Sacred Time, Sacred Place : : Archaeology and the Religion of Israel / / ed. by Barry M. Gittlen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
• MitwirkendeR: Bloch-Smith, Elizabeth,; Dever, William G.,; Gitin, Seymour,; Gittlen, Barry M.,; Levine, Baruch A.,; Lewis, Theodore J.,; Pitard, Wayne T.,; Sasson, Jack M.,; Smith, Jonathan Z.,; Toorn, Karel van der,; Zevit, Ziony,
• HerausgeberIn: Gittlen, Barry M.,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Abbreviations --; Archaeology and the Religion of Israel --; Part I. Charting the Course: The Relationship between Text and Artifact --; Religion Up and Down, Out and In --; Theology, Philology, and Archaeology: In the Pursuit of Ancient Israelite Religion --; Philology and Archaeology: Imagining New Questions, Begetting New Ideas --; Part II. Prayers in Clay: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Figurines --; Israelite Figurines: A View from the Texts --; On the Use of Images in Israel and the Ancient Near East: A Response to Karel van der Toorn --; Part III. The Mythology of Sacred Space: Structure and Structuralism --; Preamble to a Temple Tour --; Solomon's Temple: The Politics of Ritual Space --; The Four-Horned Altar and Sacred Space: An Archaeological Perspective --; Ritual as Symbol: Modes of Sacrifice in Israelite Religion --; Part IV. Death in the Life of Israel --; Death in the Life of Israel --; Tombs and Offerings: Archaeological Data and Comparative Methodology in the Study of Death in Israel --; How Far Can Texts Take Us? Evaluating Textual Sources for Reconstructing Ancient Israelite Beliefs about the Dead --; Indexes --; Index of Authors --; Index of Scripture
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781575065274; 9783110745269
• DOI: 10.1515/9781575065274?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Barry M. Gittlen.

Thirteen essays from an ASOR symposium on the relationship among archaeology, text and our understanding of ancient Israelite religion. Contributors include: J. Z. Smith, W. G. Dever, Z. Zevit, K. van der Toorn, J. M. Sasson, E. Bloch-Smith, S. Gitin, B. A. Levine, W. T. Pitard, T. J. Lewis, and B. M. Gittlen.