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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... women , conversion , language , death , magic , sacrifice and purity . Also available in this series : WOMEN AND RELIGION IN THE FIRST CHRISTIAN CENTURIES Deborah F. Sawyer THE CRUCIBLE OF CHRISTIAN MORALITY J. Ian H. McDonald SACRED ...
... women do another . It proved much more difficult to establish patterns and processes of social change in , for example , the relationship between such matters as attitudes to the corpse and the method of corpse - disposal , including ...
... women , dying for reasons of individual conscience rather than being apotheosised as military heroes or as exemplary and emblem- atic figures of particular nations or societies . The martyrs of Christianity are ordinary individuals ; it ...
... women , slaves and free , were being offered the choice of creating new tradi- tions , a process which could perhaps only in retrospect be seen as abandoning old traditions . For cultists and missionaries of endless variety , there ...
... women from an association with their natal ethnic or civic group membership , in individualising both death and its salvific consequence , and in making martyrdom ordinary , early Christianity began , in its unfolding story , to set ...
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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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