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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... course , their early martyrs and , centrally , their martyred leader . A very large part of the views on death of the early Christians is associated with their experience and symbolic evaluation of martyrdom . Indeed , in the minds of ...
... course , the contemporary problem . In the world of the Romans and Greeks , secularism was not a problem - see Robin Lane Fox's comment at the start of this introduction . Pluralism , however , was : the early Christian records depict a ...
... course , either one or both parties to the original compromise may come to discover that the temporary arrangement has a persuasive intellectual and communal competence exceeding the originally more grudging accommodation ; a new ...
... course Jews . At one time or another , and in one way or another , Jews had travelled to and lived in ( voluntarily or otherwise ) most of the major cultures and religions of the Ancient , Classical , Hellenic and Roman Near East . The ...
... course of Jewish history from the Iron Age into the Hellenistic and Roman periods . There is , of course , no implication in this that the movement of history in the Ancient Near East was aimed at ' producing ' Judaism . Jews and ...
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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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