1. Introduction
Samuel E. Balentine
2. Mesopotamian Religion
Tzvi Abusch
3. Ritual and Worship in Ancient Egypt
Emily Teeter
4. The Hittites Serve Their Gods
Gary Beckman
5. Syria-Palestine: Worship and Ritual
Adrian Curtis
6. The Greeks and Their Rituals
Barbara Kowalzig
Part II Interpretive Approaches
7. History of Religion
Lester L. Grabbe
8. Rituals and Ritual Theory: A Methodological Essay
Ithamar Gruenwald
9. Social and Cultural Anthropology
William K. Gilders
Part III Ritual Elements: Participants, Places, Times, Objects, Practices
10. God, Gods, and Humankind (Worldview)
Friedhelm Hartenstein
11. Sacred Space and Common Space
Michael B. Hundley
12. Ritual Experts and Participants in the Ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible
Thomas Hieke
13. Sacred and Ritual Times
Andrew R. Davis
14. Ritual Objects and Artifacts
Ryan P. Bonfiglio
15. Ritual and Religious Practices
Roy E. Gane
16. Ritualizing Iconic Jewish Texts
James W. Watts
17. Ritualizing Christian Iconic Texts
Dorina Miller Parmenter
18. Ritualizing Muslim Iconic Texts
Jonas Svensson
Part IV Cultural and Theological Perspectives
19. Sin and Expiation
David Janzen
20. Clean/Unclean, Pure/Impure, Holy/Profane
Jonathan D. Lawrence
21. Sickness and Healing
Deborah Rooke
22. Death and Afterlife
Brian B. Schmidt
23. Divine Presence and Absence
Angelika Berlejung
Part V History of Interpretation
24. Ritual and Worship at Qumran
Eileen M. Schuller
25. Influence on Early Christian Worship
Paul F. Bradshaw
26. Ritual and Worship in Early Judaism
Judith H. Newman
27. Rabbinic Judaism
Stefan C. Reif
Part VI Social-Cultural Functions
28. The Politics of Worship
William S. Morrow
29. The Ethics of Worship
Eryl Davies
30. Socio-Religious Functions of Worship
Stephen L. Cook
31. The Economics of Worship in Ancient Israel and Judah
Joachim Schaper
Part VII Theology and Theological Heritage
32. Ritual Theology in/and Biblical Theology
Gerald Klingbeil
33. Welcoming the Sabbath on the Kibbutzim: Secular Religiosity
Dalia Marx
34. One God, Multiple Rituals and Theologies: Christianity
Rodney A. Werline