Where Doom is Spoken: Threshing Floors as Places of Decision and Communication in Biblical Literature
The fact that an unusual number of supernatural events occur at threshing floors in biblical literature has long been a subject of scholarly interest but seldom of comprehensive inquiry. This has recently changed with a publication arguing that the complex of threshing floor phenomena is explained b...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Brill
2016
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Journal of ancient Near Eastern religions
Année: 2016, Volume: 16, Numéro: 1, Pages: 95-120 |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Religion
Hebrew Bible
Ugarit
Ugaritic myth
threshing floors
theophany
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Volltext (Verlag) |
| Résumé: | The fact that an unusual number of supernatural events occur at threshing floors in biblical literature has long been a subject of scholarly interest but seldom of comprehensive inquiry. This has recently changed with a publication arguing that the complex of threshing floor phenomena is explained by biblical conceptions of the relationship between YHWH and the site. In this article I will argue instead that it is the nature of the floor itself and its varied uses on multiple levels of society which created associations and layers of meaning that explain the association of threshing floors with decision and communication. The Yahwistic explanation for these associations favored by biblical authors is a response originating in a biased source, rather than a statement of a universal reality. |
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| ISSN: | 1569-2124 |
| Contient: | In: Journal of ancient Near Eastern religions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15692124-12341280 |