RT Book
T1 The unremembered dead: the non-burial motif in the Hebrew Bible
T2 Perspectives on Hebrew scriptures and its contexts
JF Perspectives on Hebrew scriptures and its contexts
A1 Mansen, F. Dorie
LA English
PP Piscataway, NJ
PB Gorgias Press
YR 2018
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1020000074
AB "The Unremembered Dead examines the motif of non-burial in the Hebrew Bible in its ancient Near Eastern contexts. Mansen proposes a new typology for analyzing references to post-mortem abuse and demonstrates the motif's variability of form and range of functions in both biblical and extra-biblical texts. Investigating the social and literary contexts in which the non-burial motif appears, Mansen establishes how gruesome threats functioned as deadly literary weapons within the biblical authors' ideologically-shaped rhetorical arsenal"--
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN BS1199.D34
SN 978-1-4632-0696-3
K1 Bible : Old Testament : Criticism, interpretation, etc
K1 Bible : Criticism, interpretation, etc
K1 Death in the Bible
K1 Burial