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[null,null,"Autore",null,"Davies Jon <1939-, >"]
[null,null,"Titolo",null,"Death, burial and rebirth in the religions of antiquity / / Jon Davies"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1999"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"1-134-79271-9"]
[{"$nulls":4},"0-203-28864-5"]
[{"$nulls":4},"1-280-33090-2"]
[{"$nulls":4},"0-203-03050-8"]
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[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (267 p.)"]
[null,null,"Collana",null,"Religion in the first Christian centuries"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"291.2/3/093"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Death - Religious aspects - History of doctrines"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Future life - History of doctrines"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Middle East Religion"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Rome Religion"]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Note generali","Description based upon print version of record."]
[null,null,null,"Nota di bibliografia","Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-239) and index."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"Front Cover; Death, Burial and Rebirth in the Religions of Antiquity; Copyright Page; Contents; List of plates; Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: Death in the Ancient Near East; 1. Osiris and Isis: The life-theology of Ancient Egypt; 2. Zoroaster, Ahura Mazda and Ahriman; 3. Canaanites and Mesopotamians; 4. Mere Texts or living realities?: The possible influence of the older thanatologies on Judaism and Christianity; Part II: From caves and rock-cut tombs to Judaism; 5. The general archaeology of the Ancient Near East; 6. Judaism: Towards the common era"]
[{"$nulls":4},"7. Burying the Jewish dead 8. Good luck with your resurrection!: Opening the heavens and raising the dead; Part III: Romans and Greeks: A theodicy of good fortune?; 9. Roman and Greek philosophies of death; 10. Roman religion and Roman funerals; 11. Ovid's 'ever-varying forms': Greek mythologies, sarcophagi and the boundaries of mortality; 12. Ovid's 'bonds of Love and duty': Funerals, epitaphs, orations and death in the arena; Part IV: Christians, martyrs, soldiers, saints; 13. Christian burial; 14. The nature of martyrdom; Epilogue"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Sacrificial living and sacrificial dying: Christians in the world Appendix; "]
[{"$nulls":4},"Bibliography; Index"]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","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"]