Land of Our Fathers: The Roles of Ancestor Veneration in Biblical Land Claims

by Francesca Stavrakopoulou

Book Overview

The biblical motif of a land divinely-promised and given to Abraham and his descendants is argued to be an ideological reflex of post-monarchic, territorial disputes between competing socio-religious groups. The important biblical motif of a Promised Land is founded upon the ancient Near Eastern concept of ancestral land: hereditary space upon which families lived, worked, died and were buried. An essential element of concept of ancestral land...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0567411885
• ISBN13: 9780567411884
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"