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Israel's Beneficent Dead: Ancestor Cult and Necromancy in Ancient Israelite Religion and Tradition (Forschungen zum Alten Testament 11)

Schmidt's minimalist case arguing that ancestor commemoration existed but a cult of beneficent ancestral intercessors and autochthonous necromancy did not.

Author: Brian Schmidt
Type: Book
Written: 1994
Edition: 1994
Publisher: J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck) [Mohr Siebeck], Tübingen
Language: English
Tradition: Jewish Mysticism
Identifiers: ISBN3-16-146221-1 / 978-3-16-146221-4

Where to find it

Google Books — Israel's Beneficent Dead, Brian B. Schmidt
SAGE — book-review citation (Society for Old Testament Study Book List)