Abstract
This article discusses curses found in ancient and late antique Jewish funerary inscriptions. It begins with a typology of imprecatory texts based on a survey of funerary epigraphy, both Jewish and non-Jewish. It proceeds with an analysis of explicit curse formulae found in a Jewish funerary context: on ossuaries, on the walls of burial caves, or on architectural elements of graves. The article discusses several aspects of these curses, placing them in a physical, religious, and psychological context.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1-24 |
| Number of pages | 24 |
| Journal | Entangled Religions |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2024 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2024 Center for Religious Studies. All rights reserved.
Funding
The author wishes to thank Alexandra Cuffel and Eduard Iricinschi, who organized the conference \u201CInvoking a Strange God: Rituals of Power and Religious Contacts in the Late Antique Mediterranean World and Medieval Europe,\u201D which took place at the Center for Religious Studies (CERES) of Ruhr-Universit\u00E4t Bochum, Germany, on 7-8 November 2019. Many thanks also go to Omri Abadi, Gideon Bohak, and the two anonymous reviewers of this journal for their helpful suggestions.
| Funders |
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| Alexandra Cuffel and Eduard Iricinschi |
| Late Antique Mediterranean World and Medieval Europe |
Keywords
- Funerary epigraphy
- Jewish curses
- Jewish epitaphs
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