Violent Rituals of the Hebrew Bible

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Violent Rituals of the Hebrew Bible is written by Saul M. Olyan and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0190681926 (ISBN 10) and 9780190681920 (ISBN 13).

Although seldom studied by biblical scholars as a discrete phenomenon, ritual violence is mentioned frequently in biblical texts. Violent Rituals of the Hebrew Bible is the first book to investigate violent rites, the ritual settings in which they occur, their various literary contexts, and the identity and aims of their agents in order to speak in an informed way about the contours and social aspects of ritual violence as it is represented in the Hebrew Bible.