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size=2>From: David Riceman <A
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size=2>>>Akiva Blum wrote:<BR>> ....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?<BR>> <BR></FONT></DIV>
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size=2>>>See Martin Goodman, "Rome and Jerusalem", p. 248. It's well
documented <BR>archaeologically and in literature. Goodman says "there is
no certain <BR>explanation." <<<BR><BR>David
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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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