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Commemorating the Dead analyzes and interprets the material remains of Roman period burials in light of ancient texts. Is the move from columbaria to catacombs the result of evolving religious identities or simply a matter of a change in fashions? What Greco-Roman and Jewish funerary images were "baptized" as Christian ones? In Commemorating the Dead, archaeologists, Roman historians, and scholars of Judaism and Early Christianity engage in a cross-disciplinary conversation on the impact of Roman and Jewish burial customs on the creation of early Christian memorial practices.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Commemorating the Dead
• Subtitle: Texts and Artifacts in Context. Studies of Roman, Jewish and Christian Burials. Vorwort: Saller, Richard
• Author: Laurie Brink, Deborah Green
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 400
• EAN: 9783110200546
• ISBN: 3110200546
• ID: 02919756
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Weight: 754 g
• Dimensions: 238 × 160 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 20. May 2008

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