The Vow and the 'Popular Religious Groups' of Ancient Israel

Berlinerblau argues that in order to procure reliable historical information about ''popular religious groups'' (such as women, non-privileged economic strata, heterodox elements) we must search for what he calls ''implicit evidence'': mundane details regarding the vow which the biblical writers tacitly assumed and hence unknowingly bequeathed to posterity. By piecing together these strands of imp...