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Author Stavrakopoulou, Francesca.

Title Land of our fathers : the roles of ancestor veneration in biblical land claims / Francesca Stavrakopoulou.

Publication Info. New York : T & T Clark, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 189 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 473
T & T Clark library of biblical studies
Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 473.
T & T Clark library of biblical studies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-172) and indexes.
Summary This book argues that ancestor veneration plays important, and hitherto overlooked, socio-religious and ideological roles in various and competing territorial claims as presented in the Hebrew Bible.
Contents Bones, burials and boundaries -- Abraham at Machpelah -- Moses at the edge -- Contesting Bethel -- Claiming Jerusalem -- Creation of a nation.
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Subject Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible. Old Testament.
Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible -- O.T. -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible. Old Testament.
Land tenure -- Biblical teaching.
Land tenure -- Biblical teaching.
Land tenure.
Ancestor worship -- Biblical teaching.
Ancestor worship -- Biblical teaching.
Ancestor worship.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Stavrakopoulou, Francesca. Land of our fathers. New York : T & T Clark, ©2010 9780567028815 (DLC) 2010010320 (OCoLC)569508901
ISBN 9780567551177 (electronic book)
0567551172 (electronic book)
9781283066655 (electronic book)
1283066653 (electronic book)
9780567028815
056702881X