Cursing beyond the Grave: Imprecations and Jewish Funerary Culture

Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk › Academic

Description

This paper will discuss curses found in Jewish epitaphs (both ancient and late-antique) against the violation of graves, as well as refer to the cemetery as a place adapted to delivering imprecations against specific individuals.

Invited speaker at the academic workshop "Invoking a Strange God: Rituals of Power and Religious Contacts in the Late Antique Mediterranean World and Medieval Europe"
Period7 Nov 2019 → 8 Nov 2019
Held atRuhr University Bochum, Germany
Degree of RecognitionInternational

Keywords

  • Funerary culture
  • Funerary inscriptions
  • epigraphy
  • curses
  • Jewish history

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