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Biblical Mourning - Ritual and Social Dimensions (Hardcover, New)
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Biblical Mourning - Ritual and Social Dimensions (Hardcover, New)
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A comprehensive analysis of the ritual dimensions of biblical
mourning rites, this book also seeks to illuminate mourning's
social dimensions through engagement with anthropological
discussion of mourning, from Hertz and van Gennep to contemporaries
such as Metcalf and Huntington and Bloch and Parry. The author
identifies four types of biblical mourning, and argues that
mourning the dead is paradigmatic. He investigates why mourning can
occur among petitioners in a sanctuary setting even given
mourning's death associations; why certain texts proscribe some
mourning rites (laceration and shaving) but not others; and why the
mixing of the rites of mourning and rejoicing, normally
incompatible, occurs in the same ritual in several biblical texts.
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