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Approaching the dead : studies on mortuary ritual in the ancient world / edited by Anne Katrine de Hemmer Gudme & Kirsi Valkama.
Penn Museum Library GT3170 .A778 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Suomen Eksegeettisen Seuran julkaisuja ; 118.
- Publications of the Finnish Exegetical Society ; 118
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient.
- Genre:
- Informational works.
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- 179 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Helsinki : Finnish Exegetical Society, 2020.
- Contents:
- Foreword / Risto Uro
- Introduction / Anne Katrine de Hemmer Gudme, Kirsi Valkama
- The cult of the royal dead at Ugarir : poetics, politics and praxis / Joanna Töyräänvuori
- Graves, missing graves, ideology and mortuary rituals : a mixed salad in the archeaological bowl / Raz Kletter
- The function of inscriptions in Iron Age II Judean burial caves / Kirsi Valkama
- Possible rituals involving the dead reflected in Isaiah 65:3-5, 66:3, 17 / Diana Edelman
- Visiting the dead : traces of mortuary ritual practices in Roman Palestine / Anne Katrine de Hemmer Gudme
- Death and display : the visual analysis of mortuary practices / Fredrik Ekengren.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9789519217734
- 9519217738
- OCLC:
- 1224480267
- Publisher Number:
- 9789519217734
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