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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Daniel-Hughes, Carly, 1974- (Autor, Editor ), Tappenden, Frederick S. (Autor, Editor ), Rice, Bradley N (Autor, Editor )
Autor Corporativo: Coming Back to Life: Performance, Memory, and Cognition in the Ancient Mediterranean (Conference)
Formato: Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: 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.