The Biblical ḥerem a window on Israel's religious experience
"A groundbreaking, and controversial, examination of the herem, a biblical mode of declaring something (objects, people, cities) proscribed. Stern here reconstructs how the herem relates to other modes of thinking, in the Hebrew Bible and elsewhere in the Ancient Near East."--Provided by p...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Atlanta, Georgia
Scholars Press
2020, 2020©2020
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| Series: | Brown Judaic studies
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | "A groundbreaking, and controversial, examination of the herem, a biblical mode of declaring something (objects, people, cities) proscribed. Stern here reconstructs how the herem relates to other modes of thinking, in the Hebrew Bible and elsewhere in the Ancient Near East."--Provided by publisher |
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| Item Description: | "This edition contains a new preface that responds to several reviews and reflects further on the ongoing scholarly conversation. The original text is unchanged."--Publishers' preface. - "Open access edition funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program."--T.p. verso. - "Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License."--T.p. verso |
| Physical Description: | 263 pages |
| ISBN: | 9781946527981 9781951498672 |