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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... beliefs of a culture about death , burial and the afterlife , beliefs Iwithin which these other , lesser , matters can be located ? After considerable tussle between the Marxist and the Weberian in my intellectual pedigree , I came to ...
... beliefs of this period in the resurrection of the dead after the general Judgement , as well as the view that the wicked would not enjoy the future life of the just . Inscriptions warned that Jews ( or others ) who disturbed the resting ...
... beliefs of first century CE Greeks and Romans ( and of Jews and Christians ) were the long shadows of ancient Egypt and Persia , each of them with complex and detailed thanatologies and burial practices . Behind them , and part of them ...
... belief in the immortality of the soul and individualised post - mortem judgement and existence , yet comb- ined this with disincarnation practices quite alien and incompre- hensible to ( for example ) early Christians , to whom a whole ...
... belief , not integrated within the remaining funeral ideology , according to which a few select people connected with the gods escape death and gain some sort of immortality . Menelaos , who is Zeus's son - in - law , will go to a ...
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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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