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This is the first study of the death and mourning practices of the founders of Judaism - the Rabbis of late antiquity. The author outlines the rituals described in early texts and interprets them to uncover the beliefs which caused their foundation.
Death in rabbinical literature. --- Jewish mourning customs --- Death --- Mourning customs, Jewish --- Mourning (Jewish law) --- Mourning customs --- Rabbinical literature --- History. --- Religious aspects --- Judaism. --- Death in rabbinical literature --- Judaism --- History --- Death - Religious aspects - Judaism --- Jewish mourning customs - History
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Jewish customs and traditions about death, burial and mourning are numerous, diverse and intriguing. They are considered by many to have a respectable pedigree that goes back to the earliest rabbinic period. In order to examine the accurate historical origins of many of them, an international conference was held at Tel Aviv University in 2010 and experts dealt with many aspects of the topic. This volume includes most of the papers given then, as well as a few added later. What emerges are a wealth of fresh material and perspectives, as well as the realization that the high Middle Ages saw a set of exceptional innovations, some of which later became central to traditional Judaism while others were gradually abandoned. Were these innovations influenced by Christian practice? Which prayers and poems reflect these innovations? What do the sources tell us about changing attitudes to death and life-after death? Are tombstones an important guide to historical developments? Answers to these questions are to be found in this unusual, illuminating and readable collection of essays that have been well documented, carefully edited and well indexed.
Jewish mourning customs --- Death --- Jews --- Judaism --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Mourning customs, Jewish --- Mourning (Jewish law) --- Mourning customs --- Religious aspects --- Judaism. --- History --- Folklore. --- Liturgy. --- Religion. --- Jewish mourning customs - Europe --- Death - Religious aspects - Judaism --- Jews - Europe, Western - History - 70-1789 --- Judaism - History - Medieval and early modern period, 425-1789
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Reliance on essentialist or syncretistic models of cultural dynamics has limited past evaluations of ancient Jewish populations. This reexamination of evidence for Jews of North Africa offers an alternative approach. Drawing from methods developed in cultural studies and historical linguistics, this book replaces traditional categories used to examine evidence for early Jewish populations and demonstrates how direct comparison of Jewish material evidence with that of its neighbors allows for a reassessment of what the category of “Jewish” might have meant in different North African locations and periods and, by extension, elsewhere in the Mediterranean. The result is a transformed analysis of Jewish cultural identity that both emphasizes its indebtedness to larger regional contexts and allows for a more informed and complex understanding of Jewish cultural distinctiveness.
Jews --- Jewish sepulchral monuments --- Tombs --- Death --- Judaism --- Hellenistic Judaism --- Judaism, Hellenistic --- Religions --- Semites --- Sepulchral monuments --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- History --- Religious aspects --- Judaism. --- Religion --- Africa, North --- Barbary States --- Maghreb --- Maghrib --- North Africa --- Antiquities, Roman. --- Ethnic relations. --- Jews - Africa, North - History - To 1500. --- Jewish sepulchral monuments - Africa, North. --- Tombs - Africa, North. --- Death - Religious aspects - Judaism. --- Judaism - North Africa - History - To 1500. --- Judaism - History - Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D. --- Africa, North - Antiquities, Roman. --- Africa, North - Ethnic relations.
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