Biblical Mourning: Ritual and Social Dimensions

by Saul M. Olyan

A comprehensive analysis of the ritual dimensions of biblical mourning rites, this book also seeks to illuminate mourning's social dimensions through engagement with anthropological discussion of mourning, from Hertz and van Gennep to contemporaries such as Metcalf and Huntington and Bloch and Parry.

184 pages, Hardcover

First published March 25, 2004