Biblical Mourning: Ritual and Social Dimensions

by Saul M. Olyan

2021-01-09 03:37:41

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... Read more
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 andParry. 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 andshaving) 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. Less

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File size8.5 X 5.43 X 0.59 in
Print pages184
PublisherOxford University Press
Publication date August 5, 2004
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780199264865

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