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Coming Back to Life: The Permeability of Past and Present, Mortality and Immortality, Death and Life in the Ancient Mediterranean
- Author(s):
- Vita Daphna Arbel, Roger Beck, Carly Daniel-Hughes, David L. Eastman, Troels Engberg-Pedersen, Frances Flannery, Valerie Hope, Sarah Iles Johnson, Jeffrey A. Keiser, Hugo Lundhaug (see profile) , Stéphanie Machabée, Gregory Nagy, Eliza Rosenberg, Angela Standhartinger, Frederick S. Tappenden (see profile) , Katharina Waldner, Meredith Warren (see profile) , Bradley N. Rice (see profile)
- Date:
- 2017
- Group(s):
- Ancient Jew Review, Archaeology, Biblical Studies, Classical archaeology, Late Antiquity, Religious Studies
- Subject(s):
- Religions, Mediterranean Region, History, Ancient, Death, Church history--Primitive and early church, Judaism--Post-exilic period (Judaism)
- Item Type:
- Book
- Tag(s):
- afterlife, death, resurrection, Ancient Mediterranean religions, Early Christianity, Early Judaism
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6W93F
- Abstract:
- 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. The dead were not so much extinguished as understood to be elsewhere, and many perceived the deceased to continue to exercise agency among the living. Even for those more skeptical of an afterlife, notions of coming back to life provided frameworks in which to conceptualize the on-going social, political, and cultural influence of the past. This collection of essays examines how notions of coming back to life shape practices and ideals throughout the ancient Mediterranean. All contributors focus on the common theme of coming back to life as a discursive and descriptive space in which antique peoples construct, maintain, and negotiate the porous boundaries between past and present, mortality and immortality, death and life.
- Notes:
- Papers based on the conference Coming Back to Life: Performance, Memory, and Cognition in the Ancient Mediterranean, held at McGill University and Concordia University, from May 8 to 11, 2014. http://comingbacktolife.mcgill.ca/index Funding for this eBook was provided by SSHRC (www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca), McGill Library Scholarly Communications (www.mcgill.ca/library/services/scholarly-publishing), and the McGill University School of Religious Studies (www.mcgill.ca/religiousstudies).
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Conference proceeding
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 6 years ago
- License:
- Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives
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