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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... seems to be one of the costs of being human . The gains from long term contact and interdependence are often followed by the agony , anger and feelings of emptiness and sorrow that result from the death of someone who has been important ...
... seem to have been features of both Persian and Greek ( or Hellenistic ) systems , and the result was a world of cultural variety and of cultural borrowing and lending nowhere more so than in the sphere of death and burial . The cultural ...
... seem to indicate a lack of concern for post - mortem survival and identity : yet most cremations did ( and do ) produce physical remains which can be , and often were , venerated as much as the full - body cadaver . Jews have always ...
... seem to have led a relatively quiet life , secure within a well - run Roman Empire , and their religious and death practices reflect this . In a complicated book , Christiane Sourvinou - Inwood provides a general summary of the Homeric ...
... seems to have been no problem in establishing the validity of a generally reli- gious view of life , a choice , that is , to be or remain religious . This is , of course , the contemporary problem . In the world of the Romans and Greeks ...
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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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