ISBN:
9783110200546
Language:
English
Pages:
400 p.
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Zangenberg, Jürgen, 1964 - Commemorating the Dead. Texts and Artifacts in Context. Studies of Roman, Jewish, and Christian Burials. With an Introduction by R. Saller 2011
Parallel Title:
Print version Commemorating the Dead
DDC:
393/.10937
Keywords:
Art (Early Christian, Jewish) Burial
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Electronic books
Abstract:
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 requi
Description / Table of Contents:
Frontmatter; Table of Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1. An Overview of the Intellectual History of Catacomb Archaeology; Chapter 2. Housing the Dead: The Tomb as House in Roman Italy; Chapter 3. Commemorating the Dead in the Communal Cemeteries of Carthage; Chapter 4. Dining with the Dead: From the Mensa to the Altar in Christian Late Antiquity; Chapter 5. Sweet Spices in the Tomb: An Initial Study on the Use of Perfume in Jewish Burials; Chapter 6. From Columbaria to Catacombs: Collective Burial in Pagan and Christian Rome
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 7. Roman and Christian Burial Practices and the Patronage of WomenChapter 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; Chapter 9. Looking for Abercius: Reimagining Contexts of Interpretation of the "Earliest Christian Inscription"; Backmatter;
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Description based upon print version of record
DOI:
10.1515/9783110211573
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110211573
URL:
http://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.1515/9783110211573
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