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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... early Christian world . He analyses varied funerary rituals and examines different notions of the afterlife . Among the areas covered are : · Isis and Osiris , Baal and Ahura Mazda : the ... FIRST CHRISTIAN CENTURIES Edited by Deborah Sawyer.
... Christian alike , that came to chisel out a position for themselves at the expense of the time - honoured consensus ... early Christian period , atheism ... was not an option ' ( Fox 1988 : 30 ; my emphasis ) . Christianity came into ...
... finds another expres- sion in the early fourth century CE Via Latina Catacomb , Rome , in which one cubiculum is decorated with Christian catacomb and sarcophagus imagery , while another is just as exclusively pagan 6 INTRODUCTION.
... early Christians , to whom a whole - cadaver interment was important precisely because the body was so essential to post - mortem identity , judgement and resurrection . Cremation , for many centuries the standard Roman mortuary ...
... history . It makes it bearable . To a large extent the early Jesus Movement shared in this tradition , and soon added to it that form of death in which so much of early Christian thanatology found its origin and rationale : the death of ...
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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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