Rituals and Ritual Theory in Ancient Israel

Gruenwald (religious studies, Tel Aviv U.) begins by defining what he means as ritual and how he distinguishes it from daily human activity, ideology, symbolic structures, religion, and other entities. He looks at economic ethos and rituals in the religion of ancient Israel, the relevance of myth, Halakhah and the study of rituals, sacrifices in biblical literature and ritual theory, and the Lord's Supper and ritual theory. He indexes scripture and rabbinical works, but no subjects. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR