Language:
English
Year of publication:
2017
Titel der Quelle:
Journal of Hebrew Scriptures
Angaben zur Quelle:
17 (2017) 27 pp.
Keywords:
Bible. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Space and time in the Bible
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Priests, Jewish Biblical teaching
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Blessing and cursing in the Bible
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Ritual in the Bible
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Inscriptions, Hebrew
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Temples
Abstract:
Past studies emphasize the difficulties in understanding the logic behind the placement of the priestly blessing within the description of tabernacle rituals of Numbers 5:1–10:10. The present article sheds new light on this problem by comparing the blessing in Numbers 6:24–26 to several blessings preserved in Iron Age dedicatory inscriptions. It argues that the locations of such dedications in temple spaces provide new insights into the literary location of the priestly blessing in the book of Numbers.
DOI:
10.5508/jhs.2017.v17.a2
URL:
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