Language:
English
Year of publication:
2019
Titel der Quelle:
Journal for the Study of the Old Testament
Angaben zur Quelle:
43,4 (2019) 509-524
Keywords:
Bible Comparative studies
;
Dead Biblical teaching
;
Jewish law Biblical teaching
;
Punishment Biblical teaching
;
Redemption Biblical teaching
;
Blood Biblical teaching
;
Mesopotamia Religion
Abstract:
Scholarly reasons for the existence of the גאל הדם institution tend to pool around the interests of three parties: the family or clan of the dead person, the Israelite people "en masse", and the land those people possess. There is, however, another party with an interest in the death of the murderer, and that is the murdered person. To suggest that the dead have an interest in the execution of their killer is to argue for a belief in posthumous interests, a position here defended with reference to Israelite interment practice, and to Mesopotamian and Israelite beliefs about the dead and the violently dead.
DOI:
10.1177/0309089217720621
URL:
אתר את הפרסום בקטלוג המאוחד של ספריות ישראל
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