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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... souls went , or even if , in their own minds , they had souls . We have perhaps , in our own experience of death and in our own common humanity , some human empathy , some sense of the pain of death and its association with the joy of ...
... soul ' and ' immortality ' are transposed onto more particularly Jewish views of the resurrection of the body ( Freedman 1992 : vol . 5 , 133_4 ; Goodenough 1953 ) . In this necropolis we see one of the fundamental facts about the ...
... soul and individualised post - mortem judgement and existence , yet comb- ined this with disincarnation practices quite alien and incompre- hensible to ( for example ) early Christians , to whom a whole - cadaver interment was important ...
... soul - may explain some part of the attractiveness of Platonism to early Christians ( and vice versa ) , it does not always do so ; it may indeed be associated with a quite different outcome . A Greek member of the Isiac cult may after ...
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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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