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

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 afterl...

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Main Authors: Daniel-Hughes, Carly (Author), Tappenden, Frederick S. (Author), Rice, Bradley N (Author)
Corporate Author: Coming Back to Life: Performance, Memory, and Cognition in the Ancient Mediterranean (Conference) (2014, Montréal, Québec)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Montréal, QC McGill University Library and Archives 2017, 2017©2017
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505 0 |a 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 --  
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505 0 |a Equal to God : Jesus's crucifixion as Scheintod / Meredith Warren -- Select bibliography of embedded online works / Frederick S. Tappenden and Bradley N. Rice 
505 0 |a "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 --  
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