Sprache:
Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr:
2024
Titel der Quelle:
Tracing the Ritual Body
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2024) 65-78
Schlagwort(e):
Bell, Catherine M.,
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Hezekiah, Biblical teaching
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Bible. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Ritual in the Bible
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God Biblical teaching
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Assyria In the Bible
Kurzfassung:
In her seminal study, Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice, Catherine Bell defines “ritualization” as a process in which the ritualized body engages in a strategy of behavior, among several different strategies that could be selected, in order to reinterpret reality and thereby generate a redemptive hegemonic order, or empowerment by the newly created environment. This understanding may be particularly illuminating when exploring a society’s response to a given crisis. Just such a crisis was the Neo-Assyrian campaign against Jerusalem, as recorded in 2 Kings 18–19, 2 Chronicles 29–32, and Isaiah 26–37. The crisis takes place during the reign of Hezekiah who had also been engaging in a number of cultic reforms which the text suggests were not universally accepted. Rabshakeh’s verbal indictments appear to have been an attempt to exacerbate the already existing religious tensions. The ritual activities engaged by Hezekiah in response suggest that he chose a particular set of strategies that both “reinterpreted” the event within his own reforms and reordered the relationship between the king and the divine.
DOI:
10.5040/9780567710574.ch-003
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