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Rites and rank : hierarchy in biblical representations of cult / Saul M. Olyan.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, �2000.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 190 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 1400812879
  • 9781400812875
  • 9780691029481
  • 0691029482
  • 9781400823567
  • 1400823560
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Rites and rank.DDC classification:
  • 221.6 21
LOC classification:
  • BS1199.S59 O49 2000eb
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Summary: 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 signific.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-174) and index.

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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents.

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 signific.

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