Biblical Mourning: Ritual and Social Dimensions
Book Details
Author(s)
Saul M. Olyan
Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN / ASIN
0199264864
ISBN-13
9780199264865
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#2,869,641
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Description
A comprehensive analysis of the ritual dimensions of biblical mourning rites, this book also seeks to illuminate mourning's social dimensions through engagement with anthropological discussion of mourning, from Hertz and van Gennep to contemporaries such as Metcalf and Huntington and Bloch and Parry.
