Commemorating the dead : texts and artifacts in context : studies of Roman, Jewish, and Christian burials /
The distinctions and similarities among Roman, Jewish, and Christian burials can provide evidence of social networks, family life, and, perhaps, religious sensibilities. Is the Roman development from columbaria to catacombs the result of evolving religious identities or simply a matter of a change i...
| Други автори: | Brink, Laurie, 1961-, Green, Deborah A. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Berlin ; New York :
Walter de Gruyter,
℗♭2008.
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http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=274319 |
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Print version::
Commemorating the dead. |
| Резюме: |
The distinctions and similarities among Roman, Jewish, and Christian burials can provide evidence of social networks, family life, and, perhaps, religious sensibilities. Is the Roman development from columbaria to catacombs the result of evolving religious identities or simply a matter of a change in burial fashions? Do the material remains from Jewish burials evidence an adherence to ancient customs, or the adaptation of rituals from surrounding cultures? What Greco-Roman funerary images were taken over and "baptized" as Christian ones? The answers to these and other questions require that the material culture be viewed, whenever possible, in situ, through multiple disciplinary lenses and in light of ancient texts. Roman historians (John Bodel, Richard Saller, Andrew Wallace-Hadrill), archaeologists (Susan Stevens, Amy Hirschfeld), scholars of rabbinic period Judaism (Deborah Green), Christian history (Robin M. Jensen), and the New Testament (David Balch, Laurie Brink, O.P., Margaret M. Mitchell, Carolyn Osiek, R.S.C.J.) engaged in a research trip to Rome and Tunisia to investigate imperial period burials first hand. Commemorting the Dead is the result of a three year scholarly conversation on their findings. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (xiv, 386 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-378) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9783110211573 3110211572 1281999393 9781281999399 |