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- Title
Another Look at the Magical Ritual for a Suspected Adulteress in Numbers 5:11-31.
- Authors
MILLER, DANIEL
- Abstract
The article looks at the account of the suspected adulteress in numbers 5:11 to 31 of the Masoretic Text and contends that the procedure performed by the priest is another magical and Yahwistic ritual with the Tetragramaton appearing seven times. The author adds that the words spoken by the priest are incantatory in nature. The Hebrew Bible indicates that a cosmology similar to that of the Egyptians was shared by the Israelites. He concludes that the biblical writers missed to see the priests as "magicians."
- Subjects
CLERGY; ADULTERY; MAGIC; RITUAL; WITCHCRAFT
- Publication
Magic, Ritual & Witchcraft, 2010, Vol 5, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1556-8547
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/mrw.0.0171