Just sent off proofs for "The Biblical Priestly Tradition as Material Religion: A Comparative Ancient Mediterranean Approach," part of an attempt to theorize the most prominent biblical source as a semiotic ideology--a claim about how words and things work.
It connects a striking, often-remarked feature of the ritual--the near-total absence of prayer--with a striking but less-remarked feature of the narrative--the way divine language, and only divine language, structures reality.
