Threshing Floors in Ancient Israel: Their Ritual and Symbolic Significance

Jaime L. Waters

thg 6 2015 · Fortress Press

Giới thiệu về sách điện tử này

Vital to an agrarian community's survival, threshing floors are also depicted in the Hebrew Bible as sites for mourning rites, divination rituals, cultic processions, and sacrifices. Jaime L. Waters examines these sacred functions and the various personnel active in the use and operation of the sites and shows that they were sacred spaces connected to Yahweh, under his control and subject to his power to bless, curse, and save, providing Israel a special ritual access to Yahweh.

Giới thiệu tác giả

Jaime L. Waters is assistant professor in the department of Catholic studies at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois. This volume is based on her dissertation completed at The Johns Hopkins University under the direction of Theodore J. Lewis.