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The flagship journal of the Society of Biblical Literature, The Journal of Biblical Literature promotes critical and academic biblical scholarship and brings the highest level of scholarly expertise to bear on the study of biblical literature. The Logos edition of The Journal of Biblical Literature gives you access to nearly 20,000 pages of articles, reviews, and news published between 1981 and...

Referring to and developing further the hypothesis of Yehezkel Kaufmann, Israel Knohl shows convincingly in “Between Voice and Silence: The Relationship between Prayer and Temple Cult” that, in contrast to the hymns of the Levites and the free prayer of the people, priestly sacrifices in the temple at Jerusalem were made in silence.1 Knohl’s findings offer a simple, satisfying explanation for
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