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From: David Riceman _driceman at att.net_ (mailto:driceman at att.net) 


>>Akiva Blum wrote:
> ....The Tiferes Yisroel in pesachim  says that people would bury their dead 
in a temporary grave, and after >the  meat had rotted, the bones would be 
reinterned in their ancestral cemetery. Can  anyone point to a >source, and 
perhaps also an explanation for this  practice?
>   



>>See Martin Goodman, "Rome and Jerusalem", p. 248.  It's well  documented 
archaeologically and in literature.  Goodman says "there is  no certain 
explanation." <<

David  Riceman




>>>>>
I thought they did not "bury their dead in a grave" but kept the bones in  
some kind of container until the flesh decayed, after which they buried the  
bones.  The pile of bones would take up much less space than a whole body,  and 
in a city where space for burial was scarce (old Y-m, 2000 years ago) and it  
was also hard to dig a grave in rocky ground, there would be a big  advantage 
to having graves as small as possible.  They also used to bury  the bones of 
several people in the same small plot.  I may be wrong about  all this, it's 
just dim memories and impressions.


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