Rites and rank : hierarchy in biblical representations of cult

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Rites and rank : hierarchy in biblical representations of cult

Saul M. Olyan

Princeton University Press, c2000

  • : cloth

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

Good and evil, clean and unclean, rich and poor, self and other. The nature and function of such binary oppositions have long intrigued scholars in such fields as philosophy, linguistics, classics, and anthropology. From the opening chapters of Genesis, in which God separates day from night, and Adam and Eve partake of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, dyadic pairs proliferate throughout the Hebrew Bible. In this groundbreaking work melding critical exegesis and contemporary theory, Saul M. Olyan considers the prevalence of polarities in biblical discourse and expounds their significance for the social and religious institutions of ancient Israel. Extant biblical narrative and legal texts reveal a set of socially constructed and culturally privileged binary oppositions, Olyan argues, which instigate and perpetuate hierarchical social relations in ritual settings such as the sanctuary. Focusing on four binary pairs--holy/common, Israelite/alien, clean/unclean, and whole/blemished--Olyan shows how these privileged oppositions were used to restrict access to cultic spaces, such as the temple or the Passover table. These ritual sites, therefore, became the primary contexts for creating and recreating unequal social relations. Olyan also uncovers a pattern of challenge to the established hierarchies by nonprivileged groups. Converging with contemporary issues of power, marginalization, and privileging, Olyan's painstaking yet lucid study abounds with implications for anthropology, classics, critical theory, and feminist studies.

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Acknowledgments ix List of Abbretiations xi Introduction 3 Status and Hierarchy 7 Cultic and Quasi-Cultic Settings 10 Rites and Rank 11 1. Foundational Discourse: The Opposition Holy/Common 15 Holiness and Privilege 27 Conclusion 35 2.Admission or Exclusion: The Binary Pairing Unclean/Clean 38 Sources of Impurity 40 Degrees of Pollution and the Requirements of Purification 50 The Hierarchical Dimensions of UncleanlClean 54 Conclusion 61 3.Generating "Self" and "Other"- The Polarity Israelite/Alien 63 Forms and Functions of the Polarity Israelite/Alien 64 Contesting Alien Exclusion from Israel and Its Cultic Life 90 Cultural Mechanisms of Alien Incorporation into Israel 93 Conclusion 99 4.The Qualified Body: The Dyad Whole/Blemished 103 Blemishes and Inequality 111 Conclusion 113 Conclusion 115 Appendix. The Idea of Holiness in the Holiness Source 121 Notes 123 Index of Authors 175 Index of Biblical Citations 179

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