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The meanings of death in Rabbinic Judaism / David Kraemer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kraemer, David Charles.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Death in rabbinical literature.
- Jewish mourning customs--History.
- Jewish mourning customs.
- Death--Religious aspects--Judaism.
- Death.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 170 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Routledge, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- 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
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-61653-8
- 1-280-46374-0
- 9780203171020
- 9786610463749
- 0-203-01010-8
- 0-203-17102-0
- 9780203010105
- OCLC:
- 56943568
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