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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... collective and individual life . This is true of any religion worthy of the name , and certainly of the religions and cults of the Ancient Near East and the Roman Empire that constitute the major part of this book . While , clearly ...
... collective memory of danger , war , persecution and political disaster ; and Jewish views on life and death , be it of their community or of indi- viduals , reveal a very deep concern indeed for the moral calculus of death as a ...
... collective moral language of salvation was deployed - the millenarian expectations of the Second Coming and consequent wholesale salvation and damnation ) and a Pauline accommoda- tionist Mission Theology ( in which millenarianism is ...
... collective ' the funerary architecture and the greater the disinclination to encourage or condone individual or status distinctions in access to or use of cemetery space and elaborate sepulchral ornamentation . However , whether elitist ...
... collective , anonymous corpse disposal - the puticuli . The Jews had Gehenna , a valley to the west of Jerusalem with long - standing associations with human sacrifice , later becoming the place where dead animals , the city's garbage ...
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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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