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[stig.norin AT teol.uu.se (Stig Norin)]

According to what I think I have found, tearing of clothes has someting to
do with a person beeing in a situation av total despair or a situation when
a person is total perplexed and cannot find any way out. Later the custom
became someting done when someone was a witness to blasphemy (Like in the
New Test.) but that seems not to be the situation when people tear their
clothes in the Hebrew Bible.


Stig N


it and At 13.50 01-01-25, Dan Wagner wrote:
>Does anyone know of ANE data on the origin of tearing of clothes (e.g. in
>lament, repentance, etc.)? It is found in Biblical data from Reuben (Gen.
>37:29) and Jacob (Gen. 37:34) to Ezra (9:3) and Mordecai (Est. 4:1). I'm
>curious about the origin of the custom. Seems to indicate outwardly/publicly
>the inward abandonment of concern for anything except the anxiety/crisis of
>the moment.
>
>Ref. list: Gen. 37:29, Gen. 37:34, Gen. 44:13, Num. 14:6, Jos. 7:6, Jdg.
>11:35, 2 Sam. 1:11, 2 Sam. 13:19, 2 Sam. 13:31, 1 Ki. 21:27, 2 Ki. 2:12, 2
>Ki. 5:7, 2 Ki. 6:30, 2 Ki. 11:14, 2 Ki. 19:1, 2 Ki. 22:11, 2 Chr. 23:13, 2
>Chr. 34:19, 2 Chr. 34:27, Ezr. 9:3, Est. 4:1, Isa. 37:1
>
>Thanks,
>Dan Wagner
>
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