Biblical Mourning: Ritual and Social Dimensions

by Saul M Olyan

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A comprehensive analysis of the ritual dimensions of biblical mourning rites, this book also seeks to illuminate mourning's social dimensions through engagement with anthropological discussion of mourning, from Hertz and van Gennep to contemporaries such as Metcalf and Huntington and Bloch and Parry.
  • ISBN10 1423768086
  • ISBN13 9781423768081
  • Publish Date December 2004 (first published 8 January 2004)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Oxford University Press
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 185
  • Language English