Three Times a Year: Studies on Festival Legislation in the PentateuchMohr Siebeck, 2012 - 277 עמודים The festival calendars in the Pentateuch have made up the heart of critical biblical research from the beginning. Each of the calendars was thought to have taken shape against its own specific historical background and to accurately reflect a distinct stage in the development of Israel's cultic and social institutions. Classical hypotheses used them to distinguish the different legal codes in the Pentateuch from each other, to define the original compositions, and to arrange them relative to each other in an historical, chronological sequence. Shimon Gesundheit challenges the classical historical reconstructions and the methodology driving them. He presents an alternate point of view, according to which the festival laws do not simplistically reflect the specific cultic or social realities of actual historical periods. Rather, through their legal discourse, they shape and promote new ideas by textual revision and redaction, in the lemmatic style of midrash, and they represent a process of progressive literary development. |
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apotropaic appears base layer biblical blood rite calendar in Exodus chiastic structure commandment context contrast Covenant cultic days of unleavened Deut Deutero Deuteronomy Deuteronomy 16 documentary hypothesis doorposts eat unleavened bread endwell endwell His name Exod Exodus 13 Exodus 34 Exoduserzählung expansional layer Festival of Tabernacles Festival of Unleavened Festival of Weeks first-born legislation formulation Gertz harvest Hexateuchs Ingathering inner-biblical interpolator interpretation Israel Israelites land of Egypt leavened food literary literary-critical analysis Mekhilta mention midrash month of Abib Moses non-Priestly Numbers paragraph parallel passage Passover Pentateuch Pesah Pesaḥ and unleavened Pesaḥ laws Pesaḥ legislation Pesaḥ pericope Pesaḥ sacrifice Pesaḥ to YHWH Pharaoh phrase place that YHWH Priestly literature prohibition Rashbam redactional revision ritual decalogue Rofé sacrifice the Pesaḥ scholars Septuagint seven days slaying textual tion verb verse Vorlage Wellhausen words YHWH your God YHWH's אֶל אֲשֶׁר אֶת בְּכוֹר הַזֶּה וְלֹא כִּי כָּל לִי עַד עַל פָּטֶר