Author: Rachel S. HallotePublisher:
ISBN: 9781566634014
Category : Burial
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Death, Burial, and Afterlife in the Biblical World
Author: Rachel S. HallotePublisher:
ISBN: 9781566634014
Category : Burial
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Death, Burial, and Afterlife in the Biblical World
Author: Rachel S. HallotePublisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
ISBN:
Category : Burial
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Rachel Hallote's Book examins the archaeological, literary, and artistic evidence for the burial practices of biblical times, their antecedents, and successors.
Death and the Afterlife
Author: Robert A. MoreyPublisher: Faith Defenders
ISBN: 0871234335
Category : Death
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
An exploration of the rituals, beliefs, art, and mythology humans have used to understand death and the afterlife examines a wide range of practices and traditions--Mexico's Day of the Dead, Victorian funeral customs, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, the burial of Pharoahs, cryonics, and ideas from the Bible--to show a variety of human responses to death.
Death and Eternity
Author: Robert W. JenkinsPublisher:
ISBN: 9781592990870
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
This book is absolutely one of the best books you will ever read on the subject of Death and the Afterlife. The author has dug beneath the surface of the King James Version of the Bible to bring forth some of the most awesome revelation you will ever discover about Death and the Afterlife this side of the grave. Some of the questions that are answered in this book are: . What happens to a person at the moment of death? . Are Near Death Experiences Biblical? . Do Angels appear to people at the moment of death? . Are we reunited with loved ones who died before us at the moment of death? . Could some of my family and friends be in a place called Hell? . Is the concept of purgatory taught in the Bible? These questions and many others are answered in this book using a simple conversational style of writing. This is truly one of the most enlightening studies on the subject of death and the afterlife that you will ever read.
Shades of Sheol
Author: Philip JohnstonPublisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830826874
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Philip S. Johnston examines Israelite views on death and afterlife as reflected in the Hebrew Bible and in material remains, and sets them in their cultural, literary and theological contexts.
Death and the Afterlife in the New Testament
Author: Jaime Clark-SolesPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0567246523
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Clark-Soles began this project in order to answer the question, "What exactly does the New Testament say about death and afterlife?" It turns out that it says both more and less than one might hope or expect. By more, she means that every time the subject of death and what happens after death arises, it is clear that the authors' interests far exceed answering that single question. Their comments emerge from the concerns and experiences of living Christian communities, they relate to a larger theological and pastoral agenda, and their primary focus remains life on earth and the proper living of it. The texts say less than one may hope because no author sets out to answer my question directly. There is no systematic theology in the New Testament regarding death and aftelife. Certainly resurrection appears throughout, though differently emphasized and interpreted. Beyond that, the fascinating aspects of the question are in the details of the texts. Therefore, the appropriate question, as it turns out, is not: What does the New Testament say about death and afterlife, but what do various New Testament texts say about it? Others have sought to unify the New Testament witness, glossing over the individual pictures presented by the New Testament authors. Clark-Soles revels in the snapshots of the individuals and am less interested in the family photo. Clark-Soles inquires into the specific language that each author uses regarding death and afterlife. She explores anthropology, cosmology, eschatology, and, where relevant, theology and Christology. Finally, Clark-Soles suggests ways that the stated views function in each situation.
A History of Death in the Hebrew Bible
Author: Matthew J. SurianoPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190844736
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Postmortem existence in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament was rooted in mortuary practices and conceptualized through the embodiment of the dead. But this idea of the afterlife was not hopeless or fatalistic, consigned to the dreariness of the tomb. The dead were cherished and remembered, their bones were cared for, and their names lived on as ancestors. This book examines the concept of the afterlife in the Hebrew Bible by studying the treatment of the dead, as revealed both in biblical literature and in the material remains of the southern Levant. The mortuary culture of Judah during the Iron Age is the starting point for this study. The practice of collective burial inside a Judahite rock-cut bench tomb is compared to biblical traditions of family tombs and joining one's ancestors in death. This archaeological analysis, which also incorporates funerary inscriptions, will shed important insight into concepts found in biblical literature such as the construction of the soul in death, the nature of corpse impurity, and the idea of Sheol. In Judah and the Hebrew Bible, death was a transition that was managed through the ritual actions of the living. The connections that were forged through such actions, such as ancestor veneration, were socially meaningful for the living and insured a measure of immortality for the dead.
Death and the Afterlife in the New Testament
Author: Jaime Clark-SolesPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0567029123
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
There is no systematic theology in the New Testament regarding death and aftelife. Therefore, the appropriate question, as it turns out, is not: What does the New Testament say about death and afterlife, but what do various New Testament texts say about it? She explores anthropology, cosmology, eschatology, and, where relevant, theology and Christology.
The Theology of Death
Author: Douglas DaviesPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0567346471
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
The first part of the book is grounded in biblical issues and in historical and philosophical theology. It seeks to establish several schemes of death theology related, for example, to early Christianity's Jewish cultural milieu, to belief in Christ's resurrection and to Christology, to issues of millennial belief and to an emergent liturgical practice. The rise of notions of the soul in relation to medieval thought and practice and the place of death in reformation theology are both covered, as is the role of the nineteenth and twentieth century. Finally the rise of biblical theology is considered, especially in the twentieth century. The second part of the book takes up several contemporary models of the theology of death. The first pursues a traditional acceptance of an other-worldly afterlife, the second explores worldly analysis of eternal life as a quality of contemporary existence devoid of any future state. The third develops the worldly model and considers a wider sense of self as a part of an ecological view of the world as a divine creation and explores the meaning of birth-life and death amidst a divine environment. The Theology of Death aims to offer some sharply defined schemes to focus thought in a Christian environment in which death, hell and heaven have almost lost their place. The topic of hope is a key element and the book explores the birth and fostering of hope within Christian traditions.
Oxford Bibliographies
Author: Ilan StavansPublisher:
ISBN: 9780199913701
Category : Hispanic Americans
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"An emerging field of study that explores the Hispanic minority in the United States, Latino Studies is enriched by an interdisciplinary perspective. Historians, sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists, demographers, linguists, as well as religion, ethnicity, and culture scholars, among others, bring a varied, multifaceted approach to the understanding of a people whose roots are all over the Americas and whose permanent home is north of the Rio Grande. Oxford Bibliographies in Latino Studies offers an authoritative, trustworthy, and up-to-date intellectual map to this ever-changing discipline."--Editorial page.