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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... living realities ? The possible influence of the older thanatologies on Judaism and Christianity 60 PART II From caves and rock - cut tombs to Judaism 5 The general archaeology of the Ancient Near East 6 Judaism : Towards the common era ...
... 191 14 The nature of martyrdom 201 Epilogue 217 Sacrificial living and sacrificial dying : Christians in the world 217 Appendix Bibliography 221 225 Index 240 LIST OF PLATES Following page 124 1 ' Hail and viii CONTENTS.
... living god and the dying human . It permeates the ecology and liturgy of death , and makes sense of the events and emotions of dying , death and burial : it provides the ' atmosphere ' around the deathbed and the funeral . Thanatologies ...
... living with a definite focus for post - mortem ritual as for maintaining the identity of the deceased . I say with , rather than for the body , because it has proved very difficult indeed to relate actual burial practices to death ...
... living and the dead , is likely to become more urgent and more sharp - edged in a society characterised by serious ... living in this world . Clear evidence for the effect of war on attitudes to death and to the relationship of these ...
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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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