Israel in the Biblical Period: Institutions, Festivals, Ceremonies, Rituals (Biblia.com)

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In this short, accessible and readable book, Professor Soggin gives an account of all the features of Israelite and Jewish religion in the biblical period. After a radical assessment of the nature of the sources and the problems of using them historically, he discusses the origin of monotheism and Israel’s belief in its one God Yahweh. Then follow accounts of the three most important features in...

of Josh. 5:10ff. and Deut. 16:9, the Feast of Unleavened Bread is connected with the barley harvest, the first fruit of the firstfruits because it comes before all the crops. It also follows that this is the festival of a sedentary rural population which was accustomed to eat the produce of the first crop ritually, in the course of the celebration avoiding contact between this and either the previous crop or foreign elements. It did so out of an ancient custom, now no longer conscious, which some

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