The Unremembered Dead (Perspectives On Hebrew Scriptures And Its Contexts)

The Unremembered Dead examines the motif of non-burial in the Hebrew Bible in its ancient Near Eastern contexts. Mansen proposes a new typology for analyzing references to post-mortem abuse and demonstrates the motif's variability of form and range of functions in both biblical and extra-biblical texts. Investigating the social and literary contexts in which the non-burial motif appears, Mansen establishes how gruesome threats functioned as deadly literary weapons within the biblical authors' ideologically-shaped rhetorical arsenal.

• | Author: F. Dorie Mansen
• | Publisher: Gorgias Press
• | Publication Date: May 10, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 352 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Religion
• | ISBN-10: 1463206968
• | ISBN-13: 9781463206963