TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kraemer,David Charles
TI  - The meanings of death in Rabbinic Judaism
SN  - 0203171020
AV  - BM635.4 .K73 2000eb
U1  - 296.4/45/09015 21
PY  - 2000///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Death
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Judaism
KW  - Death in rabbinical literature
KW  - Jewish mourning customs
KW  - History
KW  - Mort
KW  - Aspect religieux
KW  - Judaïsme
KW  - Mort dans la littérature rabbinique
KW  - Deuil
KW  - Coutumes juives
KW  - Histoire
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Rituals & Practice
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 160-163) and index; Preliminaries; CONTENTS; List of illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgments; Glossary; List of abbreviations; 1 The presence of death; 2 Jewish death customs before the rabbis; 3 Early rabbinic death-practices; 4 Early expansions and commentaries; 5 Jewish death-practices in reality; 6 Jewish death-practices in early Byzantine Palestine; 7 Law as commentary: The Bavli on death and burial; 8 The Bavli interprets the mourner; 9 Post-Talmudic developments in Jewish death-practice; 10 A personal theological postscript; Notes; References; Index
N2  - This is the first study of the death and mourning practices of the founders of Judaism - the Rabbis of late antiquity. The author outlines the rituals described in early texts and interprets them to uncover the beliefs which caused their foundation
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