Death, Burial, and Rebirth in the Religions of AntiquityPsychology Press, 1999 - 246 pàgines In Death, Burial and Rebirth in the Religions of Antiquity, Jon Davies charts the significance of death to the emerging religious cults in the pre-Christian and early Christian world. He analyses the varied burial rituals and examines the different notions of the afterlife. Among the areas covered are: |
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... Ancient Near East Burying the Jewish dead Roman religion and Roman funerals Christian burial The nature of martyrdom Jon Davies also draws on the sociological theory of Max Weber to present a comprehensive introduction to and overview ...
... Ancient Near East 23 1 Osiris and Isis : The life - theology of Ancient Egypt 27 2 Zoroaster , Ahura Mazda and Ahriman 40 3 Canaanites and Mesopotamians 47 4 Mere texts or living realities ? The possible influence of the older ...
... Ancient Near East , the Hellenistic world and the early Roman Empire . Their creation stories contain the prime explanation : their history , transacting with their creation stories , gives us a large part of the explanation of their ...
... Ancient Near East and the Roman Empire that constitute the major part of this book . While , clearly , there is more to religion ( Christian or otherwise ) than death , a reli- gion which ignored it or down - played it would be no ...
... Ancient Near East was covered with death memories and death memorials , and with graves , sepulchres and cemeteries , the repositories of cultural comment on death . Aubrey Cannon , in trying to construct a general theory 2 INTRODUCTION.
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OSIRIS AND ISIS The lifetheology of Ancient Egypt | 27 |
ZOROASTER AHURA MAZDA AND AHRIMAN | 40 |
CANAANITES AND MESOPOTAMIANS | 47 |
MERE TEXTS OR LIVING REALITIES? The possible influence of the older thanatologies on Judaism and Christianity | 60 |
FROM CAVES AND ROCKCUT TOMBS TO JUDAISM | 69 |
THE GENERAL ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST | 71 |
JUDAISM Towards the common era | 84 |
BURYING THE JEWISH DEAD | 95 |
ROMAN RELIGION AND ROMAN FUNERALS | 139 |
OVIDS EVERVARYING FORMS Greek mythologies sarcophagi and the boundaries of mortality | 155 |
OVIDS BONDS OF LOVE AND DUTY Funerals epitaphs orations and death in the arena | 167 |
CHRISTIANS MARTYRS SOLDIERS SAINTS | 187 |
CHRISTIAN BURIAL | 191 |
THE NATURE OF MARTYRDOM | 201 |
Epilogue | 217 |
APPENDIX | 221 |
GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR RESURRECTION Opening the heavens and raising the dead | 110 |
ROMANS AND GREEKS A theodicy of good fortune? | 125 |
ROMAN AND GREEK PHILOSOPHIES OF DEATH | 127 |
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