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Biblical Mourning

Name: Biblical Mourning
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 04530901
Price: 201.09 EUR
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Author: Saul M. Olyan
ISBN: 9780199264865

Ritual and Social Dimensions

Saul M. Olyan

Language

English

Book Hardback

Libristo code: 04530901

Publishers Oxford University Press, January 2004

A comprehensive analysis of the ritual dimensions of biblical mourning rites, this book also seeks t... Full description

Libristo code: 04530901

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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.