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De hemel : een aardse geschiedenis
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ISBN: 9025722989 Year: 1991 Publisher: Haarlem Uitgeverij J.H. Gottmer

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Et après ... vie ou néant? essai sur l'au-delà.
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ISBN: 2220032159 9782220032153 Year: 1991 Publisher: Paris Desclée de Brouwer

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Die Nachtfahrt der Sonne : eine altägyptische Beschreibung des Jenseits.
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ISBN: 3760810365 Year: 1991 Publisher: Zürich Artemis

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Dass der Mensch ganz sei : vom Leid, vom Heil und vom ewigen Leben in Judentum, Christentum und Islam
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ISBN: 3491773741 Year: 1991 Publisher: Düsseldorf Patmos Verlag


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Final judgments : duty and emotion in Roman wills, 200 B.C.-A.D. 250
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ISBN: 0520910397 0585139687 9780520910393 9780585139685 Year: 1991 Publisher: Berkeley, California : University of California Press,

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Freed from the familial and social obligations incumbent on the living, the Roman testator could craft his will to be a literal "last judgment" on family, friends, and society. The Romans were fascinated by the contents of wills, believing the will to be a mirror of the testator's true character and opinions. The wills offer us a unique view of the individual Roman testator's world. Just as classicists, ancient historians, and legal historians will find a mine of information here, the general reader will be fascinated by the book's lively recounting of last testaments. Who were the testators and what were their motives? Why do family, kin, servants, friends, and community all figure in the will, and how are they treated? What sort of afterlife did the Romans anticipate? By examining wills, the book sets several issues in a new light, offering new interpretations of, or new insights into, subjects as diverse as captatio (inheritance-seeking), the structure of the Roman family, the manumission of slaves, public philanthropy, the afterlife and the relation of subject to emperor. Champlin's principal argument is that a strongly felt "duty of testacy" informed and guided most Romans, a duty to reward or punish all who were important to them, a duty which led them to write their wills early in life and to revise them frequently.

The Divine Verdict, : A Study of the Divine Judgement in the Ancient Religions.
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ISSN: 01698834 ISBN: 9004092315 9004378758 9789004092310 9789004378759 Year: 1991 Volume: 52 Publisher: Leiden, Boston: Brill,

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The theme of divine judgement has often been treated, but usually with a concentration on one it its two main aspects: either that which is seen in the present life and in history or that which is believed to occur only after death. This new study seeks to combine the two aspects. It also tries to cover the whole spectrum of the ancient religions. Special attention is given to Israel, Greece, and Egypt. Israel's neighbours are also considered, and there are discussions of Judaism, Christianity, and Zoroastrianism. In several areas, notably in Egypt and Israel, it is shown that punishment in this life is sometimes presented as a fate that man brings upon himself rather than as one imposed by God, though always against a moral background derived from religion. The origins of judgement after death in the Judaeo-Christian tradition are examined in some detail and elements are traced to Egyptian, Zoroastrian, and Judaic sources.


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Hemel, hel en vagevuur : preken over het hiernamaals in de Zuidelijke Nederlanden tijdens de 17de en 18de eeuw.
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ISBN: 9061527376 Year: 1991 Volume: vol 9 Publisher: Leuven Davidsfonds

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