Death, Burial, and Afterlife in the Biblical World

How the Israelites and Their Neighbors Treated the Dead

By: Rachel S. Hallote

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Hardcover | 16 October 2001

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While the religion of the Bible has long fascinated readers and scholars, the Israelite attitude toward death remains clouded in mystery even though certain mortuary customs have been passed intact through the ages into modern Judaism. The inherently conservative nature of burial practices and related beliefs explains why, despite being vilified by kings, a Cult of the Dead survived for centuries among the common people. Rachel Hallote's fascinating book examines the archaeological, literary, and artistic evidence for the burial practices of biblical times, their antecedents and successors. Ms. Hallote traces Judaic attitudes toward the dead across the centuries, as burial practices were transformed by the Jews encounter with Persia, Greece, and Rome, and their evolution into the practices of modern Judaism and Christianity. She carries the story forward to the present, with its complex interplay of religious, political, and social beliefs that characterize Western attitudes toward death, burial, and afterlife. While Israelites and early Jews would regularly tamper with their graves, pushing skeletons aside and collecting bones, such rituals are now regarded as desecration-proving that even death can be politicized.

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Bold...a fascinating account that is accessible, clear and well-informed.--Ian Morris, author of Burial and Ancient Society

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Preface	p. 5
Acknowledgments	p. 9
Introduction	p. 11
Death in the Biblical World	p. 27
The Cult of the Dead in Ancient Israel	p. 54
A History of Death in the Land of the Bible	p. 69
The Death Customs and Beliefs of Israel's Neighbors	p. 102
The Biblical Origins of Hell and the Devil	p. 123
Resurrection and Lack of Death in the Bible	p. 136
Death in Rabbinic Judaism	p. 150
Jewish Death in the Modern World	p. 169
A History of Mortuary Theory	p. 180
The Politics of Death in Israel	p. 194
Afterword	p. 208
Appendix	p. 210
Notes	p. 213
Bibliography	p. 223
Index	p. 228
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Death, Burial, and Afterlife in the Biblical World

How the Israelites and Their Neighbors Treated the Dead

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Hardcover

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