118-119), including his contemplation that blood is indexed as an important
cultic material (p.
There are 49 black and white illustrations, mostly sketch plans of sites with the temple or other
cultic installation highlighted.
In this way, the hall was a real "vestibule" through which access to the
cultic and training area was afforded to people from outside--individuals requesting the performance of an oracle or the services of a magician or scribal apprentice.
Marvin Sweeney offers not only a meticulous traditio-historical analysis (e.g.,
cultic terminology), he also opens the readers' eyes to the rhetorical strategies in Zephaniah (e.g., repetition).
The assumption that "
cultic" means bad is wrongheaded, he said, explaining that many younger priests gravitate to a sacramental view of priesthood as a reaction to a priestly identity crisis.
This thesis is then supported in a section on the Qumran community whose chief point is how a group of Jews with such obvious
cultic concerns could live apart from the Temple.
In particular, this study would have benefited from some analysis of P in comparison to other biblical
cultic models, as surely P was also invested in showing how its system outstripped competing Israelite conceptions of deity and the ideal cult.
January 10, 2009 (PARIS) a" A statement purporting to come from the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), the
cultic guerrilla force that negotiated during two years with Kampala without siging the final peace deal, announced the immediate termination of its negotiating team.
One, the historical-critical, claims that the Bible objects only to the kinds of homosexual relationships it knew at that time (
cultic, exploitative, commercial, or adult male with adolescent male).
No doubt historical anger at Edom's exploitation of Judah's weakness after the conquest by Babylon fuelled the developing hostility of the literature, while perhaps
cultic recalling of the disaster gave rise to the symbolic identification of Edom with the nations hostile to Israel and to Yahweh who are destined to be judged and overthrown.
Innuendoes of
cultic sacrifice and hysteria, of pageant and interracial symbolism, are whisked about with frenzy.