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A History of Death in the Hebrew Bible
Language: en
Pages: 336
Authors: Matthew Suriano
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-04-02 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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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
A History of Death in the Hebrew Bible
Language: en
Pages: 296
Authors: Matthew J. Suriano
Categories: Bible
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018 - Publisher:

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The meaning of the afterlife in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament is studied through the ideals of a good death, beginning with burial customs. This book uses buri
Death and Survival in the Book of Job
Language: en
Pages: 213
Authors: Dan Mathewson
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-06-05 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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The Book of Job functions as literature of survival where the main character, Job, deals with the trauma of suffering, attempts to come to terms with a collapse
Life and Death
Language: en
Pages: 231
Authors: Francesca Stavrakopoulou
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-01-28 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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Life and Death: Social Perspectives on Biblical Bodies explores some of the social, material, and ideological dynamics shaping life and death in both the Hebrew
Shades of Sheol
Language: en
Pages: 289
Authors: Philip Johnston
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-08-14 - Publisher: InterVarsity Press

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Philip S. Johnston examines Israelite views on death and afterlife as reflected in the Hebrew Bible and in material remains, and sets them in their cultural, li