Biblical Mourning: Ritual and Social Dimensions

ISBN-13: 9780199264865 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 184 str.

Saul M. Olyan

Opis

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.

Recenzje

Olyan presents us with a clear and convincing phenomenology of biblical mourning rites. The book is lucidly written and organized, the evidence is judiciously interpreted, and the argument is easily followed. It is a joy to read.

O autorze

Saul M. Olyan is Professor of Judaic Studies and Religious Studies at Brown University