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Hardcover The Grammar of Sacrifice: A Generativist Study of the Israelite Sacrificial System in the Priestly Writings with the Grammar of Σ Book

ISBN: 0198705565

ISBN13: 9780198705567

The Grammar of Sacrifice: A Generativist Study of the Israelite Sacrificial System in the Priestly Writings with the 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 Patanjali, 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...

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