Coming back to life : the permeability of past and present, mortality and immortality, death and life in the ancient Mediterranean

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Daniel-Hughes, Carly, 1974- editor.

Tappenden, Frederick S., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mediterranean Region--Religious life and customs--Congresses.

Mediterranean Region.

Greece--Antiquities--Congresses.

Greece.

Rome--Antiquities--Congresses.

Rome.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (475 p.)

Other Title:

Coming back to life

Place of Publication:

McGill University Library & Archives 2017

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The lines between death and life were neither fixed nor finite to the peoples of the ancient Mediterranean. For most, death was a passageway into a new and uncertain existence, and many perceived the deceased to continue to exercise agency among the living. Even for those more skeptical of an afterlife, notions of

Contents:

Coming back to life in the ancient Mediterranean : an introduction / Frederick S. Tappenden and Carly Daniel-Hughes

Many (un)happy returns : ancient Greek concepts of a return from death and their later counterparts / Sarah Iles Johnston

Living without the dead : finding solace in ancient Rome / Valerie M. Hope

Bringing back to life : laments and the origin of the so-called words of institution / Angela Standhartinger

Guarding his body, mourning his death, and pleading for him in heaven : on Adam's death Eve's virtues in the Greek life of Adam and Eve / Vita Daphna Arbel

If so, how? Representing "coming back to life" in the mysteries of Mithras / Roger Beck

The cosmology of the raising of Lazarus (John 11-12) / Troels Engberg-Pedersen

Coming back to life in and through death : early Christian creativity in Paul, Ignatius, and Valentinus / Frederick S. Tappenden

"Tell me what shall arise" : conflicting notions of the resurrection body in fourth- and fifth-century Egypt / Hugo Lundhaug

"We are called to monogamy" : marriage, virginity, and the resurrection of the fleshly body in Tertullian of Carthage / Carly Daniel-Hughes

Death, resurrection, and legitimacy in the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles / David L. Eastman

Life and death, confession and denial : birthing language in the letter of the churches of Vienne and Lyons / Stéphanie Machabée

Weddings and the return to life in the Book of Revelation / Eliza Rosenberg

Hippolytus and Virbius : narratives of "coming back to life" and religious discourses in Greco-Roman literature / Katharina Waldner

Disarming death : Theomachy and resurrection in 1 Corinthians 15 / Jeffrey A. Keiser

Talitha Qum! An exploration of the image of Jesus as healer-physician-savior in the Synoptic Gospels in relation to the Asclepius cult / Frances Flannery

Equal to God : Jesus's crucifixion as Scheintod / Meredith Warren

Select bibliography of embedded online works / Frederick S. Tappenden and Bradley N. Rice.

Notes:

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