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In this detailed study on the meaning of the biblical term k?r?t , "cutting off", Donald J. Wold concludes that the penalty is a conditional divine curse denying eternal life to the defiant, "high-handed" sinner (Num 15:30). He is the first scholar to examine k?r?t in the Hebrew Bible, the Septuagint, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and rabbinic sources. Ancient Near Eastern literature furnishes analogues to k?r?t in Akkadian, West Semitic, Hittite, and Egyptian. Previous explanations have not accounted for its full semantic range, prompting the author to employ semantic-field analysis. He shows that k?r?t is never enacted by humans. It is executed only by God for violations against sacred time, sacred substance, illicit sex and worship, idolatry, blasphemy, and failure to perform certain purification rituals - crimes against God alone.
Price: £94.00
Pages: 341
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Imprint: Mohr Siebeck
Series: Forschungen zum Alten Testament 2. Reihe
Publication Date:
18 June 2025
ISBN: 9783161640681
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
Chapter 1 The Road Ahead
Chapter 2 On Meaning and Method
2.1 Introduction
2.2 The Meaning of Meaning
2.3 The Priestly Writer
2.4 Semantic Field Theory
2.5 Summary
Chapter 3 The Semantic Field of K?r?t
3.1 Introduction
3.2 The K?r?t-Formula
3.3 The Semantic Field of K?r?t in Akkadian
3.4 The West-Semitic Semantic Field of K?r?t
3.5 The Hittite Evidence
3.6 Syntagmatic Terms and Phrases in Relation to K?r?t
3.7 Summary
Chapter 4 The Context Situations of K?r?t
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Violations Against Sacred Time
4.3 Violations Against Sacred Substance
4.4 Failure to Perform Purification Rituals
4.5 Illicit Worship
4.6 Forbidden Sexual Relations
4.7 Blasphemy
4.8 Summary
Chapter 5 The Semantic Field of the Verb ??? in the Septuagint
5.1 Introduction
5.2 The Qal of ??? and Covenant Formation
5.3 Terms for Non-Covenantal ???
5.4 The Niphal of ??? outside the K?r?t-Formula
5.5 The Hiphal of ??? outside the K?r?t-Formula
5.6 The Niphal and Hiphil of ??? in the K?r?t-Formula
5.7 The Semantic Field of K?r?t in the LXX
5.8 Summary
Chapter 6 K?r?t in the Dead Sea Scrolls
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Manual of Discipline
6.3 War Scroll – 1QM I,4
6.4 Thanksgiving Hymns
6.5 Pesher to 4QpPs37
6.6 Patriarchal Blessing 4QPB
6.7 Zadokite Fragments
6.8 Summary
Chapter 7 K?r?t and Afterlife
7.1 Introduction
7.2 The Expression ???? ?? ????
7.3 The Expression sbj n k3.f
7.4 What’s in a Name?
7.5 Death and Afterlife in Mesopotamia
7.6 Notes on Rabbinic K?r?t and Afterlife
7.7 Summary
Chapter 8 Synopsis and Conclusion