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Product Description: Although the relationship of the Hebrew Bible and violence has been of interest to scholars in recent years, ritual violence in its various manifestations has been underexplored, as have been the theoretical dimensions of ritual violence...read more
By Saul M. Olyan (editor)

Hardcover:

9780190249588 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 1, 2015, cover price $74.00 | About this edition: Although the relationship of the Hebrew Bible and violence has been of interest to scholars in recent years, ritual violence in its various manifestations has been underexplored, as have been the theoretical dimensions of ritual violence.

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By Saul M. Olyan (editor)

Hardcover:

9781930675933, titled "Worship, Women, and War: Essays in Honor of Susan Niditch" | Brown Judaic Studies, October 30, 2015, cover price $59.95

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By Saul M. Olyan (editor)

Hardcover:

9789004230767 | Brill Academic Pub, August 1, 2012, cover price $138.00

Paperback:

9781589836884 | Society of Biblical Literature, June 22, 2012, cover price $29.95

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Product Description: The first book to explore the religious dimensions of the family and the household in ancient Mediterranean and West Asian antiquity. Advances our understanding of household and familial religion, as opposed to state-sponsored or civic temple cults Reconstructs domestic and family religious practices in Egypt, Greece, Rome, Israel, Mesopotamia, Ugarit, Emar, and Philistia Explores many household rituals, such as providing for ancestral spirits, and petitioning of a household's patron deities or of spirits associated with the house itself Examines lifecycle rituals – from pregnancy and birth to maturity, old age, death, and beyond Looks at religious practices relating to the household both within the home itself and other spaces, such as at extramural tombs and local sanctuaries...read more
By Saul M. Olyan (editor)

Paperback:

9781118255339 | Blackwell Pub, February 28, 2012, cover price $52.95 | About this edition: The first book to explore the religious dimensions of the family and the household in ancient Mediterranean and West Asian antiquity.

Miscellaneous:

9781444302981 | Blackwell Pub, May 12, 2009, cover price $110.95

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Product Description: Mental and physical disability, ubiquitous in texts of the Hebrew Bible, receive their first thoroughgoing treatment in this monograph. Olyan seeks to reconstruct the Hebrew Bible's particular ideas of what is disabling and their potential social ramifications...read more

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9780521888073 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, May 26, 2008), cover price $99.99 | About this edition: Mental and physical disability, ubiquitous in texts of the Hebrew Bible, receive their first thoroughgoing treatment in this monograph.

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Product Description: Good and evil, clean and unclean, rich and poor, self and other. The nature and function of such binary oppositions have long intrigued scholars in such fields as philosophy, linguistics, classics, and anthropology. From the opening chapters of Genesis, in which God separates day from night, and Adam and Eve partake of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, dyadic pairs proliferate throughout the Hebrew Bible...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780691029481 | Princeton Univ Pr, April 17, 2000, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Good and evil, clean and unclean, rich and poor, self and other.

Hardcover:

9781555402532 | Scholars Pr, December 1, 1988, cover price $20.95

Paperback:

9781555402549 | Society of Biblical Literature, December 1, 1988, cover price $29.95

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