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A History of Death in the Hebrew Bible (Hardcover)
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A History of Death in the Hebrew Bible (Hardcover)
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Postmortem existence in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament was rooted
in mortuary practices and conceptualized through the embodiment of
the dead. But this idea of the afterlife was not hopeless or
fatalistic, consigned to the dreariness of the tomb. The dead were
cherished and remembered, their bones were cared for, and their
names lived on as ancestors. This book examines the concept of the
afterlife in the Hebrew Bible by studying the treatment of the
dead, as revealed both in biblical literature and in the material
remains of the southern Levant. The mortuary culture of Judah
during the Iron Age is the starting point for this study. The
practice of collective burial inside a Judahite rock-cut bench tomb
is compared to biblical traditions of family tombs and joining
one's ancestors in death. This archaeological analysis, which also
incorporates funerary inscriptions, will shed important insight
into concepts found in biblical literature such as the construction
of the soul in death, the nature of corpse impurity, and the idea
of Sheol. In Judah and the Hebrew Bible, death was a transition
that was managed through the ritual actions of the living. The
connections that were forged through such actions, such as ancestor
veneration, were socially meaningful for the living and insured a
measure of immortality for the dead.
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