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• catalog abstract "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-Islamic 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.--Rear cover.".
• catalog contributor b7583971.
• catalog contributor b7583972.
• catalog contributor b7583973.
• catalog contributor b7583974.
• catalog coverage "Mediterranean Region Civilization.".
• catalog created "c1994.".
• catalog date "1994".
• catalog date "c1994.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• catalog description "Introduction / Jan Maarten Bremer, Theo van den Hout and Rudolph Peters -- "Going out into the day" : ancient Egyptian beliefs and practices concerning death and immortality / Henk Milde -- Death as a privilege : the Hittite royal funerary ritual / Theo P.J. van den Hout -- Death and the after-life in the Hebrew Bible of ancient Israel / Nico van Uchelen -- The soul, death and the afterlife in early and classical Greece / Jan N. Bremmer -- Death and immortality in some Greek poems / Jan Maarten Bremer -- Hector's death and Augustan politics / Hans Smolenaars -- "Death, the elusive thief" : the classical Arabic elegy / Pieter Smoor -- Hebrew Andalusian elegies and the Arabic literary tradition / Arie Schippers -- Death and immortality in Greek philosophy : from the Presocratics to the Hellenistic era / Bartel Poortman -- Resurrection, revelation and reason : Husayn Al-Jisr (D. 1909) and Islamic eschatology / Rudolph Peters -- Iron Age cinerary urns from Latium in the shape of a hut : indicators of status? / Marijke Gnade.".
• catalog description "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-Islamic 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.--Rear cover.".
• catalog extent "253 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Hidden futures.".
• catalog identifier "9053560785".
• catalog isFormatOf "Hidden futures.".
• catalog issued "1994".
• catalog issued "c1994.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press,".
• catalog relation "Hidden futures.".
• catalog spatial "Mediterranean Region Civilization.".
• catalog subject "306.9 20".
• catalog subject "Civilization, Ancient.".
• catalog subject "Civilization, Classical.".
• catalog subject "Death History.".
• catalog subject "Death in literature.".
• catalog subject "HQ1073.5.M47 H53 1994".
• catalog subject "Immortality History.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Introduction / Jan Maarten Bremer, Theo van den Hout and Rudolph Peters -- "Going out into the day" : ancient Egyptian beliefs and practices concerning death and immortality / Henk Milde -- Death as a privilege : the Hittite royal funerary ritual / Theo P.J. van den Hout -- Death and the after-life in the Hebrew Bible of ancient Israel / Nico van Uchelen -- The soul, death and the afterlife in early and classical Greece / Jan N. Bremmer -- Death and immortality in some Greek poems / Jan Maarten Bremer -- Hector's death and Augustan politics / Hans Smolenaars -- "Death, the elusive thief" : the classical Arabic elegy / Pieter Smoor -- Hebrew Andalusian elegies and the Arabic literary tradition / Arie Schippers -- Death and immortality in Greek philosophy : from the Presocratics to the Hellenistic era / Bartel Poortman -- Resurrection, revelation and reason : Husayn Al-Jisr (D. 1909) and Islamic eschatology / Rudolph Peters -- Iron Age cinerary urns from Latium in the shape of a hut : indicators of status? / Marijke Gnade.".
• catalog title "Hidden futures : death and immortality in Ancient Egypt, Anatolia, the classical, biblical and Arabic-Islamic world / edd. J.M. Bremmer, Th. P.J. van den Hout, R. Peters.".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".