The unremembered dead
Subtitle: the non-burial motif in the Hebrew Bible
By: F. Dorie Mansen
Series: Perspectives on Hebrew scriptures and its contexts -- 26; Perspectives on Hebrew scriptures and its contexts -- 26.
Publisher: Gorgias Press
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Piscataway, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9781463206963
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Criticism, interpretation; Death in the Bible; Burial; Bible
Description: "The Unremembered Dead examines the motif of non-burial in the Hebrew Bible in its ancient Near Eastern contexts. Mansen proposes a new typology for analyzing references to post-mortem abuse and demonstrates the motif's variability of form and range of functions in both biblical and extra-biblical texts. Investigating the social and literary contexts in which the non-burial motif appears, Mansen establishes how gruesome threats functioned as deadly literary weapons within the biblical authors' ideologically-shaped rhetorical arsenal"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.