Threshing Floors In Ancient Israel:Their Ritual And Symbolic Significance (Emerging Scholars)

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

• • Author: Jaime L. Waters
• • Publisher: Fortress Press
• • Publication Date: Jun 01, 2015
• • Number of Pages: 192 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1451485239
• • ISBN-13: 9781451485233