[PDF.59ez] Jacob's Tears: The Priestly Work of Reconciliation

Jacob's Tears: The Priestly Work of Reconciliation

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 | #2778723 in Books |  Oxford University Press, USA |  2007-02-03 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  5.40 x.50 x8.40l,.63 | File type: PDF | 218 pages

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||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Enlightener|By J. H. Levie|Mary Douglas had a most unusual,wonderful mind. She could look at a subject, usually an old, central,topic, that a thousand minds had seen before land see patterns that made sense but that no one had seen. before. Andshe was not a mere inconclast--that's easy but crude--but a person who truly sheds a new light, a trite saying that for once is perfectl| |` from previous edition Mary Douglas ... is the most celebrated British anthropologist in the past half-century, and Jacob's Tears demonstrates why she remains so.'
Christopher Howse, The Tablet|About the Author|Mary

Who is Israel? Who were the priestly authors of the Pentateuch? This anthropological reading of the Bible, by a world-renowned scholar, starts by asking why the Book of Numbers lists the twelve tribes of Israel seven times. Mary Douglas argues that the editors, far from being a separate elite unconcerned with their congregation's troubles, cherished a political agenda, a religious protest against the government of Judah's exclusionary policies. The priestly theology depe...

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