The unremembered dead : the non-burial motif in the Hebrew Bible
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| Materyal Türü: | Livre |
| Dil: | Anglais |
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Piscataway, NJ :
Gorgias Press.
C 2018.
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| Seri Bilgileri: | Perspectives on Hebrew scriptures and its contexts
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| Autres localisations: | Voir dans le Sudoc |
| Özet: | "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"-- |