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Book Synopsis The City of the Moon God by : Tamara M. Green
Download or read book The City of the Moon God written by Tamara M. Green and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study treats the religious and intellectual history of the city of Harran (Eastern Turkey) from biblical times down to the establishment of Islam. The author starts from the well-known reference in the Qur'an and the early Islamic histories to the people of Harran as Sabians, one of the 'peoples of the book.' The author unravels strands of religious tradition in Harran that run from the old Semitic planetary cults through Hellenistic hermeticism, gnosticism, and Neo-Pythagoreanism and Christian cults to esoteric Islamic sects such as the Sufis and Shiites.
Download or read book SABIAN MYSTERIES written by James Burgess and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commentary on the Sabian Symbols work of Marc Edmund Jones, including descriptions of 360 degrees of the zodiac.
Book Synopsis Old-Syriac (Edessean) Inscriptions by : H. J. W. Drijvers
Download or read book Old-Syriac (Edessean) Inscriptions written by H. J. W. Drijvers and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-21 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Semitic study series by : Richard James Horatio Gottheil
Download or read book Semitic study series written by Richard James Horatio Gottheil and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Cygnus Mystery by : Andrew Collines
Download or read book The Cygnus Mystery written by Andrew Collines and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cygnus Constellation holds the key to proving that life originated in the heavens—and will ultimately return there. Best-selling author Andrew Collins has uncovered an astronomy that is about 17,000 years old, with standing stones, temples, and monuments across the globe oriented towards Cygnus’s stars. He also found that the use of deep caves by Palaeolithic man led to the rise of religious thought and the belief in life’s stellar origins. Now modern-day technology has confirmed that high-energy particles come from a binary star known as Cygnus X3. Ancient people knew what science is finally verifying: that the DNA of life came originally from deep space.
Book Synopsis The Critical Qur'an by : Robert Spencer
Download or read book The Critical Qur'an written by Robert Spencer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 1271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique resource for understanding the Islamic Holy Book. As Islamic terrorism becomes a distressingly common feature of life in North America and Europe, it has become increasingly important for non-Muslims to be aware of the ideology that animates and motivates jihad violence and Sharia oppression of women and others—an ideology that’s rooted in Islam’s holy book, the Qur’an. English-speaking people, however, have found attempts to understand the Qur’an and Islam impeded by unclear, densely worded translations and explanatory notes written by Islamic apologists attempting to conceal, rather than reveal, how Islamic jihadis use the texts and teachings of the Qur’an to justify violence and supremacism, and to make recruits of peaceful Muslims. The Critical Qur’an, in contrast, makes clear the passages that are used to incite violence. Historian and Islamic scholar Robert Spencer elucidates the Qur’anic text with extensive references to the principal tafsir, or commentaries, that mainstream Muslims use today to understand the Qur’an, showing how interpretations that sanction violence are unfortunately not outliers, but central in Islamic theology. The Critical Qur’an is the Islamic counterpart to numerous critical and skeptical editions of the Bible that have appeared over the last century and more. It is the one edition of Islam’s book that doesn’t shy away from elucidating why the holy book of Islam is so frequently quoted and referred to with reverence by people who commit and/or justify acts of violence. It is a basic resource for everyone who wishes to understand the persistent phenomenon of Islamic terrorism, and the peculiar provenance of this most provocative book.
Book Synopsis Cults and Beliefs at Edessa by : H. J. W. Drijvers
Download or read book Cults and Beliefs at Edessa written by H. J. W. Drijvers and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-08-24 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary material -- INTRODUCTION -- EDESSA'S HISTORY AND CULTURE -- THE SOURCES FOR THE STUDY OF EDESSA'S RELIGION -- THE CULT OF NEBO AND BEL -- THE CULT OF ATARGATIS -- THE CULT OF SIN LORD OF THE GODS AT SUMATAR HARABESI -- THE CULT OF AZIZOS AND MONIMOS AND OTHER ARAB DEITIES -- EDESSAN RELIGION, PAGANISM IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE, AND EARLY CHRISTIANITY -- INDEX -- LIST OF PLATES -- PLATES I-XXXIV.
Book Synopsis The Myth of the Phoenix According to Classical and Early Christian Traditions by : Roel B. van den Broek
Download or read book The Myth of the Phoenix According to Classical and Early Christian Traditions written by Roel B. van den Broek and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-11-16 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary material -- INTRODUCTION -- THE EGYPTIAN BENU AND THE CLASSICAL PHOENIX -- A COPTIC TEXT ON THE PHOENIX -- THE NAME PHOENIX -- LIFESPAN AND APPEARANCES -- THE DEATH AND REBIRTH OF THE PHOENIX -- THE PHOENIX AS BIRD OF THE SUN -- THE ABODE -- THE FOOD -- THE SEX -- THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MYTH OF THE PHOENIX SOME CONCLUSIONS -- THE PHOENIX IN CLASSICAL AND EARLY CHRISTIAN ART -- BIBLICAL AND JEWISH TEXTS -- CORRIGENDA ET ADDENDA -- Maps I and II.
Book Synopsis Studien zur Religion und Kultur Kleinasiens, Volume 1 by : Elmar Schwertheim
Download or read book Studien zur Religion und Kultur Kleinasiens, Volume 1 written by Elmar Schwertheim and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-08-24 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Companion to Second-Century Christian 'Heretics' by : Antti Marjanen
Download or read book A Companion to Second-Century Christian 'Heretics' written by Antti Marjanen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005-07-01 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book illuminates “the other side” of early Christianity by examining thinkers and movements that were embraced by many second-century religious seekers as legitimate forms of Christianity, but which are now largely forgotten, or are known only from the characteristics attributed to them in the writings of their main adversaries. The collection deals with the following teachers and movements: Basilides, Sethianism, Valentinus’ school, Marcion, Tatian, Bardaisan, Montanists, Cerinthus, Ebionites, Nazarenes, Jewish-Christianity of the Pseudo-Clementines, and Elchasites. Where appropriate, the authors have included an overview of the life and significant publications of the “heretics,” along with a description of their theologies and movements. Therefore, this volume can serve as a handbook of the second-century “heretics” and their “heresies.” Since all the chapters have been written by specialists who wrestle daily with their research themes, the contributions also offer new perspectives and insights stimulating further discussion on this fascinating—but often neglected—side of early Christianity.
Book Synopsis Did Muhammad Exist? by : Robert Spencer
Download or read book Did Muhammad Exist? written by Robert Spencer and published by Bombardier Books. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there any sound historical evidence that the prophet of Islam actually existed, or is the entire story of Muhammad fable or fiction? It is a question that few have thought—or dared—to ask. Virtually everyone, Muslim and non-Muslim alike, takes for granted that the prophet of Islam lived as a prophet, as well as a political and military leader, in seventh-century Arabia. But this widely accepted story begins to crumble on close examination. In his blockbuster New York Times bestseller The Truth about Muhammad, historian and Islam expert Robert Spencer revealed the often shocking contents of Islamic teachings about Muhammad. Now, in this newly revised and expanded version of Did Muhammad Exist?, he lays bare those teachings’ surprisingly shaky historical foundations. This updated and enlarged version of this acclaimed book examines even more striking and compelling evidence that the story of Muhammad, who for so long was assumed to have lived in the “full light of history,” could be more myth and legend than historical fact. Spencer meticulously examines historical records and archaeological findings, pioneering new scholarship to reconstruct what we can know about Muhammad, the Qur’an, and the early days of Islam. The evidence he presents challenges the most fundamental assumptions about Islam’s origins.
Book Synopsis Science and Civilisation in China by : Joseph Needham
Download or read book Science and Civilisation in China written by Joseph Needham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Law and Religion between Petra and Edessa by : John Healey
Download or read book Law and Religion between Petra and Edessa written by John Healey and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thousands of surviving inscriptions in Middle Aramaic (e.g., in the Nabataean, Syriac and Palmyrene dialects) are an underused resource in the study of the Near East in the Roman period, especially in the study of religion and law. Particularly important was the emergence during this period of new peoples with their cultural roots in Arabia, such as the Nabataeans. This volume collects together, under the interrelated themes of religion and law, twenty-three articles by John Healey, with sections on "Petra and Nabataean Aramaic", "Edessa and Early Syriac" and "Aramaic and Society in the Roman Near East". Individual papers discuss the continuation of "Ancient Near Eastern" culture, the Aramaic legal tradition as well as the development of both written and spoken forms of Syriac and Nabatean.
Book Synopsis King Lucius of Britain by : David J Knight
Download or read book King Lucius of Britain written by David J Knight and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-10-24 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While everyone knows the story of King Arthur, few will have heard of King Lucius, a figure who has been consigned to myth and largely forgotten in the annals of British history. Examining the primary sources as well as the archaeological evidence for this second century king, David Knight convincingly refutes the generally accepted view expounded at the beginning of the twentieth century that identifies Lucius as King Abgarus of Edessa. He reconstructs the story of this fascinating figure, who applied to the Pope for formal baptism in AD 177, making him the first Christian King in Britain, and traces the history of the story of Lucius, separating the myth from reality and attempting to restore this King to his rightful place in British history.
Book Synopsis Christianity and Paganism in the Fourth to Eighth Centuries by : Ramsay MacMullen
Download or read book Christianity and Paganism in the Fourth to Eighth Centuries written by Ramsay MacMullen and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The slaughter of animals for religious feasts, the tinkling of bells to ward off evil during holy rites, the custom of dancing in religious services--these and many other pagan practices persisted in the Christian church for hundreds of years after Constantine proclaimed Christianity the one official religion of Rome. In this book, Ramsay MacMullen investigates the transition from paganism to Christianity between the fourth and eighth centuries. He reassesses the triumph of Christianity, contending that it was neither tidy nor quick, and he shows that the two religious systems were both vital during an interactive period that lasted far longer than historians have previously believed. MacMullen explores the influences of paganism and Christianity upon each other. In a rich discussion of the different strengths of the two systems, he demonstrates that pagan beliefs were not eclipsed or displaced by Christianity but persisted or were transformed. The victory of the Christian church, he explains, was one not of obliteration but of widening embrace and assimilation. This fascinating book also includes new material on the Christian persecution of pagans over the centuries through methods that ranged from fines to crucifixion; the mixture of motives in conversion; the stubbornness of pagan resistance; the difficulty of satisfying the demands and expectations of new converts; and the degree of assimilation of Christianity to paganism.
Book Synopsis Hellenic Religion and Christianization c. 370-529, Volume I by : Trombley
Download or read book Hellenic Religion and Christianization c. 370-529, Volume I written by Trombley and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work discusses the decline of Greek religion and the christianization of town and countryside in the eastern Roman Empire between the death of Julian the Apostate and the laws of Justinian the Great against paganism, c. 370-529. It examines such questions as the effect of the laws against sacrifice and sorcery, temple conversions, the degradation of pagan gods into daimones, the christianization of rite, and the social, political and economic background of conversion to Christianity. Several local contexts are examined in great detail: Gaza, Athens, Alexandria, Aphrodisias, central Asia Minor, northern Syria, the Nile basin, and the province of Arabia. It lays particular emphasis on the criticism of epigraphy, legal evidence, and hagiographic texts, and traces the demographic growth of Christianity and the chronology of this process in select local contexts. It also seeks to understand the behavioral patterns of conversion.
Book Synopsis The Old Syriac Inscriptions of Edessa and Osrhoene by : Han J.W. Drijvers
Download or read book The Old Syriac Inscriptions of Edessa and Osrhoene written by Han J.W. Drijvers and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-11-14 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains all the known Old Syriac inscriptions from Edessa and the area around Osrhoene in Northern Mesopotamia from the first three centuries C.E., the number of which has substantially increased over the last decades. The texts are given in estrangelo script and are accompanied by an extensive philological and historical commentary. The originals are presented in photographs and line drawings. The volume also contains chapters on the script of these inscriptions, on the language and on the history and culture of Edessa. Two appendices offer the texts of three parchments written in Syriac and originating from the same area, and of known but still unpublished inscriptions. The book concludes with indices of words and proper names, which are complement to the Dictionary of the North-West Semitic Inscriptions (Brill, 1995), and with a full bibliography.
