TY - BOOK AU - Society of Biblical Literature International Meeting 2013 Saint Andrews ED - MacDonald, Nathan PY - 2016 DA - 2016// TI - Ritual innovation in the Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism T3 - Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft Band 468 PB - De Gruyter CY - Berlin KW - Judaism KW - Customs and practices KW - History AB - "What are rituals, if not ancient practices, unchanged throughout generations? Yet, if we compare the rituals described in late Second Temple texts to those in the Hebrew Bible it is apparent that rituals do change. Were such rituals practiced, or were they forms of textual imagination? How do rituals change and how are such changes authorized? Do textual innovation and ritual innovation relate?"-- SN - 3110372738 LA - English N1 - edited by Nathan MacDonald ID - 820087335 ER -