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Sacred ritual : a study of the West Semitic ritual calendars in Leviticus 23 and the Akkadian text Emar 446 / Bryan C. Babcock

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Babcock, Bryan C.
Published
Winona Lake, Indiana : Eisenbrauns, 2014.
Copyright Date
©2014
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1 online resource (287 pages) : illustrations, tables
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Contents
Introduction -- Overview of Research -- Leviticus 23 -- Emar 446: A Multimonth Ritual Calendar -- Leviticus 23 in the Context of Emar 446 -- Conclusion.
Summary
Israelite festival calendar texts (Exod 23; 34; Lev 23; Num 28-29; Deut 16; and Ezek 45) share many features; however, there are also differences. Some of the most-often-cited differences are the following: festival dates, festival locations, date of the New Year, festival timing, and festival names. Scholars have explored these distinctions, and many have concluded that different sources (authors/redactors) wrote the various calendars at different times in Israelite history. Scholars use these dissimilarities to argue that Lev 23 was written in the exilic or postexilic era. Babcock offers a new translation and analysis of a second-millennium B.C. multimonth ritual calendar text from Emar (Emar 446) to challenge the late dating of Lev 23. Babcock argues that Lev 23 preserves an early (2nd-millennium) West Semitic ritual tradition. --
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9781575068770 (electronic bk.)
157506877X (electronic bk.)
1575068265 (electronic bk.)
9781575068268 (electronic bk.)
9781575068268
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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