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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... tion : even the ' heroes ' fail ( Dalley 1991 ) . Even the most exemplary human beings are unable to reverse the original hostile attitude of the Creator . By contrast , in Egyptian Heliopolitan cosmology humans come into being as the ...
... tion is mistaken . While there may well be differences in emphasis , or indeed differences in audience reception or ' hearing ' of a partic- ular theology , it is best to see both forms of other - worldly visions and constructions as ...
... tion ' was neither guide nor practicality . The novelty - a novelty which Berger sees as a modern innovation - lay in the very fact of being able to or having to choose : Jews and Gentiles , men and women , slaves and free , were being ...
... tion of a small intra - Jewish argument into a major orthodoxy and dominant religious system of the Empire . In seeking to make sense of and confer order upon the great welter of data which are invoked in a study of death , we could ...
... tion with Jesus himself . In one version of the Edessa story , Jesus wrote a letter to Abgar , King of Edessa , in response to a request for help with a royal illness . This is clearly apocryphal . By the second century CE the city of ...
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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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