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The Fate of the Dead in Early Third Century North African Christianity

Year: 2014

Type: book

Abstract: How did the hope of earliest Christianity shift from a hope principally in a resurrection of the body at the end of the world to the idea of the immediate ascent of the soul at death? Eliezer Gonzalez analyzes how the Passion of Perpetua provides us with early literary evidence of an environment in which the Graeco-Roman and Christian cults of the dead appear to be very much aligned.

Source: Mohr Siebeck eBooks

DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-152945-0

Author: Eliezer Gonzalez

Institution: Macquarie University

Language: German

Topic: Biblical Studies and Interpretation

Subfield: Religious studies

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

OpenAlex ID: W2895269520

FWCI: 1.154

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