Proceedings of an meeting of the International Society for the Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature, held at the University of Regensburg, Germany, Dec. 3-6, 2008
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Resurrection of the body in early Judaism and Christianity / Claudia Setzer -- The impurity of the corpse (nasā) and the future body (tan ī pasēn) : death and the afterlife in Zoroastrianism / Manfred Hutter -- Resurrection and the body in Graeco-Roman Egypt / Mark Smith -- Die Unreinheit der Leiche nach der Tora / Thomas Hieke -- The revivification of the dry bones / Karin Schöpflin -- Death and burial in the Tobit narration in the context of the Testament tradition / Beate Ego -- Auferstehung und Epiphanie : Jenseits- und Körperkonzepte im Zweiten Makkabäerbuch / Barbara Schmitz -- Die Vorstellung vom Tod und den Toten nach Ben Sira / Friedrich Reiterer -- Afterlife in Jubilees : through a covenantal prism / Richard J. Bautch -- Bones, bodies, and resurrection in the Dead Sea scrolls / Mladen Popović -- Resurrection of the body in early rabbinic Judaism / Alan J. Avery-Peck -- Human body and life beyond death in Matthew's Gospel / Wim J.C. Weren -- Leiblichkeit und Auferstehung im Johannesevangelium / Jörg Frey -- "Die Seelen der Geschlachteten" (Offb 6,9)? / Tobias Nicklas -- Dialogues with the archons : the post-mortem encounters of the ascending souls in gnostic texts / Einar Thomassen -- Die Auferstehung des Fleisches in den frühchristlichen Grabinschriften / Jutta Dresken-Weiland -- Why body matters in afterlife / István Czachesz -- Lebendige Tote? / Hubertus Lutterbach
There is surely nothing more numinous or pivotal in life than the experience of death and mortality, and it is necessary for culture and religion to deal with this experience as adequately as possible. Moreover, the treatment of persons dying, the care of corpses, and also hopes in a "life" or a comparable "existence" after death often form decisive keys to the understanding of anthropological presuppositions of the respective social, cultural and religious contexts. The articles in this volume deal with the following questions: What role does human corporality play in the context of dying, death, and resurrection in ancient Judaism, early Christianity and in their respective religious and cultural contexts? What conclusions do the statements about the body, but also the dealing with the body allow regarding the respective anthropological ideas in concrete social, cultural and religious contexts? The main focus of the volume lies on early Jewish and ancient Christian texts of the 3rd century B.C.E. until the 3rd century C.E. Some essays, however, deal with other traditions like the religion of Ptolemaic Egypt, Zoroastrism or ancient Gnosis
