal Fat" (Exod 23:18)-> "the Pesah-Festival Sacrifice" (Exod 34:25)-> "of the Meat That You will Sacrifice in the Evening" (Deut 16:4); title: 3.2.4.1.4."That You will Sacrifice in the Evening" (Deut 16:4); title: 3.2.4.2. Set C; title: The Second Insertion: "For Seven Days You Shall Eat with It Unleavened Bread"; "And Leaven Shall Not Be Detectable to You ... for Seven Days"; title: 3.2.4.2.1."For Seven Days You Shall Eat with It Unleavened Bread" (Deut 16:3a[beta]); title: 3.2.4.2.2."And Leaven Shall Not Be Detectable to You, Within Your Entire Territory, for Seven Days" (Deut 16:4a).; title: 3.2.4.3. Set D; title: The Third Insertion: "Meager Bread"; "Because You Left the Land of Egypt in Haste ... All the Days of Your Life"; title: 3.2.4.4. Verses 1 and 8; title: 3.2.4.5. Verse 1; title: 3.2.4.5.1."Keep the Month of Abib"; title: 3.2.4.5.2."Because in the Month of Abib YHWH Your God Took You out of Egypt"; title: 3.2.4.5.3."And You Shall Perform the Pesah for YHWH Your God"; title: 3.2.4.5.4."Keep the Month of Abib ... because in the Month of Abib ... at Night"; title: 3.2.4.5.5. The Original Frame of the Pesah Law; title: 3.2.4.6. Verse 8; title: 3.3. Summation; title: 3.3.1. The Method of the Literary-Critical Analysis and Its Results; title: 3.3.2. Implications of the Literary-Critical Analysis; title: 3.3.2.1. The Alleged Replacement of the Festival of Unleavened Bread by the Pesah in Deuteronomy; title: 3.3.2.2. Pesah and the Question of Literary Links between D and P; title: 3.3.2.3. Did the Festival Calendar of Exodus 34 Have Any Impact on the Literary Development of the Deuteronomic Festival Calendar?; title: 3.4. The Festivals of Weeks and Tabernacles in the Deuteronomic Festival Calendar (Deut 16:9-12, 13-15); title: 3.4.1. The Festival of Weeks; title: 3.4.2. The Festival of Tabernacles; title: 3.5. The Literary Frame of the Deuteronomic Festival Calendar; title: 3.6. The Presumed Development of the Deuteronomic Festival Calendar; title: 4.1. Introduction; title: 4.2. Survey of Literary-Critical Scholarship; title: 4.3. The Law of the First-Born (Exod 13:11-16); title: 4.3.1. The Uniqueness of the Historical Rationale for the Law of the First-Born; title: 4.3.2. The Law of the First-Born as an Alternative to the Apotropaic Cult of the Pesah; title: 4.3.3. The Controversy Concerning the Pesah; title: 4.3.4. The Literary Sources of the Law of the First-Born; title: 4.3.4.1."You Shall Transfer All Womb-Breachers to YHWH" (vv. 12-13, 15); title: 4.3.4.2."From Human First-Born to Animal First-Born" (v. 15); title: 4.3.4.3."YHWH Slew () Every First-Born in the Land of Egypt" (v. 15).; title: 4.3.4.4."With Strength of Hand" () and "With a Strong Hand" () (vv. 3, 9, 14, 16); title: 4.3.4.5."And It Shall Be a Sign on Your Hand and a Mark Between Your Eyes" (v. 16); title: 4.3.4.6."When Pharaoh Stubbornly Refused to Let Us Go" (v. 15); title: 4.4."Consecrate to Me Every First-Born" (vv. 1-2); title: 4.4.1. The Problem; title: 4.4.2.A New Reading; title: 4.5. The Unleavened Bread Section (vv. 3-10); title: 4.5.1. Literary Parallels and Motifs in Exod 12:25-27; 13:5-10, 11-16; title: 4.5.2.A Diachronic Perspective on the Unleavened Bread Section (vv. 3-10); title: 4.5.2.1. The Pesah as a Commemoration of the Exodus from Egypt; title: 4.5.2.2. The Integration of the Pesah with the Unleavened Bread; title: 4.5.3. The Text in its Present Form; title: 4.6. Summary and Conclusions (Exod 13:1-16); title: 5.1. Results; title: 5.2. Implications of the Methodological Approach for the Study of the Festivals; title: 5.2.1. Exegetical Layer; title: 5.2.2. Expansional and Supplementary Layer; title: 5.2.3. Rewriting and Replacement.; title: The Subject of this Study; title: Methodology; title: 1.1. The Problem; title: 1.2. Additions in Exodus 34 as Compared with Exodus 23; title: 1.2.1. The Law of the First-Born; title: 1.2.2. The Cessation of Work on the Seventh Day; title: 1.2.3. The Epithet "God of Israel"; title: 1.2.4. Verse 24; title: 1.3. Changes in Exodus 34 as Compared with Exodus 23; title: 1.3.1. The Name and the Designation "First-Fruits of the Wheat Harvest"; title: 1.3.2. The Date of the Festival of the Ingathering; title: 1.3.3. The Replacement of ("Sacrifice") by ("Slaughter"); title: 1.3.4. Designation of the Pesah Sacrifice as; title: 1.4. Passages Lacking in Exod 34:18-26 as Compared with Exod 23:14-19; title: 1.4.1."On Three Occasions You Shall Feast to Me During the Year" (23:14); title: 1.4.2. The Festivals of the Harvest/Weeks and the Ingathering: Exod 34:22 versus Exod 23:16; title: 1.5. Summary and Conclusions; title: 2.1. Introduction; title: 2.2. The Structure of the Pesah Laws in Exod 12:1-11; title: 2.3. The Origin of Exod 12:21-27.