It takes the average reader 6 hours and 40 minutes to read Israel's Beneficent Dead by Brian B. Schmidt
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Did the ancient Israelites perform rituals expressive of the belief in the supernaturalbeneficent power of the dead? Contrary to long held notions of primitive society and the euhemeristic origin of the divine, various factors indicate that the ancestor cult, that is, ancestor veneration or worship, was not observed in the Iron Age Levant. The Israelites did not adopt an ancient Canaanite ancestor cult that became the object of biblical scorn. Yet, a variety of mortuary rituals and cults were performed in Levantine society; mourning and funerary rites and longer-term rituals such as the care...
Israel's Beneficent Dead by Brian B. Schmidt is 400 pages long, and a total of 100,000 words.
This makes it 135% the length of the average book. It also has 122% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 6 minutes to read Israel's Beneficent Dead aloud.
Israel's Beneficent Dead is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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