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Ancient Israel's literary prophets are seldom viewed, by biblical scholars, as divine agents of persuasion. Instead, scholars tend to examine biblical prophecies as literature and concentrate on the form and structure of the text. In addition, because prophetic literature is abu…

Bridging studies of folklore and vernacular architecture, this ethnography explores the Jewish festival of Sukkot. During this annual weeklong celebration, observant Jews build and inhabit temporary ritual structures (sukkot) that commemorate the Israelites' biblical journey thr…

The dissertation addresses the problem that descriptions of the Festival of Sukkot in Tannaitic texts diverge from prescriptions for Sukkot in the Tanakh. Ancient Israel's autumn festival is remembered in the Tanakh as having marked the completion of the ingathering, included pi…