Ancient Roots of Creation and Afterlife Beliefs
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Elektronische Ressource
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Peter Lang Publishing, Incorporated
Ort:
New York
Entstehungszeit:
2022
Sprache:
Englisch
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Abstract:
Interdisciplinary and cross-cultural research, aided by linguistics, archaeology, and prehistoric and historic data, provides a view of sacred and secular life in ancient times.
Cover -- HalfTitle -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations and Symbols -- 1 The Background -- Introduction -- Religion and Myth -- The Near East -- Indo-Europeans -- Indo-Iranians -- 2 Near East: Egypt and Mesopotamia -- Geography and Myths -- Egyptian Creation and the Life After -- Mesopotamian Genesis and Hereafter -- Great Floods and Restorations -- Canaanite-Ugaritic Myths -- Hebrew-Christian Views -- 3 Indo-Europeans -- Homeland, Migration, and Archeology -- Indivisible Secular and Sacred Life -- Sacrifice and Creation -- Death, Rebirth and Eschatology -- 4 Old Europe -- Hybridization of Ideologies -- Birth, Death, and Regeneration -- Disintegration and Reintegration -- 5 Indo-Iranians -- Unity and Divergences -- Expansions and Contractions -- Religio-Cultural Perspectives -- Death and Retribution -- 6 Vedic Indians -- Contextual Worldviews -- Creation and Destruction -- Ethical Existence -- World Beyond -- 7 Zoroastrian Iranians -- History and Textual Sources -- Genesis of Dualism -- Good and Evil -- Last Things and Apocalypse -- Afterword -- Bibliography.
Cover -- HalfTitle -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations and Symbols -- 1 The Background -- Introduction -- Religion and Myth -- The Near East -- Indo-Europeans -- Indo-Iranians -- 2 Near East: Egypt and Mesopotamia -- Geography and Myths -- Egyptian Creation and the Life After -- Mesopotamian Genesis and Hereafter -- Great Floods and Restorations -- Canaanite-Ugaritic Myths -- Hebrew-Christian Views -- 3 Indo-Europeans -- Homeland, Migration, and Archeology -- Indivisible Secular and Sacred Life -- Sacrifice and Creation -- Death, Rebirth and Eschatology -- 4 Old Europe -- Hybridization of Ideologies -- Birth, Death, and Regeneration -- Disintegration and Reintegration -- 5 Indo-Iranians -- Unity and Divergences -- Expansions and Contractions -- Religio-Cultural Perspectives -- Death and Retribution -- 6 Vedic Indians -- Contextual Worldviews -- Creation and Destruction -- Ethical Existence -- World Beyond -- 7 Zoroastrian Iranians -- History and Textual Sources -- Genesis of Dualism -- Good and Evil -- Last Things and Apocalypse -- Afterword -- Bibliography.
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