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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... moral meaning of both collective and individual life . This is true of any religion worthy of the name , and certainly of the religions and cults of the Ancient Near East and the Roman Empire that constitute the major part of this book ...
... moral drama , a cosmology , a Creation story and an account of the relationship within that story of the Creator - God ( s ) with his creation , including human beings . Since this relationship is mediated or revealed within history ...
... moral scales of God , is a feature of both Egyptian and Persian reli- gion . Related to the idea of judgement is a serious concern with ( though not necessarily for ) the body , a concern which is as much to provide the living with a ...
... moral quality , and in others merely a set of negative virtues or positive failings . This mechanism is most pronounced with death in war , but such a moral categorising of the dead goes on at every level of society , and in stable and ...
... moral covenant between the living and the dead , is likely to become more urgent and more sharp - edged in a society characterised by serious communal emergency or crisis . The obvious instance is war , when ( whether victorious or ...
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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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