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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... martyrdom Jon Davies also draws on the sociological theory of Max Weber to present a comprehensive introduction to and overview of death , burial and rebirth in the first Christian centuries which offers insights into the relationship ...
... 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.
... martyrdom . Indeed , in the minds of the majority populations of the Hellenic world , and often to their astonishment , it was the zeal with which Christians sought and welcomed death and martyrdom which most radically identi- fied them ...
... Martyrdom he urged martyrs to see themselves as part of the great cosmic struggle : A great assembly is gathered to watch you as you do combat and are called to bear witness . ... The whole universe and all the angels on the right and ...
... martyrdom ordinary , early Christianity began , in its unfolding story , to set itself apart from the death - traditions of the cultures and religions in which its origins lay . However martyrdom , expressed as martyria , had the almost ...
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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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