Departing from scholarship dedicated to the socio-historical realities of priesthood at Qumran, this book explores, in two parts, the most pervasive literary representations of priesthood in the Dead Sea Scrolls as a reflection of the religious worldview of the Qumran community …
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
The Routledge handbook of death and the afterlife
Il regno del nemico: la morte nella religione di Canaan
by Peri, Chiara
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Dualities -- The splitting of Herakles -- The roadmap -- Proserpina's tapestry, Strabo's cloak -- Cosmos -- The cloak of stars -- Soul music -- Intermezzo -- Plato's soulscapes -- Interplanetary harmonies -- A sprinkling of science -- The lyre and the cloak -- To the sky -- The …
"This book is a tour of afterlife landscapes from Homer to Dante. It argues that the topography of the afterlife in Greek and Roman tradition, and in Dante, reflects the state of "scientific" knowledge at the time of the various contexts in which we find it, and the landscape of…