Prayers for This Life and the Next: The Polysemy of Mortuary Psalms in their Ancient Near Eastern Context

Long before Israel and Judah emerged, and throughout the period of their existence, kings in the Levant imagined an afterlife in which they would live forever,rising at regular intervals from peaceful repose to dine and drink in the presence of their divine lords. In time, the authors of the Hebrew...

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1. VerfasserIn: Hays, Christopher B. 1973- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Universitätsbibliothek 2021
In: Advances in ancient Biblical and Near Eastern research
Jahr: 2021, Band: 1, Heft: 3, Seiten: 47-80
weitere Schlagwörter:B Hebrew Bible
B Psalm 15
B Psalms
B Afterlife
B Polysemy
B Judah
B Mortuary Practices
B Israel
B Davidic kings
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Zusammenfassung:Long before Israel and Judah emerged, and throughout the period of their existence, kings in the Levant imagined an afterlife in which they would live forever,rising at regular intervals from peaceful repose to dine and drink in the presence of their divine lords. In time, the authors of the Hebrew Bible rejectedthose beliefs, but the Bible we read today reflects both the rejection and the earlier religious ideas that were finally excluded. This paper argues that it is possible toexcavate from the Psalter fragments of a liturgy for the royal mortuary cult of the Davidic kings.
ISSN:2748-6419
Enthält:Enthalten in: Advances in ancient Biblical and Near Eastern research
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.35068/aabner.v1i3.831