TY - BOOK AU - Stern,Philip D. AU - Satlow,Michael L. ED - National Endowment for the Humanities, ED - Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, TI - The Biblical ḥerem: a window on Israel's religious experience T2 - Brown Judaic studies SN - 9781951498665 AV - BS680.E88 PY - 2020/// CY - Atlanta, Georgia PB - Scholars Press KW - Bible KW - Old Testament KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - fast KW - Excommunication KW - Biblical teaching KW - Enseignement biblique KW - Electronic books KW - e-books KW - Livres numériques N1 - "This edition contains a new preface that responds to several reviews and reflects further on the ongoing scholarly conversation. The original text is unchanged."--Publishers' preface; "Open access edition funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program."--T.p. verso; "Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License."--T.p. verso N2 - "A groundbreaking, and controversial, examination of the herem, a biblical mode of declaring something (objects, people, cities) proscribed. Stern here reconstructs how the herem relates to other modes of thinking, in the Hebrew Bible and elsewhere in the Ancient Near East."--Provided by publisher UR - https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvzpv53h ER -