Biblical Mourning : Ritual and Social Dimensions
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0199264864
ISBN-13
9780199264865
Publisher
Oxford University Press
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Oxford University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 8th, 2004
Print length
184 Pages
Weight
360 grams
Dimensions
22.40 x 14.70 x 1.70 cms
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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.
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.
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