Materialität und Spiritualität im altisraelitischen Opferkult: Religionsgeschichtliche Abstraktionsprozesse
Abstract In the ancient near East, including ancient Israel, the material value of sacrifice was held in high esteem. In the sacrificial system of Leviticus 1-5, however, we find modes of abstraction from the material value of offerings which have parallels to the invention of money in ancient Greec...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | German |
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Brill
2021
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Vetus Testamentum
Year: 2021, Volume: 71, Issue: 1, Pages: 27-47 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Money
/ Sacrifice (Religion)
/ Sacrifice
/ Abstraction
/ Greece (Antiquity)
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament HD Early Judaism |
| Further subjects: | B
Bibel. Levitikus, 1-5
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| Summary: | Abstract In the ancient near East, including ancient Israel, the material value of sacrifice was held in high esteem. In the sacrificial system of Leviticus 1-5, however, we find modes of abstraction from the material value of offerings which have parallels to the invention of money in ancient Greece. Here, money as an accepted medium of exchange, was invented with the value of the coin not totally dependent on its metal weight. While in ancient Greece this form of abstraction developed in the economic sphere, in ancient Israel it developed in the religious sphere and paved the way to regard prayers or confessions of faith as equivalent substitutions of material sacrifice. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5330 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Vetus Testamentum
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685330-12341441 |