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Author : Martin Persson Nilsson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 7 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (633 download)
Download or read book The New Conception of the Universe in Late Greek Paganism written by Martin Persson Nilsson and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : E. R. Dodds
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521385992
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (859 download)
Download or read book Pagan and Christian in an Age of Anxiety written by E. R. Dodds and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1965 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interest in the world of Late Antiquity is currently undergoing a significant revival, and in this provocative book, now reissued in paperback, E. R. Dodds anticipated some of the themes now engaging scholars. There is abundant material for the study of religious experience in late antiquity, and through it Professor Dodds examines, from a sociological and psychological standpoint, the personal religious attitudes and experiences common to pagans and Christians in the period between Marcus Aurelius and Constantine. He looks first at general attitudes to the world and the human condition before turning to specific types of human experience. World-hatred and asceticism, dreams and states of possession, and pagan and Christian mysticism are all discussed. Finally Dodds considers both pagan views of Christianity and Christian views of paganism as they emerge in the literature of the time. Although primarily written for social and religious historians, this study will also appeal to all those interested in the ancient world and its thought.
Author : Eric R. Dodds
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520931270
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book The Greeks and the Irrational written by Eric R. Dodds and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this philosophy classic, which was first published in 1951, E. R. Dodds takes on the traditional view of Greek culture as a triumph of rationalism. Using the analytical tools of modern anthropology and psychology, Dodds asks, "Why should we attribute to the ancient Greeks an immunity from 'primitive' modes of thought which we do not find in any society open to our direct observation?" Praised by reviewers as "an event in modern Greek scholarship" and "a book which it would be difficult to over-praise," The Greeks and the Irrational was Volume 25 of the Sather Classical Lectures series.
Author : Scott Noegel
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271046006
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Prayer, Magic, and the Stars in the Ancient and Late Antique World written by Scott Noegel and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the religious systems of ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Mediterranean, gods and demigods were neither abstract nor distant, but communicated with mankind through signs and active intervention. Men and women were thus eager to interpret, appeal to, and even control the gods and their agents. In Prayer, Magic, and the Stars in the Ancient and Late Antique World, a distinguished array of scholars explores the many ways in which people in the ancient world sought to gain access to--or, in some cases, to bind or escape from--the divine powers of heaven and earth. Grounded in a variety of disciplines, including Assyriology, Classics, and early Islamic history, the fifteen essays in this volume cover a broad geographic area: Greece, Egypt, Syria-Palestine, Mesopotamia, and Persia. Topics include celestial divination in early Mesopotamia, the civic festivals of classical Athens, and Christian magical papyri from Coptic Egypt. Moving forward to Late Antiquity, we see how Judaism, Christianity, and Islam each incorporated many aspects of ancient Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman religion into their own prayers, rituals, and conceptions. Even if they no longer conceived of the sun, moon, and the stars as eternal or divine, Christians, Jews, and Muslims often continued to study the movements of the heavens as a map on which divine power could be read. The reader already familiar with studies of ancient religion will find in Prayer, Magic, and the Stars both old friends and new faces. Contributors include Gideon Bohak, Nicola Denzey, Jacco Dieleman, Radcliffe Edmonds, Marvin Meyer, Michael G. Morony, Ian Moyer, Francesca Rochberg, Jonathan Z. Smith, Mark S. Smith, Peter Struck, Michael Swartz, and Kasia Szpakowska. Published as part of Penn State's Magic in History series, Prayer, Magic, and the Stars appears at a time of renewed interest in divination and occult practices in the ancient world. It will interest a wide audience in the field of comparative religion as well as students of the ancient world and late antiquity.
Author : Eric Robertson Dodds
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Greeks and the Irrational written by Eric Robertson Dodds and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1956 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Antonia Tripolitis
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802849137
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (491 download)
Download or read book Religions of the Hellenistic-Roman Age written by Antonia Tripolitis and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This insightful read traces the development of the principal Western religions and their philosophical counterparts from the beginnings of Alexander the Great's empire in 331 B.C.E. to the emergence of the Christian world in the fourth century C.E.
Author : Parrott
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004438858
Total Pages : 575 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Nag Hammadi Codices V, 2-5 and VI with Papyrus Berolinensis 8502, 1 and 4 written by Parrott and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary Material --Foreword /James M. Robinson --Preface /Douglas M. Parrott --Table of Tractates in the Coptic Gnostic Library /Douglas M. Parrott --Abbreviations and Short Titles /Douglas M. Parrott --Textual Signs /Douglas M. Parrott --Introduction /Douglas M. Parrott --Codicological Analysis of Nag Hammadi Codices V and VI and Papyrus Berolinensis 8502 /James M. Robinson --NHC V,2: The Apocalypse of Paul /William R. Murdock and George W. MacRae --NHC V,3: The (First) Apocalypse of James /William R. Schoedel --NHC V,4: The (Second) Apocalypse of James /Charles W. Hedrick --NHC V,5: The Apocalypse of Adam /George W. MacRae --NHC VI,1: The Acts of Peter and the Twelve Apostles /R. McL. Wilson and Douglas M. Parrott --NHC VI,2: The Thunder: Perfect Mind /George W. MacRae --NHC VI,3: Authoritative Teaching /George W. MacRae --NHC VI,4: The Concept of Our Great Power /Frederik Wisse and Francis E. Williams --NHC VI,5: Plato, Republic 588b-589b /James Brashler --NHC VI,6: The Discourse on the Eighth and Ninth /Peter A. Dirkse , James Brashler , and Douglas M. Parrott --NHC VI,7: The Prayer of Thanksgiving /Peter A. Dirkse and James Brashler --NHC VI,7a: Scribal Note /Douglas M. Parrott --NHC VI,8: Asclepius 21-29 /Peter A. Dirkse and Douglas M. Parrott --BG,1: The Gospel of Mary /R. McL. Wilson and George W. MacRae --BG,4: The Act of Peter /James Brashler and Douglas M. Parrott --Word Indices /Douglas M. Parrott --References to Ancient Works and Authors /Douglas M. Parrott.
Author : Jonathan Z Smith
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004667466
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Map Is Not Territory written by Jonathan Z Smith and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-07-17 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004411615
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Philo of Alexandria and Greek Myth written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-10-07 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Philo of Alexandria and Greek Myth: Narratives, Allegories, and Arguments, a fresh and more complete image of Philo of Alexandria as a careful reader, interpreter, and critic of Greek literature is offered. Greek mythology plays a significant role in Philo of Alexandria’s exegetical oeuvre. Philo explicitly adopts or subtly evokes narratives, episodes and figures from Greek mythology as symbols whose didactic function we need to unravel, exactly as the hidden teaching of Moses’ narration has to be revealed by interpreters of Bible. By analyzing specific mythologems and narrative cycles, the contributions to this volume pave the way to a better understanding of Philo’s different attitudes towards literary and philosophical mythology.
Author : Paula Fredriksen
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300164106
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book From Jesus to Christ written by Paula Fredriksen and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Magisterial. . . . A learned, brilliant and enjoyable study."—Géza Vermès, Times Literary Supplement In this exciting book, Paula Fredriksen explains the variety of New Testament images of Jesus by exploring the ways that the new Christian communities interpreted his mission and message in light of the delay of the Kingdom he had preached. This edition includes an introduction reviews the most recent scholarship on Jesus and its implications for both history and theology. "Brilliant and lucidly written, full of original and fascinating insights."—Reginald H. Fuller, Journal of the American Academy of Religion "This is a first-rate work of a first-rate historian."—James D. Tabor, Journal of Religion "Fredriksen confronts her documents—principally the writings of the New Testament—as an archaeologist would an especially rich complex site. With great care she distinguishes the literary images from historical fact. As she does so, she explains the images of Jesus in terms of the strategies and purposes of the writers Paul, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John."—Thomas D’Evelyn, Christian Science Monitor
Author : Jörg Rüpke
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199674507
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book The Individual in the Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean written by Jörg Rüpke and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-08-29 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the Hellenistic and Imperial periods in both pagan polytheistic as well as Jewish monotheistic settings, this edited collection focuses on individuation in everyday religious practices across the ancient Mediterranean as identified in institutional developments and philosophical reflections on the self.
Author : Naomi Janowitz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134633688
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)
Download or read book Magic in the Roman World written by Naomi Janowitz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively volume exploring the use and abuse of the word 'magic' in late antique texts.
Author : Paul Graindor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Byzantion written by Paul Graindor and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes section "Comptes rendus".
Author : Coblentz Bautch
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047402251
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)
Download or read book A Study of the Geography of 1 Enoch 17-19 written by Coblentz Bautch and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2003-11-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study of the Geography of 1 Enoch 17-19 examines the travels of the patriarch Enoch who is given a guided tour of extraordinary and at times terrifying places located throughout the cosmos. Coblentz Bautch clarifies the text of 1 Enoch 17-19 by explaining how the sites described relate to one another geographically and by reconstructing the mental map of the geography that lies behind the textual descriptions. Especially provocative is the consideration of sources from the ancient Near East, Hebrew Bible and the world of Hellenistic Judaism that may have informed the world view of 1 Enoch 17-19 and parallel traditions. Through this study an important facet of apocalypses is illumined: their portrayal of geography and sacred space.
Author : James Constantine Hanges
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 9783161507168
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Paul, Founder of Churches written by James Constantine Hanges and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2012 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expanded from the author's dissertation--University of Chicago, 1999.
Author : Roger French
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134962673
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)
Download or read book Ancient Natural History written by Roger French and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-08 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Natural History surveys the ways in which people in the ancient world thought about nature. The writings of Aristotle, Theophrastus, Strabo, Pliny are examined, as well as the popular beliefs of their contemporaries. Roger French finds that the same natural-historical material was used to serve the purposes of both the Greek philosopher and the Christian allegorist, or of a taxonomist like Theophrastus and a collector of curiosa like Pliny. He argues convincingly that the motives of ancient writers on nature were rarely `scientific' and, indeed, that there was not really any science at all in the ancient world. This book will make fascinating reading for students, academics and anyone who is interested in the history of science, or in the ancient history of ideas.
Author : Johannes Dillinger
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000765741
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Routledge History of Witchcraft written by Johannes Dillinger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge History of Witchcraft is a comprehensive and interdisciplinary study of the belief in witches from antiquity to the present day, providing both an introduction to the subject of witchcraft and an overview of the on-going debates. This extensive collection covers the entire breadth of the history of witchcraft, from the witches of Ancient Greece and medieval demonology through to the victims of the witch hunts, and onwards to children’s books, horror films, and modern pagans. Drawing on the knowledge and expertise of an international team of authors, the book examines differing concepts of witchcraft that still exist in society and explains their historical, literary, religious, and anthropological origin and development, including the reflections and adaptions of this belief in art and popular culture. The volume is divided into four chronological parts, beginning with Antiquity and the Middle Ages in Part One, Early Modern witch hunts in Part Two, modern concepts of witchcraft in Part Three, and ending with an examination of witchcraft and the arts in Part Four. Each chapter offers a glimpse of a different version of the witch, introducing the reader to the diversity of witches that have existed in different contexts throughout history. Exploring a wealth of texts and case studies and offering a broad geographical scope for examining this fascinating subject, The Routledge History of Witchcraft is essential reading for students and academics interested in the history of witchcraft.
