Israel's Beneficent Dead: Ancestor Cult and Necromancy in Ancient Israelite Religion and Tradition

Abstract

Preface Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1. Mortuary Rites: A Descriptive Glossary Chapter 2. The Extra-biblical Textual Evidence from Syria-Palestine: The Late Third to Early Second Millennia B.C.E. 2.1 The Evidence from Ebla 2.2 The Evidence from Mari Chapter 3. The Extra-biblical Textual Evidence from Syria-Palestine: The Mid to Late Second Millennium B.C.E. 3.1 The Evidence from Ugarit 3.2 The Evidence from Nuzi and Emar Chapter 4. The Textual Evidence from the Hebrew Bible 4.1 The Extra-biblical Textual Evidence from Syria-Palestine: The Early to Mid First Millennium B.C.E. 4.2 The 'Canaanite' Origins of Israel's Belief in the Beneficent Dead 4.3 The Pre-exilic Prophetic Literature 4.4 The Deuteronomic Legal Texts 4.5 The Deuteronomistic History 4.6 Exilic and Post-exilic Prophetic Texts 4.7 The Psalms 4.8 Excursus: The Israelite Rephaim Conclusion Bibliography Indexes Author Subject Extra-Biblical Texts Biblical Texts

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