Death, Burial and Rebirth in the Religions of Antiquity

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Routledge, 3. 4. 2013 - 272 strán (strany)

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:
* Osiris and Isis: the life theology of Ancient Egypt
* burying the Jewish dead
* Roman religion and Roman funerals
* Early Christian burial
* the nature of martyrdom.
Jon Davies also draws on the sociological theory of Max Weber to present a comprehensive introduction to and overview of death, burial and the afterlife in the first Christian centuries which offers insights into the relationship between social change and attitudes to death and dying.

 

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Introduction
1
Death in the Ancient Near East
23
From caves and rockcut tombs to Judaism
70
Romans and Greeks A theodicy of good fortune?
125
Christians martyrs soldiers saints
187
Epilogue
217
Appendix
221
Bibliography
225
Index
240
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Death, Burial and Rebirth in the Religions of Antiquity
Jon Davies
Obmedzený náhľad - 2013
Death, Burial, and Rebirth in the Religions of Antiquity
Jon Davies
Obmedzený náhľad - 1999

Časté výrazy a frázy

Abraham Adonis afterlife Ahura Mazda Ancient Near East apocalypse associated Baal belief Beth Shearim biblical Bloch-Smith body bones burial practices buried catacombs cemeteries century BCE coffin common concern corpse cosmology created creation cult cultic dead deceased Diodorus Siculus early Christian earth Egypt Egyptian epitaphs example existence father funeral funerary Gilgamesh God’s goddess gods grave Greco-Roman Greek Greek and Roman heaven Hellenistic heroes human ibid immortality individual inhumation interment Iron Age Israel Jesus Jewish Jews Judaism judgement killed Koortbojian Lattimore living located Lord Lucian Maccabees Marduk martyr-hero martyrdom martyrs memorials Mesopotamian military Mishnah monotheism monuments moral mourners mourning nature necropolis one’s Osiris ossuaries pagan perhaps period Perpetua post-mortem religion religious resurrection ritual Roman Empire Rome salvation sarcophagi second century secondary burial sense Sheol social society soul status story Temple Testament of Abraham texts thanatology tomb tradition Ugarit unclean underworld women Zoroastrianism

O tomto autorovi (2013)

Jon Davies was until recently Head of Department of Religious Studies at the University of Newcastle, where he now teaches part-time.

Bibliografické informácie

NázovDeath, Burial and Rebirth in the Religions of Antiquity
Religion in the First Christian Centuries
AutorJon Davies
VydavateľRoutledge, 2013
Kód ISBN1134792727, 9781134792726
Dĺžka272 strán (strany)
  
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