"Leave the dead to bury their own dead"

  • Menahem Kister

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationStudies in Ancient Midrash
Pages43-56
Number of pages14
StatePublished - 2001

Bibliographical note

Rabbinic interpretations on the problem of Abraham leaving his father in Haran, and post-biblical interpretations on the figurative usages of "dead" in general.

RAMBI Publications

  • Rambi Publications
  • Philo -- of Alexandria
  • Abraham -- (Biblical patriarch) -- In rabbinical literature
  • Midrash rabbah -- Genesis -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
  • Death in post-biblical literature
  • Death in rabbinical literature

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