“This One Fulfilled What Is Written in That One”:

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" “This One Fulfilled What Is Written in That One”: "
Adiel Kadari

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1074974
Doc. No	:	LA118603
Call No	:	‭10.1163/157006310X490239‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Adiel Kadari
Title & Author	:	“This One Fulfilled What Is Written in That One”: [Article] : On an Early Burial Practice in Its Literary and Artistic Contexts\ Adiel Kadari
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Journal for the Study of Judaism
Date	:	2010
Volume/ Issue Number	:	41/2
Page No	:	191–213
Abstract	:	This article deals with a surprising practice of placing a Torah scroll on a funeral bier and crying out: “This one fulfilled what is written in that one.” An allusion to this custom already appears in a Tannaitic haggadah that tells about the bringing of Joseph’s bones to burial in the Land of Israel. This practice seems to run counter to the tendency to distance the corpse from the realm of the sacred. I seek to examine it through literary motifs from eulogies and depictions of the death of various individuals, and through artistic findings from the realm of funerary art. This examination leads to conclusions about the significance of the presence of the Torah scroll in the context of funerals and burial rituals. This article deals with a surprising practice of placing a Torah scroll on a funeral bier and crying out: “This one fulfilled what is written in that one.” An allusion to this custom already appears in a Tannaitic haggadah that tells about the bringing of Joseph’s bones to burial in the Land of Israel. This practice seems to run counter to the tendency to distance the corpse from the realm of the sacred. I seek to examine it through literary motifs from eulogies and depictions of the death of various individuals, and through artistic findings from the realm of funerary art. This examination leads to conclusions about the significance of the presence of the Torah scroll in the context of funerals and burial rituals.
Descriptor	:	acclamation
Descriptor	:	burial rituals
Descriptor	:	death
Descriptor	:	funerary art
Descriptor	:	Torah scroll
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/157006310X490239‬