TY - GEN T1 - Rites and rank : hierarchy in biblical representations of cult A1 - Olyan, Saul M. LA - English PP - Princeton, N.J. PB - Princeton University Press YR - 2000 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocm51453573 AB - 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 signific. OP - 190 CN - BS1199.S59 O49 2000eb SN - 1400812879 SN - 9781400812875 SN - 9780691029481 SN - 0691029482 SN - 9781400823567 SN - 1400823560 KW - Bible. : Old Testament : Criticism, interpretation, etc. KW - Bible : A.T. : Critique, interprétation, etc. KW - Bible. : Old Testament KW - Social stratification in the Bible. KW - Worship in the Bible. KW - Stratification sociale dans la Bible. KW - Cultes dans la Bible. KW - RELIGION : Biblical Criticism & Interpretation : Old Testament. KW - Social stratification in the Bible KW - Worship in the Bible KW - Oude Testament. KW - Cultus. KW - Sociale stratificatie. KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. ER -