Bring Out Your Dead

About this episode

The episode discusses ancient perspectives on handling dead human bodies and their influence on cemeteries, funerary rites, and religious myths.

What do you do with a dead human body? The ancient world had strong opinions about this, and they showed up not only in their cemeteries and funerary rites but also in the myths central to their religious practice.

People in this episode

Hosts: Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick, Fr. Stephen De Young

Topics covered

• death
• funerary rites
• ancient beliefs
• myths
• religious practices

Keywords

• dead bodies
• ancient world
• cemeteries
• funerary rites
• myths
• religion

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Ancient Faith Ministries

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