UID:
almafu_9958353729602883
Format:
1 online resource (400p.)
ISBN:
9783110211573
Content:
Commemorating the Dead analyzes and interprets the material remains of Roman period burials in light of ancient texts. Is the move from columbaria to catacombs the result of evolving religious identities or simply a matter of a change in fashions? What Greco-Roman and Jewish funerary images were “baptized” as Christian ones? In Commemorating the Dead, archaeologists, Roman historians, and scholars of Judaism and Early Christianity engage in a cross-disciplinary conversation on the impact of Roman and Jewish burial customs on the creation of early Christian memorial practices.
Note:
Frontmatter --
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Table of Contents --
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Introduction --
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Archaeology and Artifacts --
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Chapter 1. An Overview of the Intellectual History of Catacomb Archaeology --
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Chapter 2. Housing the Dead: The Tomb as House in Roman Italy: Domus ista, domus! --
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Chapter 3. Commemorating the Dead in the Communal Cemeteries of Carthage --
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Ritual and Religious Rites --
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Chapter 4. Dining with the Dead: From the Mensa to the Altar in Christian Late Antiquity --
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Chapter 5. Sweet Spices in the Tomb: An Initial Study on the Use of Perfume in Jewish Burials --
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Patronal Relations and Changes in Burial Practices --
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Chapter 6. From Columbaria to Catacombs: Collective Burial in Pagan and Christian Rome --
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Chapter 7. Roman and Christian Burial Practices and the Patronage of Women --
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Envisioning Context and Meaning --
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Chapter 8. From Endymion in Roman Domus to Jonah in Christian Catacombs: From Houses of the Living to Houses for the Dead. Iconography and Religion in Transition --
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Chapter 9. Looking for Abercius: Reimagining Contexts of Interpretation of the “Earliest Christian Inscription” --
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Backmatter
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 978-3-11-020054-6
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
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Theology
Keywords:
Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.1515/9783110211573
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110211573
