A History of Death in the Hebrew Bible

Suriano is to be commended for this effort to bring social and archaeological questions to bear on the meaning of the Hebrew text. He has made an impressive contribution to the study of death in ancient Israel.

Auteur
Matthew Suriano is an Assistant Professor in the Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Maryland. His research focuses on the history and culture of ancient Israel through the integration of biblical literature, Northwest Semitic inscriptions, and the archaeology of the Levant. He received his PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures.

Texte du rabat

• 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 burial remains from Iron Age Judah to shed important light on the images of death found in biblical literature.

Contenu

• Acknowledgements

• Abbreviations

• Note on Sources

• Chronology

• Map

• Prolegomenon: The Afterlife Embodied

• Part I: The Archaeology of Death in Iron Age Judah

• Chapter One: Death as Transition in Judahite Mortuary Practices

• Chapter Two: The History of the Judahite Bench Tomb

• Chapter Three: Writing and the Tomb

• Part II: Death and the Afterlife in the Hebrew Bible

• Chapter Four: Care for the Dead

• Chapter Five: The Narrative of Bones

• Chapter Six: The Tomb and the Identity of the Dead

• Chapter Seven: Death, Dying, and the Liminality of Sheol

• Epilogue: The Invisible Tomb