REDES MÁGICO-MÍTICAS NO ALVORECER DE ISRAEL “RELIGIÃO” NO PLATÔ DE BENJAMIM NO FERRO I-IIA

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Ano de defesa: 2019
Autor(a) principal: CARDOSO, SILAS KLEIN
Orientador(a): Kaefer, José Ademar
Banca de defesa: Uehlinger, Christoph, Pozzer, Katia Maria Paim, Nogueira, Paulo Augusto de Souza, Siqueira, Tércio Machado
Tipo de documento: Tese
Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
Idioma: por
Instituição de defesa: Universidade Metodista de Sao Paulo
Programa de Pós-Graduação: Ciencias da Religiao
Departamento: Ciencias da Religiao:Programa de Pos Graduacao em Ciencias da Religiao
País: Brasil
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Link de acesso: http://tede.metodista.br/jspui/handle/tede/1930
Resumo: This research investigates the religious practices in the region around Benjamin’s plateau, current Israel/Palestine, in the Iron Age I-IIA (c. 1125-875), place and time of the probable origin of “Ancient Israel.” It sustain two hypotheses, respectively of empiric and theoretical dimensions: (1) that Benjamin’s plateau in the Iron Age I-II have seen and an identifiable religious-symbolical system; (2) that this religious system can be visualized from the (original) concept of Magical-Mythical Networks. Regarding the theoretical objectives, it was conducted a bibliographical research in the seminal works of the History of Ancient Israelite Religion and, from its critical evaluation, it was suggested that Benjamin’s religion can be seen from the concept of “Magical-Mythical Networks”, i.e., religious-symbolic systems expressed in shared oral communication (e.g., myths, stories, legends) and materialized in objects (e.g., pottery, seals, talismans, figurines) in circular communication structures centered on ranked villages, whose peculiarities creates and were created due to the contact with the environment and social dynamics. In addition, in response to the empirical hypothesis, nine archaeological sites excavated in the region were analyzed in the region (Beitin; Tell el-Jîb; Et-Tell; Khirbet Abū-Musarraḥ; Khirbet ed- Dawwara; Khirbet Nisieh; Khirbet Raddana; Tell el-Fûl; Tell en-Nasḅeh), from which material, visual, and textual cultures were researched. From the proposed methodology, it was possible to probe the existence of a Benjaminite religioussymbolical system that could be described in practices and beliefs. The practices were distributed in two levels; (1) familiar (i.e., related to the house and family), in residential and funerary architectural compounds, and with practices linked to preoccupations within the domestic environment; (2) village level (i.e., related to the village and collective), in village sanctuaries and open-air cults, and with practices connected to preoccupations of the village, as food production. Regarding the beliefs, three central concepts emerge transversally in the record, and that were considered central to the socio-religious imagination of the Benjaminites: (1) the idea of extended family; (2) beliefs in the after-life; (3) violence and war.