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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... 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 of death , burial and rebirth in the first ...
... Roman and Greek philosophies of death 127 10 Roman religion and Roman funerals 139 11 Ovid's ' ever - varying forms ' : Greek mythologies , sarcophagi and the boundaries of mortality 155 12 Ovid's ' bonds of love and duty ' : Funerals ...
... Roman ' new town ' of Cillium ( now Kasserine , Tunisia ) . 14 Roman , second century CE . White marble cinerarium ( ash container ) in the form of a tomb . The gable shows a reclining sphinx , symbol of death , one paw resting on a ...
... 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 religion at all . Since the ...
... Roman destruction of Jerusalem , was the home and workplace of Rabbi Judah ha - Nasi , ' editor ' of the Mishnah . Given its roles as a kind of Jerusalem - substitute and as a major rabbinical centre , Beth Shearim was the place to ...
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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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