Commemorating the Dead

Texts and Artifacts in Context. Studies of Roman, Jewish and Christian Burials

Laurie Brink, Deborah Green (Herausgeber)

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XIV, 386 Seiten | Ausstattung: eBook & Hardcover

2008
De Gruyter
978-3-11-916727-7 (ISBN)

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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.

Laurie Brink, O.P., Catholic Theological Union, Chicago, Illinois, USA; Deborah Green, University of Oregon, USA.

Vorwort	Richard Saller
Zusatzinfo	Includes a print version and an ebook
Verlagsort	Berlin/Boston
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
Schlagworte	Art (Early Christian, Jewish) • Bestattung • burial • Burial; Art (Early Christian, Jewish) • Christentum /Geschichte • Christliche Kunst
ISBN-10	3-11-916727-4 / 3119167274
ISBN-13	978-3-11-916727-7 / 9783119167277
Zustand	Neuware