The unremembered dead : the non-burial motif in the Hebrew Bible

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Autor principal: Mansen, F. Dorie.
Formato: Livre
Idioma: Anglais
Publicado em: Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press. C 2018.
coleção: Perspectives on Hebrew scriptures and its contexts 26
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Autres localisations: Voir dans le Sudoc
Resumo: "The Unremembered Dead examines the motif of non-burial in the Hebrew Bible in its ancient Near Eastern contexts. Mansen proposes a new typology for analyzing references to post-mortem abuse and demonstrates the motif's variability of form and range of functions in both biblical and extra-biblical texts. Investigating the social and literary contexts in which the non-burial motif appears, Mansen establishes how gruesome threats functioned as deadly literary weapons within the biblical authors' ideologically-shaped rhetorical arsenal"--