The 'Grammar' of Sacrifice
A Generativist Study of the Israelite Sacrificial System in the Priestly Writings with A 'Grammar' of ?
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 31 July 2014
- ISBN 9780198705567
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages298 pages
- Size 236x165x25 mm
- Weight 606 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 36 diagrams 0
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Short description:
Focusing on ?--the idealized sacrificial system represented in the Priestly laws in the Pentateuch--this study 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.
MoreLong description:
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 Pata?jali, to speak of a "grammar", or "syntax", 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 "grammar" of any ritual system has yet been composed.
This book offers the first such "grammar." Centering on ?--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 "grammar," 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 ? 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 analysis of the physical activity comprising sacrificial procedures. Finally, the problem of meaning in non-linguistic ritual systems is addressed.
[A] meticulous preparation of a "grammar" of the sacrificial system represented in biblical and post-biblical priestly texts (P), which he calls S. ... Devising such a system not only allows Meshel to update and revise our previous understanding of representations of biblical ritual and lexicography.
Table of Contents:
The "Grammar" of Sacrifice
Preface
Introduction
Zoemics
Jugation
Hierarchics
Praxemics
Meaning
The Grammar of Sacrifice and the Sacrifice of Grammar
Bibliography
A Grammar of ?
Zoemics
Jugation
Hierarchics
Praxemics
