Death, Disinheritance, and Job's Kinsman-Redeemer
[...] Job's image of his fate is tied to his kinsman-redeemer and is consonant with a ritual process that was typically centered at the family tomb. According to this ideology of death, the fate of the individual was directly related to concepts of collective identity tied to kinship and patrim...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Journal of Biblical literature 2010-03, Vol.129 (1), p.49-66 |
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Zusammenfassung: | [...] Job's image of his fate is tied to his kinsman-redeemer and is consonant with a ritual process that was typically centered at the family tomb. According to this ideology of death, the fate of the individual was directly related to concepts of collective identity tied to kinship and patrimony. [...] the defunct individual's identity was preserved within a larger framework of ancestry. |
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ISSN: | 0021-9231 1934-3876 |
DOI: | 10.2307/27821004 |