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Threshing Floors in Ancient Israel

Their Ritual and Symbolic Significance

by Jaime L. Waters

  • Paperback
  • 192 pages
  • Publisher: Fortress Press,U.S.
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 1.1 cm

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For scholars and enthusiasts of biblical history

Reveals the sacred role of threshing floors in Israel

You will gain deeper insight into ancient Israel's rituals

Explore the ritual and symbolic significance of threshing floors in ancient Israel.

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Vital to an agrarian community's survival, threshing floors are agricultural spaces where crops are threshed and winnowed. But the Hebrew Bible rarely refers to such agricultural activities taking place at such sites. Instead, biblical narratives repeatedly depict threshing floors in ancient Israel as sites for mourning rites, divination rituals, cultic processions, and sacrifices. Kings consult prophets there; even the Solomonic temple was built on a threshing floor. Jaime L. Waters shows that these originally agricultural sites were also considered sacred spaces connected to Yahweh, under his control, and subject to his power to bless, curse, and save and that Israel had a special ritual access to Yahweh in these powerfully symbolic sites. Waters also examines the various personnel active in the use and operation of threshing floors in these sacred functions in order to draw a more complete picture of ancient Israelite social life. An addendum discusses relevant material for comparison from Ugarit.
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  • Author

    Jaime L. Waters

  • Book Format

    Paperback / softback

  • Publisher

    Fortress Press,U.S.

  • Published

    June 2015

  • Weight

    273g

  • Page Count

    192

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 1.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9781451485233

  • ISBN-10

    1451485239

  • Eden Code

    4317431

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