Banned Birds
The Birds of Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14
The dietary prohibitions in Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14 represent one of the most detailed textual overlaps in the Pentateuch between the Priestly material and Deuteronomy, yet study of them is often stymied by the rare terminology. This is especially the case for the birds: their identities are shrouded in mystery and the reasons for their prohibition debated. Peter Altmann attempts to break this impasse by setting these flyers within the broader context of birds and flying creatures in the Ancient Near East. His investigation considers the zooarcheological data on birds in the ancient Levant, iconographic and textual material on mundane…
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- ISBN: 978-3-16-158163-2
- EAN: 9783161581632
- Produktnummer: 32770441
- Verlag: Mohr Siebeck GmbH & Co. K
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 186 S.
- Masse: H23.3 cm x B16.1 cm x D1.5 cm 313 g
- Gewicht: 313
Über den Autor
Born 1974; 2004 ThM and 2010 PhD in Old Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary; 2016 Habilitation from the University of Zurich; since 2008 doctoral and then post-doctoral researcher in Hebrew Bible Studies at the University of Zurich.
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