Table of Contents
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1. Mortuary Rites: A Descriptive Glossary
Chapter 2. The Extra-biblical Textual Evidence from Syria-Palestine: The Late Third to Early Second Millennia B.C.E.
2.1 The Evidence from Ebla
2.2 The Evidence from Mari
Chapter 3. The Extra-biblical Textual Evidence from Syria-Palestine: The Mid to Late Second Millennium B.C.E.
3.1 The Evidence from Ugarit
3.2 The Evidence from Nuzi and Emar
Chapter 4. The Textual Evidence from the Hebrew Bible
4.1 The Extra-biblical Textual Evidence from Syria-Palestine: The Early to Mid First Millennium B.C.E.
4.2 The ‘Canaanite’ Origins of Israel’s Belief in the Beneficent Dead
4.3 The Pre-exilic Prophetic Literature
4.4 The Deuteronomic Legal Texts
4.5 The Deuteronomistic History
4.6 Exilic and Post-exilic Prophetic Texts
4.7 The Psalms
4.8 Excursus: The Israelite Rephaim
Conclusion
Bibliography
Indexes
Author
Subject
Extra-Biblical Texts
Biblical Texts