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Tables of Contents for Shades of Sheol
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Abbreviations
11
4
Introduction
15
8
Part A. Death
Death in the Old Testament
23
24
Descriptions of death
23
16
Death and diversity
23
2
Death as the end of life
25
Death as a friend
2
26
Death as an enemy
28
4
Death as separation
32
1
Death as reunion?
33
2
Death by sacrifice
35
3
Death by suicide
38
1
Reflections on death
39
7
Death and life
39
1
Death and creation
40
1
Death as natural
41
1
Death as punishment
42
1
Death as uncleanness
43
2
Death and the future
45
1
Summary
46
1
Death in Ancient Israel
47
22
Reactions of the living
47
4
Mourning
47
1
Fasting and feasting
48
2
Laments and funerals
50
1
Burial of the dead
51
13
General burial
51
3
Royal burial
54
1
Non-burial
55
2
Place of burial
57
4
Secondary burial
61
1
Food and burial
62
2
Summary
64
5
Part B. The Underworld
The Unwelcome Underworld
69
17
Sheol as a place
70
9
Occurrence of the term
70
3
Meaning of the word
73
2
Description of the place
75
2
Origin of the name
77
2
Sheol as a destiny
79
4
Synonyms
83
2
Summary
85
1
The Threatening Underworld
86
12
The psalmists and Sheol
86
3
Figurative language
86
2
Selective language
88
1
The psalmists in Sheol?
89
8
Pedersen: a present experience
89
1
Barth: a powerful experience
90
3
Others: an ambiguous experience
93
2
Psalm 88: an imminent experience
95
2
Summary
97
1
The Pervasive Underworld?
98
29
Is `earth' the underworld?
99
15
The physical world
101
3
The inhabited world
104
2
The ground
106
2
The swallowing earth
108
1
The earth below
109
1
The ground or the underworld
109
3
The land of the shades? (Is. 26:19)
112
2
Summary
114
1
Is water the underworld?
114
13
Water under the world
115
1
Water as the underworld?
116
2
Water and the underworld
118
5
Summary
123
4
Part C. The Dead
Naming the Dead
127
23
`Shades'
128
14
Dead Rephaim
128
2
Ethnic Rephaim
130
2
Philistine Rephaim?
132
2
Ugaritic rpum
134
6
Other Semitic rp'm
140
1
Summary
141
1
`Gods'
142
8
Clear Old Testament references
144
3
Suggested Old Testament references
147
2
Summary
149
1
Consulting the Dead
150
17
Necromancy in Israel
150
4
Necromancy at Endor
154
4
Necromancy in other texts?
158
3
Necromantic terms
161
5
'ob as a divination device?
161
1
'ob as an ancestor spirit?
162
2
'ob and ilib?
164
2
Summary
166
1
Honouring the Dead
167
32
The ancestor cult and Old Testament texts
169
12
Deuteronomy 26
169
1
1 Samuel 28
170
1
Psalm 16
171
2
Psalm 49
173
1
Isaiah 28
173
2
Isaiah 57
175
3
Ezekiel 43
178
3
The ancestor cult and the marzeah
181
6
The ancient Near Eastern marzeah
181
3
Clear Old Testament references
184
1
Suggested Old Testament references
185
2
The ancestor cult and other concepts
187
6
Teraphim
187
1
Pillars
188
2
Kinship names
190
1
Family life
190
2
Sacrifice and cult
192
1
Burial and bones
193
1
Summary
193
6
Part D. The Afterlife
Communion Beyond Death
199
19
Enoch and Elijah
199
1
Psalms
200
7
Psalm 16
201
1
Psalm 49
202
2
Psalm 73
204
2
Other psalms
206
1
Proverbs
207
2
Job 19
209
5
Heavenly books
214
2
Summary
216
2
Resurrection From Death
218
23
Resurrection in Israelite literature
218
12
Divine potential (Deut. 32; I Sam. 2)
218
2
Occasional resuscitation (Elijah and Elisha)
220
1
National restoration (Hos. 6; Ezek. 37)
221
3
Individual resurrection (Is. 26; Dan. 12)
224
3
Other Old Testament texts
227
2
Other Jewish writings
229
1
Resurrection in the ancient Near East
230
7
Egypt
230
2
Mesopotamia
232
1
Ugarit
233
1
Persia
234
2
Greece
236
1
Summary and conclusion
237
4
Bibliography
241
32
Author Index
273
7
Texts Index
280