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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... traditions of antiquity are studies in isolation , without any real consideration of how they interacted . What made someone with a free choice become an adherent of one faith rather than another ? Why might a former pagan choose to ...
... traditional public worship . ( Brown 1971 : 57 ) It is the central thesis of this book that it was on matters to do with death that ' Christianity ' successfully defined an identity for itself that was both distinctive and , at the same ...
... traditions . Death asks many questions : Why do we die ? Why do the good die just as certainly as the wicked ? Are the wicked and the good , equal at death , equal also in the life after death ? Is death an expression of God's anger or ...
... tradition , and soon added to it that form of death in which so much of early Christian thanatology found its origin and rationale : the death of martyrs . In Roman history and in Greek history , heroes have greater salience than ...
... traditions of which he was so proud . Like most religious undertakings ( and most of the other things that humans do ) the Christian project stumbled into existence , reacting to accident and to happenstance and opportunity neither ...
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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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