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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... gods could an ancient worshipper have ? These ques- tions are hard to answer without a synoptic view of what the different religions offered . The aim of the books in this series is to survey particular themes in the history of religion ...
... God ( s ) with his creation , including human beings . Since this relationship is mediated or revealed within history ... gods to serve them and then to die . They had to die as a condition of being allowed to exist . This bleak religion ...
... gods . They operate as thanatological pioneers , pushing into forbidden territory . The focus on the Creation ... god and the dying human . It permeates the ecology and liturgy of death , and makes sense of the events and emotions of ...
... God's anger or of his love ? Behind the burial practices and beliefs of first century CE Greeks and Romans ( and of ... God , is a feature of both Egyptian and Persian reli- gion . Related to the idea of judgement is a serious concern ...
... gods and even Hercules , the greatest of the heroes : But there is also a very thin layer of belief , not integrated within the remaining funeral ideology , according to which a few select people connected with the gods escape death 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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