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Land of Our Fathers: The Roles Of Ancestor Veneration In Biblical Land Claims - Couverture souple

Stavrakopoulou, Francesca

 
9780567411884: Land of Our Fathers: The Roles Of Ancestor Veneration In Biblical Land Claims
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0567411885 ISBN 13 : 9780567411884
Editeur : T & T Clark International, 2012

Synopsis

The biblical motif of a land divinely-promised and given to Abraham and his descendants is argued to be an ideological reflex of post-monarchic, territorial disputes between competing socio-religious groups. The important biblical motif of a Promised Land is founded upon the ancient Near Eastern concept of ancestral land: hereditary space upon which families lived, worked, died and were buried. An essential element of concept of ancestral land was the belief in the post-mortem existence of the ancestors, who were venerated with grave offerings, mortuary feasts, bone rituals and standing stones.

The Hebrew Bible is littered with stories concerning these practices and beliefs, yet the specific correlation of ancestor veneration and certain biblical land claims has gone unrecognized. The book remedies this in presenting evidence for the vital and persistent impact of ancestor veneration upon land claims. It proposes that ancestor veneration, which formed a common ground in the experiences of various socio-religious groups in ancient Israel, became in the Hebrew Bible an ideological battlefield upon which claims to the land were won and lost.

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À propos de l'auteur

Francesca Stavrakopoulou is Senior Lecturer in Hebrew Bible at the University of Exeter, UK. Her research focuses on ancient Israelite religion, Judahite kingship, and history and ideology in the Hebrew Bible. She is the author of King Manasseh and Child Sacrifice: Biblical Distortions of Historical Realities (De Gruyter, 2004).

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Éditeur
T & T Clark International
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0567411885
ISBN 13 
9780567411884
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
208
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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