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Biblical Mourning: Ritual and Social Dimensions »

Authors: Saul M. Olyan
ISBN-13: 9780199264865, ISBN-10: 0199264864
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: February 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Saul M. Olyan

Saul M. Olyan is Professor of Judaic Studies and Religious Studies at Brown University.

Book Synopsis

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.

	Abbreviations
	Introduction	1
1	Mourning the Dead	28
2	Petitionary Mourning	62
3	Mourning in Other Contexts	97
4	The Constraints on Mourning Rites	111
5	The Sanctioned Mixing of Mourning and Rejoicing	124
	Conclusion	137
	Bibliography	154
	Index of Biblical References	163
	General Index	171