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Spoken Word and Ritual Performance: The Oath and the Curse in Deuteronomy 27-28.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Spoken Word and Ritual Performance: The Oath and the Curse in Deuteronomy 27-28./
Author:	Ramos, Melissa Dianne.
Description:	176 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-09(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International76-09A(E).
Subject:	Near Eastern studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3703453
ISBN:	9781321752861

Spoken Word and Ritual Performance: The Oath and the Curse in Deuteronomy 27-28.
Ramos, Melissa Dianne.

Spoken Word and Ritual Performance: The Oath and the Curse in Deuteronomy 27-28. - 176 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-09(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2015.

The composition of Deut 27-28 is shaped by its ritual and performative function and by the narrative device of a script within a speech: the oral and ritual performance of the covenant ceremony by the Levites is framed within the speech-command of Moses. Studies of Deut 28 have largely focused on the textual tradition of this chapter and on its parallels with ancient near eastern treaties, and with the Succession Treaty of Esarhaddon in particular. Many studies view Deut 28 as a collection of isolated units of curse lines disconnected from the ceremonial performance of the covenant ratification ceremony detailed in Deut 27. This is due in part to the commonly held view that chapter 27 is an interpolation and a later addition to the literary unit of 12-26 and 28. However, a re-examination of comparative ancient near eastern evidence and a fresh literary analysis of 27 suggests that chapters 27-28 form a unified whole. A text-centric approach to Deut 28 has left largely unexamined the oral and ritual performance described in Deut 27. Ratification of oaths and treaties in the ancient near east was performative and entailed speaking words of power and performing ritual acts such as the slaughter of an animal or the ceremonial breaking of weapons. Deut 27 also furnishes instructions for the erection of an altar, ritual sacrifices, and an oral recitation of "all the words of this torah" including the blessings and curses in chapter 28. This concept of oaths and treaties as scripts is explored using the Aramaic Sefire treaty as a test case. An analysis of the curse segment of the Sefire treaty shows syntactical features typical of spoken language, suggesting that the curse portion of the written treaty was shaped by oral recitation and/or an oral tradition of formulaic curse language. The text-centric approach to studies of Deut 28 has also hindered examination of parallels between treaties and ritual and performative texts, and especially incantations. A study of contiguities between Deut 27-28 and the Neo-Assyrian incantation series Maqlu and Surpu reveals compelling thematic, linguistic, and formological parallels.

ISBN: 9781321752861Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122821
Near Eastern studies.

Spoken Word and Ritual Performance: The Oath and the Curse in Deuteronomy 27-28.
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