Jacob's Tears: The Priestly Work of Reconciliation. By Mary Douglas
Jacob's Tears began as a series of essays and, with the encouragement of its publisher, ended as a coherent, unified book. It might almost be said to mirror the corpus it addresses, the work of the biblical priests, as Douglas reads it. The book has four sections: ‘The Legacy of Jacob's So...
| Published in: | The journal of theological studies |
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2007
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2007, Volume: 58, Issue: 1, Pages: 150-153 |
| Review of: | Jacob's tears (Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2004) (Lipton, Diana)
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| Summary: | Jacob's Tears began as a series of essays and, with the encouragement of its publisher, ended as a coherent, unified book. It might almost be said to mirror the corpus it addresses, the work of the biblical priests, as Douglas reads it. The book has four sections: ‘The Legacy of Jacob's Sons’; ‘Who is “All Israel”?’; ‘Before and After the Exile: The Gap in Learning’; and ‘Magic and Monotheism’. Each section has two chapters, some staying close to Douglas's roots in anthropology (Leviticus as textual Sinai, and the body/house cosmogram); some approaching ritual from a literary and theological perspective (Jacob and Joseph the go-away goat), and some predominantly socio-historical (Ezra's reconstitution of Israel). |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/fll019 |