Commemorating the Dead
Texts and Artifacts in Context. Studies of Roman, Jewish and Christian Burials. Vorwort: Saller, Richard
(Sprache: Englisch)
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...
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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.
Autoren-Porträt
Laurie Brink, O.P., Catholic Theological Union, Chicago, Illinois, USA; Deborah Green, University of Oregon, USA.Bibliographische Angaben
- 2008, XIV, 386 Seiten, 60 Schwarz-Weiß-Abbildungen, Maße: 16 x 23,8 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Laurie Brink, Deborah Green
- Verlag: De Gruyter
- ISBN-10: 3110200546
- ISBN-13: 9783110200546
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
"Ein Abkürzungsverzeichnis, eine ausführliche Bibliographie und ein Register machen diesen höchst verdienstvollen Band zu einer inspirierenden Grundlage für weitere Forschungen zur antiken Bestattungskultur und zum Platz des frühen Christentums in seiner römischen Mitwelt."Jürgen Zangenberg in: Theologische Literaturzeitung 7-8/2011
"In Commemorating the Dead, scholars provide perceptive and thought-provoking insights into many of these questions. Their research stimulates and raises critical questions for on-going research."
Terri Bednarz in: Catholic Library World 4/2010
"[...] so handelt es sich [...] um einen sehr gelungenen Beitrag zur Diskussion um die Geschichte der spätantiken Bestattungsbräuche."
Schmitz-Esser in: Sehepunkte.de 9/2009
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