The book powerfully makes a claim, to which I am likewise very committed in my own work, that when set in a particular context, instructions, procedures, and lists – I will return to lists later – can be read not only as impressive literary accomplishments but also as mines for intellectual history.An AJR tweet explains the context of this essay:
This week and next, we are sharing the papers from a book event for Dr. Liane Feldman's "The Story of Sacrifice: Ritual and Narrative in the Priestly Source." Today's contribution, "Procedure as Imaginative Art," is written by Dr. Mira Balberg.A summary of the PhD dissertation that is the basis of the book is here. For more on the book itself (Mohr Siebeck, 2020), see here.
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