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Author Bergen, Wesley J.

Title Reading ritual : Leviticus in postmodern culture / Wesley J. Bergen.

Publication Info. London ; New York : T & T Clark International, [2005]
©2005

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Description 1 online resource (140 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 417
Playing the texts ; 9
Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 417.
Playing the texts ; 9.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 124-136) and index.
Contents Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Animal Sacrifice Today; Chapter 3 Sacrificing for the Team: Leviticus 4 and the Church of Monday Night Football; Chapter 4 Ritual Sacrifice in Leviticus, Africa, and North America; Chapter 5 Blood Sacrifice in the United States; Chapter 6 The Afterlife of Leviticus 1-7 in the Church; Chapter 7 Leviticus 7: A Commentary in Three Voices; Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Authors.
Summary This book draws on a variety of disciplines to undertake a unique analysis of Leviticus 1-7. Rather than studying the rituals prescribed in Leviticus as arcane historical/theological texts of little interest to the modern reader, or as examples of primitive rituals that have no parallel in Western society, this book provides many points of contact between animal sacrifice rituals and various parts of post-modern society. Modern rituals such as Monday Night Football, eating fast food, sending sons and daughters off to war, and even the rituals of modern academia are contrasted with the text of.
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Subject Bible. Leviticus, I-VII -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible. A.T. Lévitique. I-VII -- Critique, interprétation, etc.
Bible.
Sacrifice -- Biblical teaching.
Sacrifice -- Biblical teaching.
Ritual -- Biblical teaching.
Ritual.
Biblical teaching.
Postmodernism.
Postmodernism.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Bergen, Wesley J. Reading ritual. London ; New York : T & T Clark International, ©2005 056704081X 9780567040817 (DLC) 2005041856 (OCoLC)57731113
ISBN 9780567524430 (electronic book)
0567524434 (electronic book)
9780567040817
056704081X