Ashkenazic Funeral: Carrying the Body to the Grave

Johann Christoph Georg Bodenschatz

1748

Print image in three panels: the top panel shows groups of men and women in courtyard outside of building, the bottom left panel shows people around body in coffin, and the bottom right panel shows people outside building.
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Johann Christoph Georg Bodenschatz

1717–1797

German Protestant theologian Johann Christoph Georg Bodenschatz was born in Hof, Bavaria. He studied oriental languages at the University of Jena and developed a scholarly interest in Jewish custom and ritual. He published his four-volume Kirchliche Verfassung der heutigen Juden, sonderlich derer in Deutschland (Religious Constitution of Today’s Jews, Especially Those in Germany) in 1748/49. Bodenschatz is also reported to have made elaborate models of Noah’s ark and the Tabernacle (Heb., mishkan), the portable sanctuary built by Moses as a place of worship for the Israelites during their wanderings in the desert.

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