TY  - GEN
N2  - In the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, a good death meant burial inside the family tomb, where one would join one's ancestors in death. This was the afterlife in biblical literature; it was a postmortem ideal that did not involve individual judgment or heaven and hell - instead it was collective. In Hebrew scriptures, a postmortem existence was rooted in mortuary practices and conceptualized through the embodiment of the dead. But this idea of the afterlife was not hopeless or fatalistic, consigned to the dreariness of the tomb. The dead were cherished and remembered, their bones were cared for, and their names lived on as ancestors. This volume examines the concept of the afterlife in the Hebrew Bible by studying the treatment of the dead, as revealed both in biblical literature and in the material remains of the southern Levant.
AB  - In the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, a good death meant burial inside the family tomb, where one would join one's ancestors in death. This was the afterlife in biblical literature; it was a postmortem ideal that did not involve individual judgment or heaven and hell - instead it was collective. In Hebrew scriptures, a postmortem existence was rooted in mortuary practices and conceptualized through the embodiment of the dead. But this idea of the afterlife was not hopeless or fatalistic, consigned to the dreariness of the tomb. The dead were cherished and remembered, their bones were cared for, and their names lived on as ancestors. This volume examines the concept of the afterlife in the Hebrew Bible by studying the treatment of the dead, as revealed both in biblical literature and in the material remains of the southern Levant.
T1  - A history of death in the Hebrew Bible /
AU  - Suriano, Matthew J.,
CN  - Oxford Scholarship Online
CN  - BS1199.D34
ID  - 822836
KW  - Death in the Bible.
KW  - Future life
KW  - Burial.
KW  - Iron age
SN  - 9780190844769
TI  - A history of death in the Hebrew Bible /
LK  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190844738.001.0001
UR  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190844738.001.0001
ER  -