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Family and Household Religion in Ancient Israel and the Levant

Albertz Rainer Schmitt, Rüdiger
Innbundet / 2012 / Engelsk

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Family and Household Religion in Ancient Israel and the Levant

Albertz Rainer Schmitt, Rüdiger
Innbundet / 2012 / Engelsk
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During the past several decades, family and household religion has become a topic of Old Testament scholarship in its own right, fed by what were initially three distinct approaches: the religious-historical approach, the gender-oriented approach, and the archaeological approach. The first pursues answers to questions of the commonality and difference between varieties of family religion and describes the household and family religions of Mesopotamia, Syria/Ugarit, Israel, Philistia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome. Gender-oriented approaches also contribute uniquely important insights to family and household religion. Pioneers of this sort of investigation show that, although women in ancient Israelite societies were very restricted in their participation in the official cult, there were familial rituals performed in domestic environments in which women played prominent roles, especially as related to fertility, childbirth, and food preparation. Archaeologists have worked to illuminate many aspects of this family religion as enacted by and related to the nuclear family unit and have found evidence that domestic cults were more important in Israel than has previously been understood. One might even conceive of every family as having actively partaken in ritual activities within its domestic environment.Family and Household Religion in Ancient Israel and the Levant analyzes the appropriateness of the combined term family and household religion and identifies the types of family that existed in ancient Israel on the basis of both literary and archaeological evidence. Comparative evidence from Iron Age Philistia, Transjordan, Syria, and Phoenicia is presented. This monumental book presents a typology of cult places that extends from domestic cults to local sanctuaries and state temples. It details family religious beliefs as expressed in the almost 3,000 individual Hebrew personal names that have so far been recorded in epigraphic and biblical material. The Hebrew onomasticon is further compared with 1,400 Ammonite, Moabite, Aramean, and Phoenician names. These data encompass the vast majority of known Hebrew personal names and a substantial sample of the names from surrounding cultures. In this impressive compilation of evidence, the authors describe the variety of rites performed by families at home, at a neighborhood shrine, or at work. Burial rituals and the ritual care for the dead are examined. A comprehensive bibliography, extensive appendixes, and several helpful indexes round out the masterful textual material to form a one-volume compendium that no scholar of ancient Israelite religion and archaeology can afford not to own.
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List of FiguresPrefaceAbbreviationsGeneralReference Works1. IntroductionRainer Albertz1.1. History of research1.2. Interdisciplinary approach and temporal limitations of the subject1.3. The structure of the present book2. Methodological Reflections Rainer Albertz2.1. Problems of modern and biblical terminology2.2. The problem of living space in domestic buildings2.3. Overcoming the discrepancy between the archaeological evidence and the biblical ideal2.4. Relations between different types of family households and relations to additional kin2.5. Conclusions for reconstructing the Israelite family and household religion2.6. Religious-historical concepts regarding family religion2.7. Family and household religion within the religion of Israel3. Elements of Domestic Cult in Ancient Israel Rüdiger Schmitt3.1. Methodology3.2. Diagnostic objects and cult patterns3.3. Domestic cultic assemblages in Iron Age Judah and Israel3.4. Patterns of domestic cult activities in Iron Age Israel and Judah3.5. Comparative data from sites outside Israel and Judah4. Typology of Iron Age Cult Places Rüdiger Schmitt4.1. Domestic cult: The house as space for ritual activities (Type IA)4.2. Domestic shrines (Type IB)4.3. Patterns of cult places outside the domestic realm4.4. Conclusions5. Personal Names and Family Religion Rainer Albertz5.1. Introductory questions5.2. Religious beliefs expressed in Hebrew personal names5.3. Family beliefs related to the conduct of everyday life5.4. The deities venerated in family religion5.5. Iconographic evidence from iconic stamp seals regarding personal piety and family religion (R. Schmitt)6. Rites of Family and Household Religion Rüdiger Schmitt6.1. Introduction6.2. Rites and rituals associated with the cycle of human life6.3. Rites, rituals, and observances set by the calendar6.4. Occasional rituals6.5. Taboos and other observances6.6. Family rites and rituals and their significance for the symbolic system of the family7. Care for the Dead in the Context of the Household and Family Rüdiger Schmitt7.1. Introduction7.2. Status of the dead7.3. Mourning the dead7.4. Burying the dead7.5. Feeding the dead and other forms of post-mortem care for the dead7.6. Commemorating the dead7.7. Interrogating the dead7.8. Summary and conclusions: The functions of mortuary rites in the context of family and household religion8. SummaryRainer Albertz and Rüdiger Schmitt8.1. Research history8.2. Methodology8.3. Archaeological evidence for domestic religious practices8.4. Typology of cult places outside the domestic realm8.5. The symbolic world of family religion based on personal names8.6. Rites and rituals of family religion8.7. Care for the dead in the context of household and family religionAdditional Tables (Tables 3.6–3.9, 5.1–5.16)Rainer Albertz and Rüdiger SchmittAppendix A. Comparative Table of Israelite and Judean Assemblages in Alphabetical OrderRüdiger SchmittAppendix B. Personal Names: A Comprehensive List Rainer AlbertzB1. Names of Thanksgiving1.1. Divine attention1.2. Divine salvation1.3. Divine assistance1.4. Divine protectionB2. Names of Confession2.1. Divine attention2.2. Divine rescue2.3. Divine assistance2.4. Divine protection2.5. Trust in god2.6. Relationship of personal trust in godB3. Names of Praise3.1. Praise for the greatness of god3.2. Praise for the goodness of god3.3. Praise that god is alive3.4. Call to praise and worship godB4. Equating Names4.1. Terms of kinship4.2. Equating a personal/tutelary god with another god4.3. Equating Baal with another god4.4. Equating Yhwh or other major deities with another god4.5. Old epithetsB5. Names of Birth5.1. The distress of infertility5.2. Prayers and vows5.3. Birth oracles5.4. Conception and pregnancy5.5. Creation and birth5.6. Acceptance of the child; care, naming, and circumcision of the child5.7. Misfortune in the vicinity of birth5.8. Infant mortality and substitute namesB6. Secular Names6.1. Names related to the situation of birth6.2. Personality traits6.3. Comparing the child with animals and plantsIllustration Sources: AcknowledgmentsBibliographyIndexesIndex of AuthorsIndex of Ancient Personal NamesIndex of Textual SourcesIndex of Sites and Place-NamesIndex of Subjects
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During the past several decades, family and household religion has become a topic of Old Testament scholarship in its own right, fed by what were initially three distinct approaches: the religious-historical approach, the gender-oriented approach, and the archaeological approach. The first pursues answers to questions of the commonality and difference between varieties of family religion and describes the household and family religions of Mesopotamia, Syria/Ugarit, Israel, Philistia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome. Gender-oriented approaches also contribute uniquely important insights to family and household religion. Pioneers of this sort of investigation show that, although women in ancient Israelite societies were very restricted in their participation in the official cult, there were familial rituals performed in domestic environments in which women played prominent roles, especially as related to fertility, childbirth, and food preparation. Archaeologists have worked to illuminate many aspects of this family religion as enacted by and related to the nuclear family unit and have found evidence that domestic cults were more important in Israel than has previously been understood. One might even conceive of every family as having actively partaken in ritual activities within its domestic environment.Family and Household Religion in Ancient Israel and the Levant analyzes the appropriateness of the combined term family and household religion and identifies the types of family that existed in ancient Israel on the basis of both literary and archaeological evidence. Comparative evidence from Iron Age Philistia, Transjordan, Syria, and Phoenicia is presented. This monumental book presents a typology of cult places that extends from domestic cults to local sanctuaries and state temples. It details family religious beliefs as expressed in the almost 3,000 individual Hebrew personal names that have so far been recorded in epigraphic and biblical material. The Hebrew onomasticon is further compared with 1,400 Ammonite, Moabite, Aramean, and Phoenician names. These data encompass the vast majority of known Hebrew personal names and a substantial sample of the names from surrounding cultures. In this impressive compilation of evidence, the authors describe the variety of rites performed by families at home, at a neighborhood shrine, or at work. Burial rituals and the ritual care for the dead are examined. A comprehensive bibliography, extensive appendixes, and several helpful indexes round out the masterful textual material to form a one-volume compendium that no scholar of ancient Israelite religion and archaeology can afford not to own.
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List of FiguresPrefaceAbbreviationsGeneralReference Works1. IntroductionRainer Albertz1.1. History of research1.2. Interdisciplinary approach and temporal limitations of the subject1.3. The structure of the present book2. Methodological Reflections Rainer Albertz2.1. Problems of modern and biblical terminology2.2. The problem of living space in domestic buildings2.3. Overcoming the discrepancy between the archaeological evidence and the biblical ideal2.4. Relations between different types of family households and relations to additional kin2.5. Conclusions for reconstructing the Israelite family and household religion2.6. Religious-historical concepts regarding family religion2.7. Family and household religion within the religion of Israel3. Elements of Domestic Cult in Ancient Israel Rüdiger Schmitt3.1. Methodology3.2. Diagnostic objects and cult patterns3.3. Domestic cultic assemblages in Iron Age Judah and Israel3.4. Patterns of domestic cult activities in Iron Age Israel and Judah3.5. Comparative data from sites outside Israel and Judah4. Typology of Iron Age Cult Places Rüdiger Schmitt4.1. Domestic cult: The house as space for ritual activities (Type IA)4.2. Domestic shrines (Type IB)4.3. Patterns of cult places outside the domestic realm4.4. Conclusions5. Personal Names and Family Religion Rainer Albertz5.1. Introductory questions5.2. Religious beliefs expressed in Hebrew personal names5.3. Family beliefs related to the conduct of everyday life5.4. The deities venerated in family religion5.5. Iconographic evidence from iconic stamp seals regarding personal piety and family religion (R. Schmitt)6. Rites of Family and Household Religion Rüdiger Schmitt6.1. Introduction6.2. Rites and rituals associated with the cycle of human life6.3. Rites, rituals, and observances set by the calendar6.4. Occasional rituals6.5. Taboos and other observances6.6. Family rites and rituals and their significance for the symbolic system of the family7. Care for the Dead in the Context of the Household and Family Rüdiger Schmitt7.1. Introduction7.2. Status of the dead7.3. Mourning the dead7.4. Burying the dead7.5. Feeding the dead and other forms of post-mortem care for the dead7.6. Commemorating the dead7.7. Interrogating the dead7.8. Summary and conclusions: The functions of mortuary rites in the context of family and household religion8. SummaryRainer Albertz and Rüdiger Schmitt8.1. Research history8.2. Methodology8.3. Archaeological evidence for domestic religious practices8.4. Typology of cult places outside the domestic realm8.5. The symbolic world of family religion based on personal names8.6. Rites and rituals of family religion8.7. Care for the dead in the context of household and family religionAdditional Tables (Tables 3.6–3.9, 5.1–5.16)Rainer Albertz and Rüdiger SchmittAppendix A. Comparative Table of Israelite and Judean Assemblages in Alphabetical OrderRüdiger SchmittAppendix B. Personal Names: A Comprehensive List Rainer AlbertzB1. Names of Thanksgiving1.1. Divine attention1.2. Divine salvation1.3. Divine assistance1.4. Divine protectionB2. Names of Confession2.1. Divine attention2.2. Divine rescue2.3. Divine assistance2.4. Divine protection2.5. Trust in god2.6. Relationship of personal trust in godB3. Names of Praise3.1. Praise for the greatness of god3.2. Praise for the goodness of god3.3. Praise that god is alive3.4. Call to praise and worship godB4. Equating Names4.1. Terms of kinship4.2. Equating a personal/tutelary god with another god4.3. Equating Baal with another god4.4. Equating Yhwh or other major deities with another god4.5. Old epithetsB5. Names of Birth5.1. The distress of infertility5.2. Prayers and vows5.3. Birth oracles5.4. Conception and pregnancy5.5. Creation and birth5.6. Acceptance of the child; care, naming, and circumcision of the child5.7. Misfortune in the vicinity of birth5.8. Infant mortality and substitute namesB6. Secular Names6.1. Names related to the situation of birth6.2. Personality traits6.3. Comparing the child with animals and plantsIllustration Sources: AcknowledgmentsBibliographyIndexesIndex of AuthorsIndex of Ancient Personal NamesIndex of Textual SourcesIndex of Sites and Place-NamesIndex of Subjects
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ISBN
9781575062327
Publisert
2012-04-12
Utgiver
Vendor
Eisenbrauns
Vekt
1656 gr
Høyde
254 mm
Bredde
178 mm
Dybde
57 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
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Product language
Engelsk
Format
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Innbundet
Antall sider
720

Forfatter
Albertz Rainer
Schmitt, Rüdiger

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