English summary: This collection of essays contains the results of an international and interdisciplinary conference on this topic which took place in Leipzig in 2007. The articles provide new approaches to the reevaluation of the different concepts of death in the ancient world. The authors give new insights into grave and burial customs, the iconography of death, conceptions of the underworld, life after death and resurrection in the Old Testament and the cultures of the Ancient Near East. In doing so, they conclude that the ancient world from the 3rd millenium BC up to early Judaism did...
English summary: This collection of essays contains the results of an international and interdisciplinary conference on this topic which took place in...
Beginning with methods and sources, this Handbook looks at the Biblical text, archaeology, other texts, and iconography. It explores varying exegetical methods, including historical criticism, canonical approach, feminist, social scientific and liberation theology. Methods in archaeology, Hebrew epigraphic and iconography are also covered.
The second section is devoted to the history and religious history of Ancient Israel. Introductory matters, such as fundamental terminology and definitions, ethnic identity, ancestors and the dead, geography and time reckoning are explicated...
Beginning with methods and sources, this Handbook looks at the Biblical text, archaeology, other texts, and iconography. It explores varying exeget...
