Meanings of Death in Rabbinic Judaism
Publisher: Routledge
Published: November 12, 1999
Language: eng
Number of pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9780415211840
First sentence: Death is an universal human experience, an unavoidable fact of every life.
Description: This book is the first study of death and mourning practices of the founders of post biblical Judaism. The author examines rabbinic Judaism's earliest canonical texts, and he outlines the rituals described in these texts.