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Studies In The Ancient Israelite Cult Of Dead Kin, Joshua Jacobs
Studies In The Ancient Israelite Cult Of Dead Kin, Joshua Jacobs
World Languages, Literatures and Cultures Undergraduate Honors Theses
In 1986, Klaas Spronk published a monograph titled, Beatific Afterlife in Ancient Israel and in the Ancient Near East. Although many have criticized Spronk’s central thesis, his study began a new era in biblical scholarship on death and the afterlife in ancient Israel. More specifically, it sparked renewed interest in the study of the relationship between the living and the dead. Just three years after Spronk’s work, Theodore J. Lewis published his own study, Cults of the Dead in Ancient Israel and Ugarit (1989). Lewis affirmed and developed evidence for one of the foundational aspects of Spronk’s book: in …