Notes on a New Necrology

1974 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 267-273
Author(s):  
Victor W. Marshall
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Know How ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Book Of The Dead

How does one review a book that both succeeds and fails spectacularly, that breaks new ground and then plants what is probably unfertile seed, that rather pretentiously stakes a claim to a “new area” of inquiry while grossly neglecting related extant work? The Twentieth Century Book of the Dead is a difficult book to read that has frustrated, excited, and stimulated me for enough weeks now that, though I still don't know how to review it, I am motivated to offer some advice to the naive reader which might at least assist him to read it (for it is indeed well worth the effort), and to add some comments of my own.

Peace Witness in World War II

Worldview ◽  
1975 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 49-57
Author(s):  
Gordon C. Zahn
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
World War I ◽  
World War ◽  
Reasonable Estimate ◽  
Simple Estimate ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Book Of The Dead ◽  
Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Owen, one of the poetic voices stilled by World War I, chose as his subject “war and the pity of war,” finding his poetry in the pity. It can be argued that even then the pity had gone out of war. It is certain that the events of subsequent wars—large and small, local as well as worldwide—have been so pitiless in character and conduct that little or no “poetry” remains.We are three-quarters through a century of unprecedented violence, with the grim prospect of even greater evils tying ahead. In his Twentieth Century Book of the Dead Gil Eliot offers what he considers a reasonable estimate of 100,000,000 “man-made” deaths since 1900. That figure alone is enough to give us pause. But it is not merely the number of deaths that should concern us here, but who is killed and the manner in which the victims are killed. In World War I, of the ten million or so victims, 90 per cent were soldiers. The carnage of World War II was so great and so indiscriminate that an equally simple estimate is almost impossible to contrive.

Virtual production in 'book of the dead'

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Giordana ◽  
Veselin Efremov ◽  
Gael Sourimant ◽  
Silvia Rasheva ◽  
Natasha Tatarchuk ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Production ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Book Of The Dead

The Book of the Dead

Nature ◽  
1911 ◽  
Vol 86 (2158) ◽  
pp. 37-38
Keyword(s):  
The Dead ◽  
Book Of The Dead

‘Angels Seen Today’. The Theology of Modern Spiritualism and its Impact on Church of England Clergy, 1852–1939

2009 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 360-370 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georgina Byrne
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Church Of England ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Geographical Locations

In 1852 an American medium, Maria Hayden, crossed the Atlantic, landed in London and began offering séances in fashionable salons. From this point on, and certainly well into the twentieth century, spiritualism proved attractive to many. What spiritualism offered was, primarily, an extravagant claim: that it was possible for the living to communicate with the departed. By various means, people from all classes, religious traditions and geographical locations ‘tried’ the spirits, seeking to make contact with famous characters from history or departed family members. Spiritualism offered, sometimes, spectacular signs and wonders: flying furniture, levitating mediums and ghostly presences, all of which attracted the attention of journalists. Fashions for such signs came and went; the claim to communicate with the dead, however, remained at the heart of spiritualism.

The Ultimate Commitment

2021 ◽  
pp. 437-446
Author(s):  
Herbert B. Huffmon
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Near East ◽  
Ancient Near East ◽  
International Treaties ◽  
Central Importance ◽  
New Covenant ◽  
The People ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Book Of The Dead

In the ancient Near East, the “heart” is the center of memory and decision-making, and in Mesopotamian extispicy, the “liver” is the “tablet of the gods” on which the gods inscribe a “true verdict,” providing basic guidance for the people. In international treaties, and especially in Assyrian treaties, emphasis is placed on the importance of “full-hearted” loyalty to the suzerain, going beyond mere “lip service.” The Egyptian “Book of the Dead” likewise emphasizes the central importance of the true testimony of the heart as decisive in the dangerous transit to the afterlife, to becoming an Osiris. These sources combine to emphasize the ultimate commitment expressed by the reference in Jeremiah 31:33 to God’s forthcoming “new covenant” which God will write on the hearts of the people. This is, as it were, a “programming” which transforms them in such a way that they will, by inner necessity, be a loyal people, submitting themselves to God’s guidance and protection.

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