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Judahite burial practices and beliefs about the dead
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ISBN: 128180360X 9786611803605 0567506231 9780567506238 1850753350 9781850753353 6611803602 Year: 1992 Publisher: Sheffield, England JSOT Press

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Abstract

The family tomb as a physical claim to the patrimony, the attributed powers of the dead and the prospect of post-mortem veneration made the cult of the dead an integral aspect of the Judahite and Israelite society. Over 850 burials from throughout the southern Levant are examined to illustrate the Judahite form of burial and its development. Vessels for foods and liquids were of paramount importance in the afterlife, followed by jewellery with its protective powers. The cult of the dead began to be an unacceptable feature of the Jerusalem Yahwistic cult in the late eighth to seventh century BC

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