Kingdom of Priests Ancestry and Merit in Ancient Judaism

Name: Kingdom of Priests Ancestry and Merit in Ancient Judaism
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ISBN: 9780812239508

ISBN-10: 0812239504

ISBN-13: 9780812239508

Edition: 2007

Authors: Martha Himmelfarb

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"According to the account in the Book of Exodus, God addresses the children of Israel as they stand before Mt. Sinai with the words, "You shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation" (19:6). The sentence, Martha Himmelfarb observes, is paradoxical, for priests are by definition a minority, yet the meaning in context is clear: the entire people is holy. The words also to point to some significant tensions in the biblical understanding of the people of Israel. If the entire people is holy, why does it need priests? If membership in both people and priesthood is a matter not of merit but of birth, how can either the people or its priests hope to be holy? How can one reconcile the…

Book details

List price: $74.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date: 10/10/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 280
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English



Introduction



Priest and Scribe: Ancestry and Professional Skill in the Book of the Watchers, the Wisdom of Ben Sira, and Aramaic Levi



Jubilees' Kingdom of Priests



Priesthood and Purity Laws: The Temple Scrolland the Damascus Document



Priesthood and Sectarianism: The Rule of the Community, the Damascus Document, and the Book of Revelation



Priesthood and Allegory: Philo and Alexandrian Judaism



"The Children of Abraham Your Friend": The End of Priesthood, the Rise of Christianity, and the Neutralization of Jewish Sectarianism


Acknowledgments


Bibliography


Index