Meanings of Death in Rabbinic Judaism

Name: Meanings of Death in Rabbinic Judaism
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ISBN: 9780415211840

ISBN-10: 0415211840

ISBN-13: 9780415211840

Edition: 1999

Authors: David Kraemer

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This is a study of the death and mourning practices of the founders of Judaism - the Rabbis of late antiquity. The text examines the earliest canonical texts - the Misnah, the Tosefta, the Midrashim and the Talmud of the Land of Israel.

Book details

List price: $50.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 11/12/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 9.21" wide x 6.14" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English



List of illustrations


Preface and Acknowledgments


Glossary


List of abbreviations



The presence of death



Jewish death customs before the rabbis



Early rabbinic death-practices: The evidence of the Mishnah



Early expansions and commentaries: The testimony of the Tosefta and Tannaitic Midrashim



Jewish death-practices in reality: The catacombs at Beth Shearim



Jewish death-practices in early Byzantine Palestine: The Yerushalmi and Aggadic Midrashim



Law as commentary: The Bavli on death and burial



The Bavli interprets the mourner



Post-Talmudic developments in Jewish death-practice



A personal theological postscript


Notes


References


Index