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Death, Burial, and Afterlife in the Biblical World - How the Israelites and Their Neighbors Treated the Dead (Hardcover)
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Death, Burial, and Afterlife in the Biblical World - How the Israelites and Their Neighbors Treated the Dead (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R488
Discovery Miles 4 880
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While the religion of the Bible has long fascinated readers and
scholars, the Israelite attitude toward death remains clouded in
mystery even though certain mortuary customs have been passed
intact through the ages into modern Judaism. The inherently
conservative nature of burial practices and related beliefs
explains why, despite being vilified by kings, a Cult of the Dead
survived for centuries among the common people. Rachel Hallote's
fascinating book examines the archaeological, literary, and
artistic evidence for the burial practices of biblical times, their
antecedents and successors. Ms. Hallote traces Judaic attitudes
toward the dead across the centuries, as burial practices were
transformed by the Jews encounter with Persia, Greece, and Rome,
and their evolution into the practices of modern Judaism and
Christianity. She carries the story forward to the present, with
its complex interplay of religious, political, and social beliefs
that characterize Western attitudes toward death, burial, and
afterlife. While Israelites and early Jews would regularly tamper
with their graves, pushing skeletons aside and collecting bones,
such rituals are now regarded as desecration proving that even
death can be politicized.
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