Biblical Mourning: Ritual and Social Dimensions. By Saul M. Olyan
While biblical mourning rites have been much studied recently, Olyan contends that their ritual and social dimensions have not been adequately or systematically studied, and offers a good if brief monograph to fill the gap. His introduction presents a survey first of social-scientific discussion of...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2008
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2008, Volume: 59, Issue: 1, Pages: 205-206 |
| Review of: | Biblical mourning (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2004) (Johnston, Philip)
Biblical mourning (Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2004) (Johnston, Philip) |
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| Summary: | While biblical mourning rites have been much studied recently, Olyan contends that their ritual and social dimensions have not been adequately or systematically studied, and offers a good if brief monograph to fill the gap. His introduction presents a survey first of social-scientific discussion of mourning, principally that of Hertz and van Gennep in the early twentieth century, and of ritual aspects of biblical mourning. This leads to a useful taxonomy of four types of mourning, which are then analysed in some detail in the next three chapters., Mourning the dead is the main and paradigmatic type, and chapter 2 examines its many aspects: ritual behaviour, social separation, relationship with the dead, and the various human participants. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flm113 |