Cursing Beyond the Grave: Imprecations and Jewish Funerary Culture in Antiquity
Abstract: This article discusses curses found in ancient and late antique Jewish funerary inscriptions. It begins with a typology of imprecatory texts based on a survey of funerary epigraphy, both Jewish and non-Jewish. It proceeds with an analysis of explicit curse formulae found in a Jewish funerary context: on ossuaries, on the walls of burial caves, or on architectural elements of graves. The article discusses several aspects of these curses, placing them in a physical, religious, and psychological context. https://er.ceres.rub.de/index.php/ER/article/view/11576
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Cursing Beyond the Grave: Imprecations and Jewish Funerary Culture in Antiquity ; volume:13 ; number:6 ; year:2022
Entangled Religions ; 13, Heft 6 (2022)
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Saar, Ortal-Paz
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10.46586/er.13.2024.11576
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urn:nbn:de:101:1-2407241854128.504217093447
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Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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