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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... nature of 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 ...
... Christian burial 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.
... 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 , location 5 INTRODUCTION.
... nature of his people the Jews . The tomb marks territory , dynasty and tribe . Jesus ' new and empty tomb marks the real beginning of a new religion . While there are clearly some important aspects of death and burial which seem to be ...
... nature and narrative of their movement , and to do so in the face of the exis- tence , power and persuasive competence of rival religions . Early Christianity could neither claim to be nor was a monopoly : we can perhaps see it ...
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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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