New Perspectives on Ritual in the Biblical World

List of Abbreviations Introduction Part 1: Bodies, Gender and Ritual 1. An Indecent Proposal or a Ritualized Quest for Survival? The Threshing Floor Episode in Ruth 3 Reconsidered, Ekaterina E. Kozlova, London School of Theology, UK 2. Ritual, Gender, and History in 1-2 Kings, Cat Quine, University of Nottingham UK 3. Milk, Meat, and Mothers: The Problem of Motherhood in Some Ritual Food Laws, Nicole Ruane, University of New Hampshire, UK 4. Drinking the Golden Calf: Consumption and Transformation in Exodus 32, Laura Quick, University of Oxford, UK Part II: Magic and Ritual 5. Satan and the High Priest: Zechariah 3 as Exorcism, Isabel Cranz, University of Pennsylvania, USA 6. Contested Divination: Biblical Necromancy and Competition among Ritual Specialists in Ancient Israel, Kerry Sonia, Colby College, USA 7. Binding Asmodeus: A Lexical Analysis of the Ritual and Medical Use of Fish in Tobit, Lindsay Askin, University of Bristol, UK 8. Enchant the Sabbath Day to Make it Holy: Conjuration and Performativity in Exodus 20:8-11, Timothy Hogue, UCLA and Loyola Marymount University, USA Part III: Textualization and Ritual 9. Aaron’s Body as Ritual Vessel, Alice Mandell, Johns Hopkins University, USA 10.The Literary Representation of Sacrifice in Biblical Narrative, Liane Feldman, New York University, USA 11. “The Offerings of the Tribal Leaders, the Purification of the Levites, and the Hermeneutics of Ritual Innovation”, Nathan MacDonald, Cambridge University, UK 12. Monumentalizing Slaughter: ‘Cutting a Covenant’ in the Hebrew Bible and Levantine Inscriptions, Melissa Ramos, George Fox University, USA 13. Silver Scripts: The Ritual Function of Purified Metal in Ancient Judah, Jeremy Smoak, UCLA, USA Bibliography Index