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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... heroes ' fail ( Dalley 1991 ) . Even the most exemplary human beings are unable to reverse the original hostile attitude of the Creator . By contrast , in Egyptian Heliopolitan cosmology humans come into being as the tears of joy of ...
... heroes ' of that particular society . Theologically , such exemplars and heroes become the ' gatecrashers of heaven ' as they seek , as recognition of their terrestrial virtue , some release from the general sameness of human death in a ...
... heroes and -heroines the ostentatious funerary architecture which characterised both earlier and later cultures . Death , while always democratic in nature , is seldom democratic in expression . Tombs , together with their grave - goods ...
... hero Hercules , his protectress Athena and associated figures from Greek mythology ( Eisner 1995 : 274 ; Goodenough 1953 ) . It is not as if there were , in these separated centuries , a small number of well - defined religions fully in ...
... 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 gain some sort of immortality . Menelaos ...
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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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