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By Stephen E. Potthoff

The Afterlife in Early Christian Carthage explores how the visionary stories of early Christian martyrs formed and expert early Christian ancestor cult and the development of the cemetery as paradise. Taking the early Christian cemeteries in Carthage as a case research, the quantity broadens our knowing of the old and cultural origins of the early Christian cult of the saints, and highlights the usually divergent perspectives in regards to the lifeless and autopsy geographical regions expressed by means of the church fathers, and in graveside ritual and the cloth tradition of the cemetery. This interesting examine is a key source for college students of past due vintage and early Christian culture.

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