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  • Cosmologies of Pure Realms and the Rhetoric of Pollution
    James W. Watts / Yohan Yoo
    This collaboration between two scholars from different fields of religious studies draws on three comparative data sets to develop a new theory of purity and pollution in religion, arguing that a culture’s beliefs about cosmological realms shapes its pollution ideas and its purification practices.  ...
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    77,66 €

  • How and Why Books Matter
    James W. Watts / James WWatts
    Religious and secular communities ritualize some books in one, two, or three dimensions. They ritualize the dimension of semantic interpretation through teaching, preaching, and scholarly commentary. This dimension receives almost all the attention of academic scholars. Communities also ritualize a text’s expressive dimension through public reading, recitation, and song, and al...
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  • Ritual and Rhetoric in Leviticus
    James W. Watts / James WWatts
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    64,10 €

  • Psalm and Story
    James W. Watts
    This book addresses the literary, historical and methodological issues which have been raised by the appearance of psalms in narrative contexts of the Hebrew Bible. The narrative role of each psalm is explored to determine the reasons for its present position. The study of each psalm’s narrative role leads to a re-evaluation of the evidence for its secondary status in the prose...
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    61,48 €

  • Reading Law
    James W. Watts
    Watts here argues that conventions of oral rhetoric were adapted to shape the literary form and contents of the Pentateuch. The large-scale structure-stories introducing lists of laws that conclude with divine sanctions-reproduces a common ancient strategy for persuasion. The laws’ use of direct address, historical motivations and frequent repetitions serve rhetorical ends, and...
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    68,32 €