Who is Israel? Who were the priestly authors of the Pentateuch? This anthropological reading of the Bible, by a world-renowned scholar, starts by asking why the Book of Numbers lists the twelve tribes of Israel seven times. Mary Douglas argues that the editors, far from being a separate elite unconcerned with their congregation's troubles, cherished a political agenda, a religious protest against the government of Judah's exclusionary policies. The priestly theology depends on God's Covenant with all the descendants of Jacob, including the sons of Joseph. It would have been unpatriotic, even subversive, to speak against the wars with Samaria. This book suggest an explanation of the editors' disappearance from the history of Israel.
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a brilliant synthesis of literary, historical and anthropological perspectives in understanding the priestly contribution ... a stimulating hypothesis and an insightful engagement with the particular emphases of the priestly work. Bernon Lee, Journal of Hebrew Scriptures Mary Douglas...is the most celebrated British Anthropologist in the past half-century, and Jacob's Tears demonstrates why she remains so. Christopher Howse, The Tablet a brilliant and compelling thesis...this is an excellent and thought provoking book. Evangelical Quarterly
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Mary Douglas is Emerita Professor of Anthropology at University College London
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What motivated the priestly editors to compose the Pentateuch? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
two violent events, priestly editors, priestly books, scapegoat rite, desert tabernacle, holiness school, taboo system, ancestor cults, brother tribes, foreign marriages, ring composition, foreign wife, purity rules, temple community, returned exiles Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
King Balak, Day of Atonement, Mount Sinai, Oxford University Press, Jacob Milgrom, Northern Kingdom, Sheffield Academic Press, Morton Smith, Nelson Goodman, Cambridge University Press, Robert Parker, Ezra Redefines, World Renewed, Jacob Weeping, Joseph Blenkinsopp, The Sanctuary of Silence, Torah Commentary, Anchor Bible, Ezra Nehemiah, Garden City, Hebrew Bible, Jewish Publication Society, Reading the Priestly Books, The Magnes Press, Fustel de Coulanges New!
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What motivated the priestly editors to compose the Pentateuch? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
two violent events, priestly editors, priestly books, scapegoat rite, desert tabernacle, holiness school, taboo system, ancestor cults, brother tribes, foreign marriages, ring composition, foreign wife, purity rules, temple community, returned exiles Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
King Balak, Day of Atonement, Mount Sinai, Oxford University Press, Jacob Milgrom, Northern Kingdom, Sheffield Academic Press, Morton Smith, Nelson Goodman, Cambridge University Press, Robert Parker, Ezra Redefines, World Renewed, Jacob Weeping, Joseph Blenkinsopp, The Sanctuary of Silence, Torah Commentary, Anchor Bible, Ezra Nehemiah, Garden City, Hebrew Bible, Jewish Publication Society, Reading the Priestly Books, The Magnes Press, Fustel de Coulanges New!
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- Leviticus As Literature by Mary Douglas on 5 pages
- Annotated Key to Lambdin's Introduction to Biblical Hebrew (Manuals Series) by H. G. M. Williamson on 4 pages
- Problems and Projects by Nelson Goodman on page 134, and page 166
- Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo (Routledge Classics) by Mary Douglas on page 65, and page 123
- History and Ideology in Ancient Israel by Giovanni Garbini on page 19, and page 63
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