Threshing Floors in Ancient Israel: Their Ritual and Symbolic Significance

Threshing Floors in Ancient Israel: Their Ritual and Symbolic Significance
ISBN-10
1451496605
ISBN-13
9781451496604
Category
Religion
Pages
215
Language
English
Published
2015-06-01
Publisher
Fortress Press
Author
Jaime L. Waters

Description

Vital to an agrarian community's survival, threshing floors are also depicted in the Hebrew Bible as sites for mourning rites, divination rituals, cultic processions, and sacrifices. Jaime L. Waters examines these sacred functions and the various personnel active in the use and operation of the sites and shows that they were sacred spaces connected to Yahweh, under his control and subject to his power to bless, curse, and save, providing Israel a special ritual access to Yahweh.

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