Graduate Student, Department of Biblical Studies
Thesis Title: "For Good Remembrance before God in this Place": An analysis of the votive inscriptions from Mount Gerizim
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Niels Peter Lemche
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Broadly speaking my PhD dissertation is on votive practice, that is the practice of giving gifts to the gods. The terminology on votive practice is 'messy', because the term is used both of all kinds of gifts to the gods and of gifts given as a consequence of a conditional vow (latin: votum).
In my dissertation I argue for a broad defintion and I place votive practice in a theoretical framework of gift giving.
The empirical part of the dissertation is an analysis of the votive inscriptions from Mount Gerizim, published by Yitzhak Magen in 2004. I base my analysis of the inscriptions on the theoretical framework mentioned above and I relate them to votive practice in the Hebrew Bible.
In the final part of the dissertation I focus on the aspect of good remembrance, which is mentioned in the Gerizim inscriptions as well as in several other Aramaic inscriptions and in selected passages in the Hebrew Bible.
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