Necromancy and Cleromancy in 1 and 2 Samuel

Scholarship in recent decades has enriched one's understanding of the worship of ancestors and related rituals surrounding death in Israel's popular religion. However, the Bible's only uncontested example of nemocracy contains several unexplained features and for obvious reasons, cont...

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Published in:The Catholic Biblical quarterly 2004-04, Vol.66 (2), p.199-213
Main Author: ARNOLD, BILL T.
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Bible
Cleromancy
Death & dying
Divination
Divinity
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I Samual
Jewish rituals
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Written narratives
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Jewish rituals
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