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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... period mummies with gold masks . Hellenistic necropolis , near Ayios Philion , North Cyprus , with graves ' converted ' by the addition of the Christian symbol , the fish . " To his daughter Pervica ' : late second century CE Romano ...
... period , atheism ... was not an option ' ( Fox 1988 : 30 ; my emphasis ) . Christianity came into existence in a world in which religion was of central importance ; and in any religious culture , the treatment of death is itself of ...
... period of ostentation , followed by a levelling - out period and then by one of societal regulation . It is , he says , not simply a matter of high status leading to high mortuary expenditure , but of ostentation in such matters being a ...
... period . Such coffins found in Canaan ( at Deir el - balah ) have been interpreted as the graves of Egyptian soldiers , dying far from home , unable to be returned to Egypt ( the preferred option ) but at least interred in the ...
... period in the resurrection of the dead after the general Judgement , as well as the view that the wicked would not enjoy the future life of the just . Inscriptions warned that Jews ( or others ) who disturbed the resting place of the ...
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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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