Zadok''s Heirs - The Role and Development of the High Priesthood in Ancient Israel

Zusatztext Deborah Rooke offers detailed and carefully ordered investigations of a wide range of primary source materials ... Her comprehension of this vast array of writings! her familiarity with the secondary literature about them and the erudition she so often displays make this a truly remarkable book! not least for the amount and quality of the information it has to offer ... This is a book which no student of the Jewish priesthood can afford to ignore. Klappentext This unique study is the first systematic examination to be undertaken of the high priesthood in ancient Israel, from the earliest local chief priests in the pre-monarchic period down to the Hasmonaean priest-kings in the first century BCE. Zusammenfassung This unique study is the first systematic examination to be undertaken of the high priesthood in ancient Israel, from the earliest local chief priests in the pre-monarchic period down to the Hasmonaean priest-kings in the first century BCE.

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• Autori: Deborah W. Rooke, Deborah W. (Research Fellow in Bible and Mu Rooke, Deborah W. (Research Fellow in Bible and Music Rooke
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.08.2012
• EAN: 9780199661114
• ISBN: 978-0-19-966111-4
• Pagine: 404
• Serie: Oxford Theological Monographs; Oxford Theological Monographs; Oxford Theology and Religion M
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Religione / teologia > Cristianesimo; Judentum: Leben und Praxis, RELIGION / Judaism / History, RELIGION / Biblical Studies / Old Testament, Religion - Judaism, RELIGION / Judaism / Rituals & Practice