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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... body - shaped coffins of the Egyptian Middle Kingdom , in which even ordinary Egyptians were buried well into the Roman period . Such coffins found in Canaan ( at Deir el - balah ) have been interpreted as the graves of Egyptian ...
... body ( Freedman 1992 : vol . 5 , 133_4 ; Goodenough 1953 ) . In this necropolis we see one of the fundamental facts about the period with which we are concerned , which is the pervasive influ- ence of ' Hellenism ' , ubiquitous and ...
... body , a concern which is as much to provide the living with a definite focus for post - mortem ritual as for maintaining the identity of the deceased . I say with , rather than for the body , because it has proved very difficult indeed ...
... body cadaver . Jews have always practised full - body interment , and have also ( perhaps paradoxically ) regarded corpse - handling as polluting and unclean . Yet Jews , certainly from the end of the first century Bce to about 70 Ce ...
... body would share with all other bodies a propensity to decay and smell : burying went on all the time , and to an extent Christian funerary practice was conservative . Jesus is , after all , interred in the pre- Christian tomb of 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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