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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Main Author: Stern, Philip D. (Author)
Corporate Authors: JSTOR (Organization), National Endowment for the Humanities (sponsoring body.), Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (sponsoring body.)
Other Authors: Satlow, Michael L. (editorial director.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Atlanta, Georgia : Scholars Press, 2020.
Series:Brown Judaic studies ; no. 211.
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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
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.
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Physical Description:1 online resource (263 pages)
ISBN:9781951498665
1951498666
9781951498672
1951498674