Death, Burial, and Afterlife in the Biblical World: How the Israelites and Their Neighbors Treated the Dead by Hallote, Rachel S.

Death, Burial, and Afterlife in the Biblical World: How the Israelites and Their Neighbors Treated the Dead (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781566634014)

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Death, Burial, and Afterlife in the Biblical World: How the Israelites and Their Neighbors Treated the Dead by Hallote, Rachel S.

Death, Burial, and Afterlife in the Biblical World: How the Israelites and Their Neighbors Treated the Dead

$26.50
Death, Burial, and Afterlife in the Biblical World: How the Israelites and Their Neighbors Treated the Dead by Hallote, Rachel S.

Death, Burial, and Afterlife in the Biblical World: How the Israelites and Their Neighbors Treated the Dead

$26.50
Format: Hardcover
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How the Israelites and their neighbors treated the dead, and why their practices challenged the young religion. "A sparkling synthesis of the behaviors, attitudes, and theologies relating to death from the earliest settlement of the land of Israel to this day....A wonderful read."-Baruch Halpern.

Author: Rachel S. Hallote
ISBN-10: 1566634016
ISBN-13: 9781566634014
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Language: English
Published: 10/16/2001
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 8.68h x 5.98w x 0.94d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2002 pg. 16
By Rachel S. Hallote
By Rachel S. Hallote
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Rachel Hallote, who directs and teaches at the Jewish Studies Program at Purchase College (SUNY), has studied and written on the archaeology of death for more than ten years. She holds a doctorate in Near Eastern archaeology from the University of Chicago and is now a working archaeologist who spends her summers excavating in Israel.

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