(Download) "Between Voice and Silence: The Relationship Between Prayer and Temple Cult." by Journal of Biblical Literature # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
eBook details
- Title: Between Voice and Silence: The Relationship Between Prayer and Temple Cult.
- Author : Journal of Biblical Literature
- Release Date : January 22, 1996
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 213 KB
Description
I will begin with several quotations from the words of Yehezkel Kaufmann, who laid down the foundations for the discussion of the issue of the place of prayer in the Priestly Temple: The distinctions drawn by Kaufmann are discussed in the scholarly literature. Nahum Sarna accepted his view in principle, attempting to explain the discontinuity between the psalmic literature and the priestly service in terms of the social gap between the elite priestly class and the circles of poets, who held a secondary status. Menahem Haran and Moshe Greenberg, even though they disagree in their evaluation of the position of prayer in relation to sacrifice, both accept the description of the priestly cult as a silent one. In his article on the law of the wayward wife, Michael Fishbane challenges Kaufmann's position, questioning his theory on the basis of those priestly texts which contain speech: that is, the confession recited over the head of the scapegoat (Lev 16:21) and the adjuration of the wayward wife (Num 5:19-22). He likewise questions Kaufmann's theory on the strength of evidence from the Second Temple period and from rabbinic literature relating to the song of the Levites and the prayer of the high priest on the Day of Atonement. Finally, Fishbane comments that Kaufmann obscured his own arguments by defining all of the words that accompanied ritual as "magic." (2)