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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... became neologisms , so nepes , for example , functioned as a synonym for tomb . There are Greek references to eternal life and to Hades . More specifically , Jewish words and phrases reflect the Jewish beliefs of this period in the ...
... and religions of the Ancient , Classical , Hellenic and Roman Near East . The story of Abraham and his descendants , of the sojourn in Egypt and of the wandering Israelite tribes who became the ' 23 Part I: DEATH IN THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST.
... became the Roman Empire ( MacMullen 1981 : 1 ) . The ' standard ' Greco - Roman city referred to by MacMullen would contain temples to Jupiter , Juno and Minerva , Mercury , Isis and Serapis , Apollo , Liber Pater , Hercules , Mars ...
... became the location of persistent intra - Christian disputes , ' an amorphous mass of Christians ' , with heresies in various forms ( such as the teachings of Marcion and Tatian ) , as well as Bardesanes ' own version , all adding 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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