Before the God in this place for good remembrance
Subtitle: a comparative analysis of the Aramaic votive inscriptions from Mount Gerizim
By: Anne Katrine de Hemmer Gudme
Series: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft -- volume 441; Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft -- 441.
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
ISBN-13: 9783110301182; 9783110301878
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Comparative studies; Bible; Judaism; Aramaic Inscriptions; Weihinschrift; Relation to the Old Testament; Criticism, interpretation; Bibel; Aramäisch; Vows in the Bible; Aramaic literature; Post-exilic period (Judaism); History
Description: "This monograph explores Yahwistic votive practice in the Hellenistic period. The dedicatory inscriptions from the Yahweh temple on Mount Gerizim are the object of an investigation of Yahwistic votive practice, witnessed in and outside Biblical literature. The research begins the discussion by placing votive practice in a theoretical framework of gift-giving and fills a scholarly void by establishing this practice as an integral part of the sacrificial system in the Hebrew Bible. The Gerizim inscriptions are then analysed in their proper archaeological and religio-historical context."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Votive practice : a methodological framework; title: Votive practice in biblical literature; title: The votive inscriptions from Mount Gerizim; title: Votive inscriptions with a version of a remembrance formula; title: Ritual and remembrance in biblical literature.