The Rise and Fall of the AfterlifeRoutledge, 2 Σεπ 2003 - 256 σελίδες Belief in the afterlife is still very much alive in Western civilisation, even though the truth of its existence is no longer universally accepted. Surprisingly, however, heaven, hell and the immortal soul were all ideas which arrived relatively late in the ancient world. Originally Greece and Israel - the cultures that gave us Christianity - had only the vaguest ideas of an afterlife. So where did these concepts come from and why did they develop? In this fascinating, learned, but highly readable book, Jan N. Bremmer - one of the foremost authorities on ancient religion - takes a fresh look at the major developments in the Western imagination of the afterlife, from the ancient Greeks to the modern near-death experience. |
Άλλες εκδόσεις - Προβολή όλων
The Rise and Fall of the Afterlife: The 1995 Read-Tuckwell Lectures at the ... Jan N. Bremmer Περιορισμένη προεπισκόπηση - 2002 |
Συχνά εμφανιζόμενοι όροι και φράσεις
Abaris Achaemenid afterlife already ancient Apocalypse Archaic Aristeas attested Avesta beliefin Berlin body Bremmer Burkert Cambridge Cathars Christ classical clearly connection cult Curma dead death derived Derveni papyrus Dionysos Dodds Dorotheus E. R. Dodds early Christian Eleusis Empedocles Epimenides eschatology Essenes FGrH Gnostic Göttingen Graf Greece Greek Hades heaven hell Hellenistic Herodotus Hippolytus History Homer ideas important influence Jewish king Late Antiquity later Leiden LIMC literature Livrea London Lore andScience Magic martyrs mention Meuli modern Munich myth NDEs Near-Death Experience necromancy ofthe oracle origin Orpheus Orphic Orphism Oxford pagan paradeisoi Paradise Paris Parmenides passage period Perpetua Persian Plato probably psychê purgatory Pythagoras Pythagorean Qumran recently reincarnation Religion resurrection ritual Roman Rome Scythian seems shamanism soul Studies Stuttgart suggests Testament texts theogony Thespesius Thesprotian tradition translation trees Tübingen underworld vision vols words York Zoroastrian