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Threshing Floors in Ancient Israel

Threshing Floors in Ancient Israel PDF Author: Jaime L. Waters
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
ISBN: 1451485239
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 223

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Book Description
Vital to an agrarian communitys survival, threshing floors are also depicted in the Hebrew Bible as sites for mourning rites, divination rituals, cultic processions, and sacrifices. Jaime L. Waters examines these sacred functions and the various personnel active in the use and operation of the sites and shows that they were sacred spaces connected to Yahweh, under his control and subject to his power to bless, curse, and save, providing Israel a special ritual access to Yahw