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Threshing Floors in Ancient Israel:Their Ritual and Symbolic Significance (Emerging Scholars) Hardcover – June 1, 2015

by Jaime L. Waters (Translator)
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Vital to an agrarian communitys survival, threshing floors are agricultural spaces where crops are threshed and winnowed. But the Hebrew Bible rarely refers to such agricultural activities taking place at such sites. Instead, biblical narratives repeatedly depict threshing floors in ancient Israel as sites for mourning rites, divination rituals, cultic processions, and sacrifices. Kings consult prophets there; even the Solomonic temple was built on a threshing floor.

Jaime L. Waters shows that these originally agricultural sites were also considered sacred spaces connected to Yahweh, under his control, and subject to his power to bless, curse, and save and that Israel had a special ritual access to Yahweh in these powerfully symbolic sites. Waters also examines the various personnel active in the use and operation of threshing floors in these sacred functions in order to draw a more complete picture of ancient Israelite social life. An addendum discusses relevant material for comparison from Ugarit.

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    192 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Fortress Press
  4. Publication date
    June 1, 2015
  5. Dimensions
    6 x 0.56 x 9 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1451499728
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1451499728
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Jaime L. Waters is assistant professor in the department of Catholic studies at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois. This volume is based on her dissertation completed at The Johns Hopkins University under the direction of Theodore J. Lewis.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Fortress Press (June 1, 2015)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1451499728
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1451499728
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.03 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.56 x 9 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars 7 ratings

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S. J Wunderink
5.0 out of 5 stars Great support for threshing floors as sacred spaces in scripture
Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2018
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This is a subject I have become recently interested in "Sacred Space" in the Bible. Threshing floors are one of the first sacred spaces in the ancient world. Waters does a great job in her doctoral thesis giving all the place and implications in scripture of the sacred space connected to threshing floors in the ancient world. Great job. The only negative would be the fact that it is her doctoral work and so it is not a casual read, it is a technical read, which is okay, just be aware of it.
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Jamin D. Bradley
5.0 out of 5 stars Exactly what it says it is
Reviewed in the United States on September 1, 2018
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A great book for exactly the kind of information the title implies. Helps frame some of the Old Testament stories in an intriguing light.
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aaron c.
5.0 out of 5 stars Very good information for a student of scripture
Reviewed in the United States on June 26, 2016
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Very good information for a student of scripture. The teaching of the threshing floor is something that every believer can benefit from. I would recommend this book to anyone searching for better understanding of their bible.
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