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Israel's Beneficent Dead

Ancestor Cult and Necromancy in Ancient Israelite Religion and Tradition

by Brian B. Schmidt

A detailed study of the evidence for ancestor veneration and necromancy in ancient Israel, read against Ugaritic and Mesopotamian parallels. Schmidt argues that many practices once taken as ancient Israelite were shaped by later polemic, and he offers close readings of the biblical vocabulary, including the terms used of the woman of En-dor.

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