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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... remains , that we can construct some sense of , some empathy with the death cultures of the Ancient Near East , the Hellenistic world and the early Roman Empire . Their creation stories contain the prime explanation : their history ...
... remains . Such remains are , as he says , understandable only within some understanding of the symbolic language and theological thinking of the societies which produced them . We can with benefit retain Cannon's emphasis on social ...
... remains ( ' relics ' ) of their martyr- heroes and -heroines the ostentatious funerary architecture which characterised both earlier and later cultures . Death , while always democratic in nature , is seldom democratic in expression ...
... remains which can be , and often were , venerated as much as the full - body cadaver . Jews have always practised full - body interment , and have also ( perhaps paradoxically ) regarded corpse - handling as polluting and unclean . Yet ...
... remains of the deceased and the concomitant restruc- turing of their social relationships . In many cultures the funeral is aimed at neutralising the dead , to render them indifferent to the new social arrangements from which they are ...
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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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