Tracing the Ritual Body: Catherine Bell and Rituals of the Ancient Biblical World

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Professor Ada Taggar Cohen Professor Richard E. DeMaris

Tracing the Ritual Body

Catherine Bell and Rituals of the Ancient Biblical World

Professor Ada Taggar Cohen, Professor Richard E. DeMaris, Dr. Jonathan Schwiebert

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T.& T.Clark Ltd
17 October 2024

Worship, rites & ceremonies

Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies

This volume utilizes Catherine Bell’s ritual theory to shed new light on the many rituals reflected in ancient Mediterranean texts. In recent decades scholars of religion have come to realize that ritual and bodily practices are just as important for religion as beliefs and doctrine. With the development of ritual studies in the 1990s there arose a critical framework for investigating ritual and practice. Only recently, however, has Bell’s theorizing been employed to study the rituals portrayed in ancient texts. This cross-disciplinary examination assesses the utility of Bell’s theorizing for studying the textual evidence for rituals of the ancient Near East, the Hebrew Bible, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the New Testament, and other early Christian literature.

The contributors to this volume illustrate a path away from regarding rituals as inert and fixed and toward a more complex and vibrant interactive model of ritual behaviour. In this volume, as each scholar works to recover the traces of long-past rituals in a particular set of materials, these and other concepts are consciously employed to guide or challenge the investigation, pushing beyond previous conclusions about ancient rituals. The contributors’ attention to theory, and especially the social context, practical function, and symbolic interpretation, set this collection apart from studies that consider the rituals in more traditional textual ways.

Edited by: Professor Ada Taggar Cohen, Professor Richard E. DeMaris, Dr. Jonathan Schwiebert
Imprint: T.& T.Clark Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 236mm, Width: 154mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 460g
ISBN: 9780567710550
ISBN 10: 0567710556
Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 17 October 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ada Taggar Cohen is Professor of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at Doshisha University, Japan. Richard E. DeMaris is Senior Research Professor at Valparaiso University, USA. Jonathan Schwiebertis Professor of Religious Studies at Lenoir-Rhyne University, USA.

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Tracing the Ritual Body

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Professor Ada Taggar Cohen, Professor Richard E. DeMaris, Dr. Jonathan Schwiebert

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