Ritual legitimacy and scriptural authority

Journal of Biblical Literature

Volumn 124, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 401-417

  Watts, James W ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 62449319137     PISSN: 00219231     EISSN: 19343876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/30041032     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. Phillipe Buc, The Dangers of Ritual: Between Early Medieval Texts and Social Scientific Theory (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001), 6-7, 251
2. Ronald Grimes, Beginnings in Ritual Studies (rev. ed.; Studies in Comparative Religion; Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1995), 91
3. William Scott Green, "Romancing the Tome: Rabbinic Hermeneutics and the Theory of Literature," Semeia 40 (1987): 147-68
4. Thomas F. Driver, The Magic of Ritual: Our Need for Liberating Rites That Transform Our Lives and Our Communities (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1991), 141-42
5. As observed famously by F. R. Kraus, "Ein zentrales Problem des altmesopotamischen Rechts: Was ist der Codex Hammu-Rabi?" Genava 8 (1960): 283-96
6. see also Hans Jochen Boecker, Law and the Administration of Justice in the Bible and the Ancient Near East (trans. Jeremy Moiser; Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1980)
7. See Dennis J. McCarthy, Treaty and Covenant: A Study in Form in the Ancient Oriental Documents and in the Old Testament (2nd rev. ed.; AnBib 21; Rome: Pontifical Biblical Institute, 1981)
8. Donald B. Redford, "The So-Called 'Codification' of Egyptian Law under Darius I," in Persia and Torah: The Theory of Imperial Authorization of the Pentateuch (ed. James W. Watts; SBLSymS 17; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2001), 151
9. See John F. A. Sawyer, Sacred Languages and Sacred Texts (Religion in the First Christian Centuries; London: Routledge, 1999), 152-61
10. Fritz Stahl went so far as to argue that ritual consists of nothing but close attention to repetitive actions ("The Meaninglessness of Ritual," Numen 26, no. 1 [1979]: 2-22)
11. Commentators take the reference here to the days of Joshua as involving only the manner in which the festival was celebrated; see David J. A. Clines, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther (NCB; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1984), 186-88
12. Hugh G. M. Williamson, Ezra, Nehemiah (WBC 16; Waco: Word, 1985), 296-97
13. who reviews the issue and research), but others have argued that Chronicles was entirely dependent on Kings (J. W. McKay, Religion in Judah under the Assyrians [Naperville, IL: Allenson, 1973]
14. H. G. M. Williamson, 1 and 2 Chronicles [NCB; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1982], 397-98)
15. "Lamentations of Isis and Nephthys," trans. Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature, 3:116-21
16. Dennis Pardee, Ritual and Cult at Ugarit (WAW 10; Atlanta: SBL, 2002), 12-13, 200
17. RS 12.277, line 9; trans. Pardee, Ritual and Cult at Ugarit, 130
18. see also Moshe Weinfeld, "Social and Cultic Institutions in the Priestly Source against Their Ancient Near Eastern Background," in Proceedings of the Eighth World Congress of Jewish Studies (Jerusalem: Magnes, 1983), 99
19. Weinfeld, "Social and Cultic Institutions," 98-99
20. cf. Itamar Singer, Hittite Prayers (WAW 11; Atlanta: SBL, 2002), 83
21. or ANET, 346-61
22. The Second Plague Prayer of Mursili §§3-6
23. trans. Singer, Hittite Prayers, 58-59
24. Trans. Dennis Pardee, COS 1:98
25. Lysias (trans. W. R. M. Lamb; LCL; London: Heinemann; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1930)
26. For a recent discussion, see Sawyer, Sacred Languages, 152-53
27. William W. Hallo, "Letters, Prayers and Letter-Prayers," in Proceedings of the Seventh World Congress of Jewish Studies (ed. Y. Gutman; Jerusalem: Perry Foundation, 1981), 17-27
28. David Lorton, "The Theology of the Cult Statues in Ancient Egypt," in Born in Heaven, Made on Earth: The Making of the Cult Image in the Ancient Near East (ed. Michael Dick; Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 1999), 149
29. See Knoppers, Two Nations under God, 2:164-69
30. Rooke, Zadok's Heirs, 181-82
31. The letters are translated by Bezalel Porton, in The Elephantine Papyri in English (ed. Bezalel Porton; Leiden: Brill, 1996), texts B13-14, B17, B19-21
32. Rooke, Zadok's Heirs, 222 n. 5)
33. Josephus, Ant. 13.3
34. For a brief survey of halakah at Qumran, see Devorah Dimant, "Qumran Sectarian Literature," in Jewish Writings of the Second Temple Period (ed. Michael E. Stone; Philadelphia: Fortress, 1984), 489-502, 526-30
35. See the review and analysis by John C. Poirer, "Purity beyond the Temple in the Second Temple Era," JBL 122 (2003): 247-65
36. For a full exposition of the rhetorical effect of the Torah's contents, see James W. Watts, Reading Law: The Rhetorical Shaping of the Pentateuch (Biblical Seminar 59; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999)
37. The Works of Philo (trans. C. D. Younge; Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1993), 689-70
38. as revised by Lawrence H. Schiffman, Text and Traditions: A Source Reader for the Study of Second Temple and Rabbinic Judaism (Hoboken, NJ: Ktav, 1998), 283
39. (trans. García Martínez, Dead Sea Scrolls, 9)