Dlaczego Jezus nie zezwalał na opłakiwanie zmarłych? Biblijne przykłady reakcji na śmierć bliskiej osoby

Abstract

The article is an attempt to interpret Jesus’ sayings concerning grief and also the early Christians’ demeanour in front of death. We try to show it at the background of ancient Near East culture (like Epic of Gilgamesh, ugaritic stories of Baal) and of the Old Testament. It’s an anthropological and cultural point of view concentrating on existential attitudes and individual ways of experiencing close persons’ death rather than on funeral rites. This review allows seeing Jesus’ and Christians’ demeanour as a result of transforming cultural interpretation of death by the ideas of eternal life and resurrection of the body.