EBOOK 'Grammar' of Sacrifice: A Generativist Study of the Israelite Sacrificial System in - Naphtali S. Meshel

EBOOK 'Grammar' of Sacrifice: A Generativist Study of the Israelite Sacrificial System in
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Autor: Naphtali S. Meshel

 Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780191015458
EAN: C00C7CC4EB
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Stron: 304
Data wydania: 2014
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A Generativist Study of the Israelite Sacrificial System in the Priestly Writings with A 'Grammar' of Σ
The notion that rituals, like natural languages, are governed by implicit, rigorous rules led scholars in the last century, harking back to the early Indian grammarian PataAjali, to speak of a "e;grammar"e;, or "e;syntax"e;, of ritual, particularly sacrificial ritual. Despite insightful examples of ritual complexes that follow hierarchical rules akin to syntactic structures in natural languages, and ambitious attempts to imagine a Universal Grammar of sacrificial ritual, no single,comprehensive "e;grammar"e; of any ritual system has yet been composed. This book offers the first such "e;grammar."e; Centering on Σ--the idealized sacrificial system represented in the Priestly laws in the Pentateuch--it demonstrates that a ritual system is describable in terms of a set of concise, unconsciously internalized, generative rules, analogous to the grammar of a natural language. Despite far-reaching diachronic developments, reflected in Second Temple and rabbinic literature, the ancient Israelite sacrificial system retained a highly unchangeable"e;grammar,"e; which is abstracted and analysed in a formulaic manner.  The limits of the analogy to linguistics are stressed: rather than categories borrowed from linguistics, such as syntax and morphology, the operative categories of Σ are abstracted inductively from the ritual texts: zoemics--the study of the classes of animals used in ritual sacrifice; jugation-the rules governing the joining of animal and non-animal materials; hierarchics-the tiered structuring of sacrificial sequences; and praxemics--the analysisof the physical activity comprising sacrificial procedures. Finally, the problem of meaning in non-linguistic ritual systems is addressed.

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