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Levites and priests in biblical history and tradition

Mark Leuchter and Jeremy Michael Hutton c2011 © Society of Biblical Literature
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Series
  • Ancient Israel and Its Literature
ISBN(s)
  • 9781589836075 (hardcover)
  • 9781589836068 (paper)
Subject
  • Biblical Literature
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  • Table of Contents

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  • Frontmatter
  • Abbreviations (page ix)
  • Introduction (Mark Leuchter and Jeremy M. Hutton, page 1)
  • Part I: Priests and Levites in Social Context
    • Covenant Priesthood: Cross-cultural Legal and Religious Aspects of Biblical and Hittite Priesthood (Ada Taggar-Cohen, page 11)
    • Who Is Sacrificing at Shiloh? The Priesthoods of Ancient Israel's Regional Sanctuaries (Susan Ackerman, page 25)
    • The Levitical Diaspora (II): Modern Perspectives on the Levitical Cities Lists (A Review of Opinions) (Jeremy M. Hutton, page 45)
    • The Social Status of Priestly and Levite Women (Sarah Shectman, page 83)
  • Part II: Priests and Levites in Scriptural Context
    • The Violent Origins of the Levites: Text and Tradition (Joel S. Baden, page 103)
    • Between Shadow and Substance: The Historical Relationship of Tabernacle and Temple in Light of Architecture and Iconography (Cory D. Crawford, page 117)
    • 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 Altmann, page 135)
    • Those Stubborn Levites: Overcoming Levitical Disenfranchisement (Stephen L. Cook, page 155)
  • Part III: Priests and Levites in Exegetical Context
    • Middle-Tier Levites and the Plenary Reception of Revelation (Mark A. Christian, page 173)
    • The Cultic Status of the Levites in the Temple Scroll: Between History and Hermeneutics (Jeffrey Stackert, page 199)
    • From Levite to Maśkîl in the Persian and Hellenistic Eras (Mark Leuchter, page 215)
  • Contributors (page 233)
  • Index of Passages (page 235)
  • Index of Authors (page 250)
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