Cults of the dead in ancient Israel and Ugarit
| 1. Verfasser: |
Lewis, Theodore J.
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Atlanta, Georgia :
Scholars Press,
1989.
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| Umfang/Format: |
XV, 230 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Harvard Semitic monographs ;
no. 39 |
| Schlagworte: | |
| iDAI.gazetteer: |
Syria Israel / Jordanien |
| Inhalte/Bestandteile: | 2 Datensätze |
Inhaltsangabe:
- I. Introduction.
- II. Ugaritic Texts
- A. The Ugaritic funerary text
- B. The Ugaritic King List
- C. The duties of an ideal son
- D. The Dagan Stelae
- E. The Marzeah: a death-cult banquet?
- F. Conclusion.
- III. Biblical texts
- A. Deuteronomistic literature
- 1. Deuteronomistic legal material
- a. Deuteronomy 14:1
- b. Deuteronomy 18:9ff
- c. Deuteronomy 26:14
- 2. Deuteronomistic narrative material
- a. 1 Samuel 28:3-25 (Saul at Endor)
- b. 2 Samuel 12:15-24 (David's ritual descent)
- c. 2 Samuel 18:18 (Absalom's monument)
- d. 2 Kings 9:34-37 (Jezebel's burial)
- e. 2 Kings 13:20-21 (Elisha's bones)
- f. 2 Kings 21:6 (Manasseh's evil)
- g. 2 Kings 23:24 (Josiah's reform)
- 3. Conclusion
- B. Prophetic Material
- 1. Isaiah 8:19-20a
- 2. Isaiah 19:3
- 3. Isaiah 28:15,18
- 4. Isaiah 29:4
- 5. Jeremiah 16:5ff
- 6. Ezekiel 43:7-9
- a. Excursus on Albright's Bamot Hypothesis
- 7. Isaiah 45:18-19
- 8. Isaiah 56:9-57:13
- 9. Isaiah 65:4
- C. The holiness code and other priestly material
- 1. Leviticus 19:26b-32
- 2. Leviticus 20:6, 27
- 3. Other priestly material
- D. Psalms
- 1. Psalms 16
- 2. Psalms 106:28
- E. Wisdom literature
- 1. Job 14:21
- 2. Qoheleth 9:4-6, 10.
- IV. Conclusion.
