Les vivants et leurs morts

Actes du colloque organisé par le Collège de France, Paris, les 14-15 avril 2010. Éditées par Jean-Marie Durand, Thomas Römer et Jürg Hutzli.

In April 2010, scholars of Assyriology and Biblical Studies at the Collège de France, Paris, gathered for a colloquium to discuss the archaeological and textual evidence for the ways in which ancient Near Eastern societies dealt with their dead. How did these societies view the “afterlife”, and what kind of relationship did they have with those who lived before them? For the cuneiform documentation, this raises, for example, the question of how the living commemorated their deceased, particularly by means of the kispum funerary rite whose specific practice and meaning remain to be explored.With 17 contributions by Maria Giovanna Biga, Dominique Charpin, Jean-Marie Durand et al. IX,287 Seiten mit 11 Abb. und Karten, gebunden (Orbis biblicus et orientalis; Vol. 257/Academic Press Fribourg/Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2012)