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).

The consistently high quality of analysis across the entire volume is to be commended. This is a helpful contribution to the burgeoning literature on embodiment in biblical studies.

• List of FiguresNotes on ContributorsEditor's NoteList of Abbreviations1. Introduction: The Materiality of Life and the Sociality of Death - Francesca Stavrakopoulou, University of Exeter, UKPart One: Praxis and Materiality2. Blood and Hair: Body Management and Practice - Susan Niditch, Amherst College, USA2. Wherever the Corpse is, There the Vultures will Gather - Matthew J. Suriano, University of Maryland, USA4. 'Know Well the Faces of Your Sheep': Animal Bodies and Human Bodies - Rebekah Welton, University Exeter, UKPart Two: Value, Status and Power5. Birthing New Life: Israelite and Mesopotamian Values and Visions of the Pre-born Child - Shawn W. Flynn, University of Alberta, Canada6. Persons with Disabilities, Unprotected Parties and Israelite Household Structures - Jeremy Schipper, Temple University, USA7. Modifying Manly Bodies: Mourning and Masculinities in Ezra 9-10 - Elisabeth Cook, Latin American Biblical University, Costa Rica8. The Wisdom of Ageing - Hugh Pyper, University of Sheffield, UKPart Three: Extended Sociality9. Immortality and the Rise of Resurrection - Nicolas Wyatt, University of Edinburgh, UK10. Forming Divine Bodies in the Hebrew Bible - Daniel O. McClellan, University of Exeter, UKBibliographyIndex