The Biblical ḥerem : a window on Israel's religious experience /
"A groundbreaking, and controversial, examination of the herem, a biblical mode of declaring something (objects, people, cities) proscribed. Stern here reconstructs how the herem relates to other modes of thinking, in the Hebrew Bible and elsewhere in the Ancient Near East."--Provided by p...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Atlanta, Georgia :
Scholars Press,
2020.
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| Series: | Brown Judaic studies ;
no. 211. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "A groundbreaking, and controversial, examination of the herem, a biblical mode of declaring something (objects, people, cities) proscribed. Stern here reconstructs how the herem relates to other modes of thinking, in the Hebrew Bible and elsewhere in the Ancient Near East."--Provided by publisher |
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| Item Description: | "This edition contains a new preface that responds to several reviews and reflects further on the ongoing scholarly conversation. The original text is unchanged."--Publishers' preface "Open access edition funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program."--Title page verso. "Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License."--Title page verso. Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (263 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781951498665 1951498666 9781951498672 1951498674 |