Format:
Online-Ressource (PDF-Datei: X, 457 S.)
Edition:
2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9783110208818
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9783110208825
Series Statement:
Deuterocanonical and cognate literature 2009
Content:
There is surely nothing more numinous or pivotal in life than the experience of death and mortality, and it is necessary for culture and religion to deal with this experience as adequately as possible. Moreover, the treatment of persons dying, the care of corpses, and also hopes in a life or a comparable existence after death often form decisive keys to the understanding of anthropological presuppositions of the respective social, cultural and religious contexts. The articles in this volume deal with the following questions: What role does human corporality play in the context of dying, death, and resurrection in ancient Judaism, early Christianity and in their respective religious and cultural contexts? What conclusions do the statements about the body, but also the dealing with the body allow regarding the respective anthropological ideas in concrete social, cultural and religious contexts? The main focus of the volume lies on early Jewish and ancient Christian texts of the 3rd century B.C.E. until the 3rd century C.E. Some essays, however, deal with other traditions like the religion of Ptolemaic Egypt, Zoroastrism or ancient Gnosis.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
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Frontmatter; Contents; Resurrection of the Body in Early Judaism and Christianity; The Impurity of the Corpse (nasa) and the Future Body (tan i pasen): Death and Afterlife in Zoroastrianism; Resurrection and the Body in Graeco-Roman Egypt; Die Unreinheit der Leiche nach der Tora; The Revivification of the Dry Bones: Ezekiel 37:1-14; Death and Burial in the Tobit Narration in the Context of the Old Testament Tradition; Auferstehung und Epiphanie. Jenseits- und Körperkonzepte im Zweiten Makkabäerbuch; Erkenntnis und Tod in der antik-jüdischen Weisheit
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Die Vorstellung vom Tod und den Toten nach Ben SiraAfterlife in Jubilees: Through a Covenantal Prism; Bones, Bodies and Resurrection in the Dead Sea Scrolls; Resurrection of the Body in Early Rabbinic Judaism; Human Body and Life Beyond Death in Matthew's Gospel; Leiblichkeit und Auferstehung im Johannesevangelium; „Die Seelen der Geschlachteten" (Offb 6,9)?; Dialogues with the Archons: The Post-mortem Encounters of the Ascending Soul in Gnostic Texts; Die Auferstehung des Fleisches in den frühchristlichen Grabinschriften; Why Body Matters in the Afterlife; Lebendige Tote?; Backmatter;
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110208801
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The human body in death and resurrection Berlin [u.a.] : de Gruyter, 2009 ISBN 9783110208825
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110208801
Language:
English
Author information:
Nicklas, Tobias 1967-
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