| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 170 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 160-163) and index. |
| Contents |
Preliminaries; CONTENTS; List of illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgments; Glossary; List of abbreviations; 1 The presence of death; 2 Jewish death customs before the rabbis; 3 Early rabbinic death-practices; 4 Early expansions and commentaries; 5 Jewish death-practices in reality; 6 Jewish death-practices in early Byzantine Palestine; 7 Law as commentary: The Bavli on death and burial; 8 The Bavli interprets the mourner; 9 Post-Talmudic developments in Jewish death-practice; 10 A personal theological postscript; Notes; References; Index. |
| Summary |
This is the first study of the death and mourning practices of the founders of Judaism - the Rabbis of late antiquity. The author outlines the rituals described in early texts and interprets them to uncover the beliefs which caused their foundation. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Death -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
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Death -- Religious aspects -- Judaism. |
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Death in rabbinical literature.
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Death in rabbinical literature. |
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Jewish mourning customs -- History.
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Jewish mourning customs. |
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History. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kraemer, David Charles. Meanings of death in Rabbinic Judaism. London ; New York : Routledge, 2000 0415211832 (DLC) 99020720 (OCoLC)40964791 |
| ISBN |
0203171020 (electronic book) |
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9780203171028 (electronic book) |
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0203010108 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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9780203010105 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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0415211832 |
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9780415211833 |
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9780415211840 (paperback) |
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0415211840 (paperback) |
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0415211840 (Paper) |
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