Levites and priests in biblical history and tradition / edited by Mark A. Leuchter and Jeremy M. Hutton.
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, |
| Description | x, 257 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from ACLS Humanities E-Book |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Leuchter, Mark. |
| Other author/creator | Hutton, Jeremy Michael. |
| Other author/creator | Society of Biblical Literature. |
| Other author/creator | American Council of Learned Societies. |
| Series | Society of Biblical Literature. Ancient Israel and its literature ; no. 9 |
| Contents | Covenant priesthood : cross-cultural legal and religious aspects of biblical and Hittite priesthood / Ada Taggar-Cohen -- Who is sacrificing at Shiloh? : the priesthoods of ancient Israel's regional sanctuaries / Susan Ackerman -- The Levite diaspora (II) : modern perspectives on the Levitical cities lists (a review of opinions) / Jeremy M. Hutton -- The social status of priestly and Levite women / Sarah Shectman -- The violent origins of the Levites : text and tradition / Joel S. Baden -- Between shadow and substance : the historical relationship of tabernacle and temple in light of architecture and iconography / Cory D. Crawford -- What do the "Levites in your gates" have to do with the "Levitical priests"? : an attempt at European-North American dialogue on the Levites in the Deuteronomic law corpus / Peter Atmann -- Those stubborn Levites : overcoming Levitical disenfranchisement / Stephen L. Cook -- Middle-tier Levites and the plenary reception of revelation / Mark A. Christian -- The cultic status of the Levites in the Temple Scroll : between history and hermeneutics / Jeffrey Stackert -- From Levite to maśkîl in the Persian and Hellenistic eras / Mark Leuchter. |
| General note | "The present volume emerged from the papers presented at the Society of Biblical Literature meetings in New Orleans (2009) and Atlanta (2010) in a newly formed program unit entitled 'Priests and Levites in History and Tradition'"--P. 5. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Language | In English and Hebrew. |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2011042390 |
| ISBN | 9781589836068 (paper binding : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1589836065 (paper binding : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9781589836075 (electronic format) |
| ISBN | 1589836073 (electronic format) |