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9780691029481

Rites and Rank

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    9780691029481

  • ISBN10:

    0691029482

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2000-04-17
  • Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr

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Summary

Good and evil, clean and unclean, rich and poor, self and other. The nature and function of such binary oppositions have long intrigued scholars in such fields as philosophy, linguistics, classics, and anthropology. From the opening chapters of Genesis, in which God separates day from night, and Adam and Eve partake of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, dyadic pairs proliferate throughout the Hebrew Bible. In this groundbreaking work melding critical exegesis and contemporary theory, Saul M. Olyan considers the prevalence of polarities in biblical discourse and expounds their significance for the social and religious institutions of ancient Israel. Extant biblical narrative and legal texts reveal a set of socially constructed and culturally privileged binary oppositions, Olyan argues, which instigate and perpetuate hierarchical social relations in ritual settings such as the sanctuary. Focusing on four binary pairs--holy/common, Israelite/alien, clean/unclean, and whole/blemished--Olyan shows how these privileged oppositions were used to restrict access to cultic spaces, such as the temple or the Passover table. These ritual sites, therefore, became the primary contexts for creating and recreating unequal social relations. Olyan also uncovers a pattern of challenge to the established hierarchies by nonprivileged groups. Converging with contemporary issues of power, marginalization, and privileging, Olyan's painstaking yet lucid study abounds with implications for anthropology, classics, critical theory, and feminist studies.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
List of Abbreviations
xi
Introduction 3(4)
Status and Hierarchy
7(3)
Cultic and Quasi-Cultic Settings
10(1)
Rites and Rank
11(4)
Foundational Discourse: The Opposition Holy/Common
15(23)
Holiness and Privilege
27(8)
Conclusion
35(3)
Admission or Exclusion: The Binary Pairing Unclean/Clean
38(25)
Sources of Impurity
40(10)
Degrees of Pollution and the Requirements of Purification
50(4)
The Hierarchical Dimensions of Unclean/Clean
54(7)
Conclusion
61(2)
Generating ``Self'' and ``Other'': The Polarity Israelite/Alien
63(40)
Forms and Functions of the Polarity Israelite/Alien
64(26)
Contesting Alien Exclusion from Israel and Its Cultic Life
90(3)
Cultural Mechanisms of Alien Incorporation into Israel
93(6)
Conclusion
99(4)
The Qualified Body: The Dyad Whole/Blemished
103(12)
Blemishes and Inequality
111(2)
Conclusion
113(2)
Conclusion 115(6)
Appendix. The Idea of Holiness in the Holiness Source 121(2)
Notes 123(52)
Index of Authors 175(4)
Index of Biblical Citations 179

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