Destiny of the Defiant by Wold, Donald J.;

Semantic Field Analysis of Biblical Kārēt

Series: Forschungen zum Alten Testament 2. Reihe; 161;

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Edition number 1
Publisher Mohr Siebeck
Date of Publication 18 June 2025

ISBN 9783161640681
Binding Paperback
No. of pages341 pages
Size 232x155x18 mm
Weight 512 g
Language English

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"Was geschieht mit dem unbußfertigen Sünder? Die Hebräische Bibel verhängt kārēt / ""Abschneidung"". Donald J. Wolds semantische Feldanalyse der hebräischen, griechischen, Qumran- und rabbinischen Quellen zeigt, dass kārēt als Fluch, der dem hochmütigen Sünder das ewige Leben verweigert, allein von Gott vollstreckt wird. In this detailed study on the meaning of the biblical term kārēt , ""cutting off"", Donald J. Wold concludes that the penalty is a conditional divine curse denying eternal life to the defiant, ""high-handed"" sinner (Num 15:30). He is the first scholar to examine kārēt in the Hebrew Bible, the Septuagint, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and rabbinic sources. Ancient Near Eastern literature furnishes analogues to kārēt in Akkadian, West Semitic, Hittite, and Egyptian. Previous explanations have not accounted for its full semantic range, prompting the author to employ semantic-field analysis. He shows that kārēt is never enacted by humans. It is executed only by God for violations against sacred time, sacred substance, illicit sex and worship, idolatry, blasphemy, and failure to perform certain purification rituals - crimes against God alone."

Chapter 1 The Road Ahead
Chapter 2 On Meaning and Method
2.1 Introduction
2.2 The Meaning of Meaning
2.3 The Priestly Writer
2.4 Semantic Field Theory
2.5 Summary
Chapter 3 The Semantic Field of Kārēt
3.1 Introduction
3.2 The Kārēt-Formula
3.3 The Semantic Field of Kārēt in Akkadian
3.4 The West-Semitic Semantic Field of Kārēt
3.5 The Hittite Evidence
3.6 Syntagmatic Terms and Phrases in Relation to Kārēt
3.7 Summary
Chapter 4 The Context Situations of Kārēt
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Violations Against Sacred Time
4.3 Violations Against Sacred Substance
4.4 Failure to Perform Purification Rituals
4.5 Illicit Worship
4.6 Forbidden Sexual Relations
4.7 Blasphemy
4.8 Summary
Chapter 5 The Semantic Field of the Verb כרת in the Septuagint
5.1 Introduction
5.2 The Qal of כרת and Covenant Formation
5.3 Terms for Non-Covenantal כרת
5.4 The Niphal of כרת outside the Kārēt-Formula
5.5 The Hiphal of כרת outside the Kārēt-Formula
5.6 The Niphal and Hiphil of כרת in the Kārēt-Formula
5.7 The Semantic Field of Kārēt in the LXX
5.8 Summary
Chapter 6 Kārēt in the Dead Sea Scrolls
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Manual of Discipline
6.3 War Scroll – 1QM I,4
6.4 Thanksgiving Hymns
6.5 Pesher to 4QpPs37
6.6 Patriarchal Blessing 4QPB
6.7 Zadokite Fragments
6.8 Summary
Chapter 7 Kārēt and Afterlife
7.1 Introduction
7.2 The Expression נאסף אל עמיו
7.3 The Expression sbj n k3.f
7.4 What’s in a Name?
7.5 Death and Afterlife in Mesopotamia
7.6 Notes on Rabbinic Kārēt and Afterlife
7.7 Summary
Chapter 8 Synopsis and Conclusion