Hidden Futures: Death and Immortality in Ancient Egypt, Anatolia, the Classical, Biblical and Arabic-Islamic World.

Language: English

Published by Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 1994

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253 p., ill. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Minimally rubbed, slight staining on bottom edge, otherwise very good and clean. / Minimal berieben, leichte Anschmutzung auf Fußschnitt, sonst sehr gut und sauber. - Table of contents: Introduction by Jan Maarten Bremer, Theo van den Hout, Rudolph Peters -- General -- Going out into the Day. Ancient Egyptian Beliefs and Practices Concerning Death and Immortality by Henk Milde -- Death as a Privilege. The Hittite Royal Funerary Ritual by Theo P.J. van den Hout -- Death and the After-life in the Hebrew Bible of Ancient Israel by Nico van Uchelen -- The Soul, Death and the Afterlife in Early and Classical Greece by Jan N. Bremmer -- Literary -- Death and Immortality in Some Greek Poems by Jan Maarten Bremer -- Hectors Death and Augustan Politics by Hans Smolenaars -- Death, the Elusive Thief: the Classical Arabic Elegy by Pieter Smoor -- Hebrew Andalusian Elegies and the Arabic Literary Tradition by Arie Schippers -- Philosophical -- Death and Immortality in Greek Philosophy. From the Presocratics to the Hellenistic Era by Bartel Poortman -- Resurrection, Revelation and Reason. Husayn al-Jisr (d. 1909) and Islamic Eschatology by Rudolph Peters -- Archaeological -- Iron Age Cinerary Urns from Latium in the Shape of a Hut: Indicators of Status? by Marijke Gnade. - There are probably as many views on death as there are civilizations; even within one civilization views may shift from one century to another, as is exemplified by ancient Greece. This has been observed in our own era as well: previously death seemed to be banned to sterile hospital beds and funeral homes, nowadays dying tends to become more 'social and comes into the open again. On the whole, a renewed interest in death is noticeable, and the present book is an expression of that trend. This volume of essays grew out of a symposium held in December 1992 at the University of Amsterdam and organized by the Institute for Mediterranean Studies. They are arranged in four sections, viz. general, literary, philosophical and archaeological. After four general articles concerning the views on death and immortality held in Ancient Egypt, Hittite Anatolia, Homeric and Classical Greece, and Israel in Biblical times, some of the cultures not yet represented are dealt with in the other sections: Rome and Italy in the literary and archaeological sections, and the Arabic-lslamic world in the literary and philosophical sections. All papers conclude with bibliographies and there is a subject index to the book as a whole. Although representing only some of the many cultures once bordering the Mediterranean, the contributions do reflect the wide variety of ideas on death and immortality to be found in that area. As such, this book is of interest not only to specialists in the various fields treated here, but also to historians and students of comparative religion and literature, as well as to the general academic reader. ISBN 9789053560785 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 495. …

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Title
Hidden Futures: Death and Immortality in Ancient Egypt, Anatolia, the Classical, Biblical and Arabic-Islamic World.
Author
Bremer, Jan Maarten, Theo Van den Hout and Rudolph Peters (eds.):
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Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press
Publication year
1994
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Original softcover.
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English
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