Social Inequality in the World of the Text: The Significance of Ritual and Social Distinctions in the Hebrew Bible

by Saul M. Olyan

English description: This volume consists of fifteen of the authors essays, including two that have never been published before. The essays date to the last decade and a half, and all reflect in some manner the authors ongoing interest in literary operations of classification and their social implications, particularly the production of distinctions which create social inequality in the world of the text, and have the potential to generate...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3525550243
• ISBN13: 9783525550243
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"