Abstract
ODERN scholarship has, for the most part, taken one of two approaches in the investigation of the biblical understanding of the nature and meaning of death. Following the blueprint mapped out by Schwally in his epochal work, Das Leben nach dem Tode,A there has been continued interest in the study of those customs and practices which surround death in biblical religion. Scholars such as D6letra2 and Lods3 have done excellent work in this area, seeking to explain, primarily through the insights of comparative anthropology, the meaning of the various mourning customs, the funerary rites, the cult surrounding death, etc. The other main area of investigation has been the study of the growth of the doctrine of the resurrection of the dead in the Old and New Testaments and in the intertestamental
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