Judahite Burial Practices And Beliefs About The Dead
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Judahite Burial Practices And Beliefs About The Dead
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Author : Elizabeth Bloch-Smith
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 1992-05-01
Judahite Burial Practices And Beliefs About The Dead written by Elizabeth Bloch-Smith and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-05-01 with History categories.
The family tomb as a physical claim to the patrimony, the attributed powers of the dead and the prospect of post-mortem veneration made the cult of the dead an integral aspect of the Judahite and Israelite society. Over 850 burials from throughout the southern Levant are examined to illustrate the Judahite form of burial and its development. Vessels for foods and liquids were of paramount importance in the afterlife, followed by jewellery with its protective powers. The cult of the dead began to be an unacceptable feature of the Jerusalem Yahwistic cult in the late eighth to seventh century BCE. This change of attitude was precipitated by the fall of the northern kingdom of Israel and the consequent theological response.
Judahite Burial Practices And Beliefs About The Dead
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Author : David C. Mitchell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Judahite Burial Practices And Beliefs About The Dead written by David C. Mitchell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with categories.
Judahite Burial Practices And Beliefs About The Dead
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Author : Elizabeth Mara Bloch-Smith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Judahite Burial Practices And Beliefs About The Dead written by Elizabeth Mara Bloch-Smith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Burial categories.
Judahite Burial Practices And Beliefs About The Dead
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Author : Elizabeth Bloch-Smith
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 1992-05-01
Judahite Burial Practices And Beliefs About The Dead written by Elizabeth Bloch-Smith and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-05-01 with History categories.
The family tomb as a physical claim to the patrimony, the attributed powers of the dead and the prospect of post-mortem veneration made the cult of the dead an integral aspect of the Judahite and Israelite society. Over 850 burials from throughout the southern Levant are examined to illustrate the Judahite form of burial and its development. Vessels for foods and liquids were of paramount importance in the afterlife, followed by jewellery with its protective powers. The cult of the dead began to be an unacceptable feature of the Jerusalem Yahwistic cult in the late eighth to seventh century BCE. This change of attitude was precipitated by the fall of the northern kingdom of Israel and the consequent theological response.
A History Of Death In The Hebrew Bible
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Author : Matthew Suriano
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018-04-02
A History Of Death In The Hebrew Bible written by Matthew Suriano and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-02 with Religion categories.
Postmortem existence in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament was rooted in mortuary practices and conceptualized through the embodiment of the dead. But this idea of the afterlife was not hopeless or fatalistic, consigned to the dreariness of the tomb. The dead were cherished and remembered, their bones were cared for, and their names lived on as ancestors. This book examines the concept of the afterlife in the Hebrew Bible by studying the treatment of the dead, as revealed both in biblical literature and in the material remains of the southern Levant. The mortuary culture of Judah during the Iron Age is the starting point for this study. The practice of collective burial inside a Judahite rock-cut bench tomb is compared to biblical traditions of family tombs and joining one's ancestors in death. This archaeological analysis, which also incorporates funerary inscriptions, will shed important insight into concepts found in biblical literature such as the construction of the soul in death, the nature of corpse impurity, and the idea of Sheol. In Judah and the Hebrew Bible, death was a transition that was managed through the ritual actions of the living. The connections that were forged through such actions, such as ancestor veneration, were socially meaningful for the living and insured a measure of immortality for the dead.
Death Burial And Afterlife In The Biblical World
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Author : Rachel S. Hallote
language : en
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Release Date : 2001
Death Burial And Afterlife In The Biblical World written by Rachel S. Hallote and has been published by Ivan R. Dee Publisher this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Burial categories.
Rachel Hallote's Book examins the archaeological, literary, and artistic evidence for the burial practices of biblical times, their antecedents, and successors.
Death In Jewish Life
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Author : Stefan C. Reif
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2014-08-27
Death In Jewish Life written by Stefan C. Reif and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-27 with Religion categories.
Jewish customs and traditions about death, burial and mourning are numerous, diverse and intriguing. They are considered by many to have a respectable pedigree that goes back to the earliest rabbinic period. In order to examine the accurate historical origins of many of them, an international conference was held at Tel Aviv University in 2010 and experts dealt with many aspects of the topic. This volume includes most of the papers given then, as well as a few added later. What emerges are a wealth of fresh material and perspectives, as well as the realization that the high Middle Ages saw a set of exceptional innovations, some of which later became central to traditional Judaism while others were gradually abandoned. Were these innovations influenced by Christian practice? Which prayers and poems reflect these innovations? What do the sources tell us about changing attitudes to death and life-after death? Are tombstones an important guide to historical developments? Answers to these questions are to be found in this unusual, illuminating and readable collection of essays that have been well documented, carefully edited and well indexed.
Israel S Beneficent Dead
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Author : Brian B. Schmidt
language : en
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
Release Date : 1996
Israel S Beneficent Dead written by Brian B. Schmidt and has been published by Eisenbrauns this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with History categories.
Did the ancient Israelites perform rituals expressive of the belief in the supernaturalbeneficent power of the dead? Contrary to long held notions of primitive society and the euhemeristic origin of the divine, various factors indicate that the ancestor cult, that is, ancestor veneration or worship, was not observed in the Iron Age Levant. The Israelites did not adopt an ancient Canaanite ancestor cult that became the object of biblical scorn. Yet, a variety of mortuary rituals and cults were performed in Levantine society; mourning and funerary rites and longer-term rituals such as the care for the dead and commemoration. Rituals and monuments in or at burial sites, and especially the recitation of the deceased's name, recounted the dead's lived lives for familial survivors. They served broader social functions as well; e.g., to legitimate primogeniture and to reinforce a community's social collectivity. Another ritual complex from the domain of divination, namely necromancy, might have expressed the Israelite dead's beneficent powers. Yet, was this power to reveal knowledge that of the dead or was it a power conveyed through the dead, but that remained attributable to another supranatural being of non-human origin? Contemporary Assyrian necromancers utilized the ghost as a conduit through which divine knowledge was revealed to ascertain the future and so Judah's king Manasseh, a loyal Assyrian vassal, emulated these new Assyrian imperial forms of prognostication. As a de-legitimating rhetorical strategy, necromancy was then integrated into biblical traditions about the more distant past and attributed fictive Canaanite origins (Deut 18). In its final literary setting, necromancy was depicted as the Achille's heel of the nation's first royal dynasty, that of the Saulides (1 Sam 28), and more tellingly, its second, that of the Davidides (2 Kgs 21:6; 23:24).
Roll Back The Stone
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Author : Byron R. McCane
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2003-04-01
Roll Back The Stone written by Byron R. McCane and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-04-01 with Religion categories.
McCane offers here a dazzling examination of funerary practices in early Roman Palestine.
The Oxford Handbook Of Jeremiah
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Author : Louis Stulman
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2021
The Oxford Handbook Of Jeremiah written by Louis Stulman and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Religion categories.
"This essay provides an overview of the book of Jeremiah, its historical background, distinctive literary character, language of trauma and resilience, dominant ideologies, and the state of 20th and 21st century Jeremian scholarship. It concludes with an explanation of the goals and structure of the Handbook"--