A history of death in the Hebrew Bible
The meaning of the afterlife in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament is studied through the ideals of a good death, beginning with burial customs. This book uses burial remains from Iron Age Judah to shed important light on the images of death found in biblical literature.
| Summary: | The meaning of the afterlife in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament is studied through the ideals of a good death, beginning with burial customs. This book uses burial remains from Iron Age Judah to shed important light on the images of death found in biblical literature. Cover -- Half title -- A History of Death in the Hebrew Bible -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Note on Sources -- Archaeological Periodization and Chronology/BCE -- Map -- Prolegomenon: The Afterlife Embodied -- The Problem of Death in the Hebrew Bible -- Theories of Mortuary Practice -- From an Idealist to a Representationist Approach -- Ritual and the Body -- Understanding Ancestors -- Contemplating Death -- Part I: The Archaeology of Death in Iron Age Judah -- 1. Death as Transition in Judahite Mortuary Practices -- The Judahite Bench Tomb as Ritual Space -- The Tomb as Separation -- The Liminal Space of the Tomb -- Marginality and Identity in Judahite Mortuary Practices -- Synthesis -- 2. The History of the Judahite Bench Tomb -- Mortuary Practices in the Iron Age -- The First Phase: Iron Age IB to Iron Age IIA -- The Second Phase: Iron Age IIB -- The Third Phase: Iron Age IIIA -- Jerusalem: Iron Age IIB through Iron Age III -- Historical Analysis -- 3. Writing and the Tomb -- The Funerary Inscriptions of the Silwan Necropolis -- The Identification of the Dead at Silwan -- Shebna's Tomb and the Silwan Necropolis -- The Tomb Inscriptions of Khirbet el-Qôm -- The Inscriptions of Khirbet Beit Lei Tomb 1 -- The Ketef Hinnom Silver Amulets -- Analysis of Hebrew Funerary Inscriptions -- Summary of Part I: A Brief History of Death in Judah during the Iron Age -- Part II: Death and the Afterlife in the Hebrew Bible -- 4. Care for the Dead -- Care for the Defunct Soul -- The נפש as Defunct Soul in Leviticus -- The נפש as Defunct Soul in Numbers -- The npš in Aramaic Inscriptions -- Feeding the Dead -- Deuteronomy 26:14 and the Parameters of Feeding the Dead -- Feeding the Dead in Hosea 9:4 -- Feeding the Dead at Zincirli (Sam'al) -- Feeding the Dead in Job 21:25 -- Dedications for the Dead -- Conclusion. |
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| ISBN: | 0190844744 |