Life and Death

Francesca Stavrakopoulou is Professor of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Religion at the University of Exeter, UK, and the presenter of the BBC2 television miniseries 'The Bible's Buried Secrets'. She has authored and edited a number of books on ancient Israelite and Judahite religion, including King Manasseh and Child Sacrifice (2004), Land of Our Fathers (2010), Religious Diversity in Ancient Israel and Judah (2010), and God: An Anatomy (2021).

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1. Introduction: The Materiality of Life and the Sociality of Death - Francesca Stavrakopoulou, University of Exeter, UK
Part One: Praxis and Materiality
2. Blood and Hair: Body Management and Practice - Susan Niditch, Amherst College, USA
2. Wherever the Corpse is, There the Vultures will Gather - Matthew J. Suriano, University of Maryland, USA
4. 'Know Well the Faces of Your Sheep': Animal Bodies and Human Bodies - Rebekah Welton, University Exeter, UK
Part Two: Value, Status and Power
5. Birthing New Life: Israelite and Mesopotamian Values and Visions of the Pre-born Child - Shawn W. Flynn, University of Alberta, Canada
6. Persons with Disabilities, Unprotected Parties and Israelite Household Structures - Jeremy Schipper, Temple University, USA
7. Modifying Manly Bodies: Mourning and Masculinities in Ezra 9-10 - Elisabeth Cook, Latin American Biblical University, Costa Rica
8. The Wisdom of Ageing - Hugh Pyper, University of Sheffield, UK
Part Three: Extended Sociality
9. Immortality and the Rise of Resurrection - Nicolas Wyatt, University of Edinburgh, UK
10. Forming Divine Bodies in the Hebrew Bible - Daniel O. McClellan, University of Exeter, UK
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