Coming back to life : the permeability of past and present, mortality and immortality, death and life in the ancient Mediterranean /
The lines between death and life were neither fixed nor finite to the peoples of the ancient Mediterranean. For most, death was a passageway into a new and uncertain existence, and many perceived the deceased to continue to exercise agency among the living. Even for those more skeptical of an afterl...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook |
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Montréal, QC :
McGill University Library and Archives,
2017.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Coming back to life in the ancient Mediterranean : an introduction / Frederick S. Tappenden and Carly Daniel-Hughes
- Many (un)happy returns : ancient Greek concepts of a return from death and their later counterparts / Sarah Iles Johnston
- Living without the dead : finding solace in ancient Rome / Valerie M. Hope
- Bringing back to life : laments and the origin of the so-called words of institution / Angela Standhartinger
- Guarding his body, mourning his death, and pleading for him in heaven : on Adam's death Eve's virtues in the Greek life of Adam and Eve / Vita Daphna Arbel
- If so, how? Representing "coming back to life" in the mysteries of Mithras / Roger Beck
- The cosmology of the raising of Lazarus (John 11-12) / Troels Engberg-Pedersen
- Coming back to life in and through death : early Christian creativity in Paul, Ignatius, and Valentinus / Frederick S. Tappenden
- "Tell me what shall arise" : conflicting notions of the resurrection body in fourth- and fifth-century Egypt / Hugo Lundhaug
- "We are called to monogamy" : marriage, virginity, and the resurrection of the fleshly body in Tertullian of Carthage / Carly Daniel-Hughes
- Death, resurrection, and legitimacy in the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles / David L. Eastman
- Life and death, confession and denial : birthing language in the letter of the churches of Vienne and Lyons / Stéphanie Machabée
- Weddings and the return to life in the Book of Revelation / Eliza Rosenberg
- Hippolytus and Virbius : narratives of "coming back to life" and religious discourses in Greco-Roman literature / Katharina Waldner
- Disarming death : Theomachy and resurrection in 1 Corinthians 15 / Jeffrey A. Keiser
- Talitha Qum! An exploration of the image of Jesus as healer-physician-savior in the Synoptic Gospels in relation to the Asclepius cult / Frances Flannery
- Equal to God : Jesus's crucifixion as Scheintod / Meredith Warren
- Select bibliography of embedded online works / Frederick S. Tappenden and Bradley N. Rice.