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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... pedigree , I came to the view that Weber was right : first look for the basic values of a society , then for its material reality . I came to the view that we must start with the creation xi PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
... creation stories contain the prime explanation : their history , transacting with their creation stories , gives us a large part of the explanation of their attitudes to death . This , then , is a Weberian rather than a Marxist approach ...
... Creation story and an account of the relationship within that story of the Creator - God ( s ) with his creation ... created by the gods to serve them and then to die . They had to die as a condition of being allowed to exist . This ...
... Creation - purpose achieves perfection in the creation of human beings . The ensuing thanatology develops , however ... created to the Creator , that is to a beatific afterlife , to ' salvation ' , a notion . absent from ancient ...
... created and maintained large ossuaries in which individual identity is lost and for which repeated corpse- and bone - handling is required . This may ( as some suggest ) reflect a period of Sadducean dominance , or it may reflect not so ...
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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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