Ancient West & East

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004496742
Total Pages : 215 pages
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Book Synopsis Ancient West & East by : G.R. Tsetskhladze

Download or read book Ancient West & East written by G.R. Tsetskhladze and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Nile Into Tiber

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004154205
Total Pages : 591 pages
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Book Synopsis Nile Into Tiber by : Laurent Bricault

Download or read book Nile Into Tiber written by Laurent Bricault and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Egypt in the Roman world" --- Studies on the meaning of Aegyptiaca Romana and the understanding of the cults of Isis in their local context.

Panthée: Religious Transformations in the Graeco-Roman Empire

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004256903
Total Pages : 397 pages
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Download or read book Panthée: Religious Transformations in the Graeco-Roman Empire written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-09-12 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Panthée presents a collective reflection relating to the changes that affected the Graeco-Roman Empire and over the long term altered its religious landscapes. Fifty years after the foundation of the series EPRO, the volume aims to avoid the division between the supposedly "Roman" or "Graeco-Roman" and the "Oriental" by linking the available information relating the different major areas, such as the relation between local and global, the place of emotions in relation to soteriological and initiatory aspects, strategies of integration and negotiation of identities. For the first time the leading specialists in every field bring their approaches into contact with one another, and jointly construct a picture of practices and conceptual frames, which, in their diversity and inter-action, model a religious universe whose complexity will help to understand our modern globalising world. Panthée propose une réflexion collective sur les mutations qui ont affecté l'Empire gréco-romain et ont progressivement remodelé ses paysages religieux. Cinquante ans après la création de la collection des EPRO, ce livre ambitionne de dépasser le clivage entre ce qui serait "romain", ou "gréco-romain", et ce qui serait "oriental" en articulant les données disponibles autour de quelques thèmes majeurs, comme les jeux d'échelle entre local et universel, la place du registre des émotions en relation avec les dimensions sotériologiques et mystériques, les stratégies d'intégration et de négociation des identités. Pour la première fois, les meilleurs spécialistes venus de tous les horizons croisent leurs approches et construisent ensemble un tableau des pratiques et des cadres de pensée qui, dans leur diversité et dans leur interaction, dessinent les contours d'un univers religieux dont la complexité aide à penser le monde moderne de la globalisation.

Religious Diversity in Late Antiquity

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004180001
Total Pages : 584 pages
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Book Synopsis Religious Diversity in Late Antiquity by : David Morton Gwynn

Download or read book Religious Diversity in Late Antiquity written by David Morton Gwynn and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume in the ongoing Late Antique Archaeology series draws on material and textual evidence to explore the diverse religious world of Late Antiquity. Subjects include Jews and Samaritans, orthodoxy and heresy, pilgrimage, stylites, magic, the sacred and the secular.

Rabbinisme et Paganisme en Palestine romaine

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047408276
Total Pages : 472 pages
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Book Synopsis Rabbinisme et Paganisme en Palestine romaine by : E. Friedheim

Download or read book Rabbinisme et Paganisme en Palestine romaine written by E. Friedheim and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006-07-01 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study deals essentially with the knowledge of the Palestinian Rabbis concerning paganism in the days of Mishna and Talmud. The Late Professor Saul Lieberman wrote that “Many isolated items on idolatry and idol worshippers are scattered all over rabbinic literature. It would require a large volume to treat this topic”. This valuable and exhaustive study proves methodically that the Rabbis had deeper knowledge about Syrian, Arabian, Anatolian and Graeco-Roman Pagan cults than is commonly believed. Clear, accessible and displaying considerable scholarship this work will undoubtedly provide an important challenge to both historians, archaeologists, and scholars of Rabbinic texts. *** Cette étude traite essentiellement du niveau de connaissances des Rabbins de Judée et de Galilée concernant les cultes païens dans le sens le plus large du terme. Le Professeur Saul Lieberman affirmait : “Many isolated items on idolatry and idol worshippers are scattered all over rabbinic literature. It would require a large volume to treat this topic” Ce travail exhaustif, à travers l’ensemble du corpus talmudique et au regard de la réalité historique propre à la Palestine romaine, montre méthodiquement que les connaissances des Sages, tant sur les divinités du paganisme que sur des rites syriens, arabes, anatoliens voire gréco-romains, étaient bien plus vastes et approfondies, que ce qu’il est communément admis aujourd’hui par la recherche historique. De part sa clareté et son accessibilité, ce livre intéressera aussi bien les historiens du peuple juif, que ceux des religions antiques. Les archéologues, les historiens du Levant à l’époque romaine, ainsi que les spécialistes de la littérature talmudique y trouveront également un vif intérêt en vertu de son aspect extrêmement novateur.

Index

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Publisher : Presses Univ. Franche-Comté
ISBN 13 : 9782251605753
Total Pages : 152 pages
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Book Synopsis Index by : Pierre Lévêque

Download or read book Index written by Pierre Lévêque and published by Presses Univ. Franche-Comté. This book was released on 1995 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Egyptian Solar Religion in the New Kingdom

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136158995
Total Pages : 244 pages
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Book Synopsis Egyptian Solar Religion in the New Kingdom by : Jan Assmann

Download or read book Egyptian Solar Religion in the New Kingdom written by Jan Assmann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised and expanded, this volume deals with the religious traditions of ancient Egypt, which have come down to us in a state which is both extremely fragmentary and complex. New material - especially hymns collected in Theban tombs - now allows a much more precise allocation of religious texts and ideas in terms of time, place and social context. Within the field of solar religion, no less than five different traditions have to be distinguished: 1) the liturgical traditions of the royal solar cult, which for their secrecy and exclusivity are labelled the "mysteries" of the sun cult; 2) the traditional mythology of the solar course expressed in hymns and pictorial representations; 3) the revolutionary process culminating in the Amarna period, which discards the mythic images and gives a monotheistic construction of the solar course, a process which starts before Akhenaten's revolution; 4) the theology of Amun-Re, the God of Thebes, before the Amarna Period, a theology of primacy where one god acts as chief of a pantheon; and 5) the quite different theology of this same Amun-Re after Amarna, a theology which answers the monotheistic experience by developing a kind of pantheism - the concept of the hidden god - who is both cosmic god and personal saviour.

Colonial Religion and Indigenous Society in the Archaic Western Mediterranean, C. 750-400 BCE

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Publisher : Stanford University
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 386 pages
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Book Synopsis Colonial Religion and Indigenous Society in the Archaic Western Mediterranean, C. 750-400 BCE by : Lela Manning Urquhart

Download or read book Colonial Religion and Indigenous Society in the Archaic Western Mediterranean, C. 750-400 BCE written by Lela Manning Urquhart and published by Stanford University. This book was released on 2010 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This project examines the long-term responses of indigenous societies in Sicily and Sardinia to colonial religion in the ancient western Mediterranean. It conducts a comparative analysis of religious developments among indigenous, Greek, and Phoenician communities between the 8th and 5th centuries BC. It shows that while indigenous communities near Greek colonies in Sicily integrated Greek-style material culture and practices into their religious lives, those near Phoenician colonies in Sardinia and Sicily showed much less interest in Phoenician material culture and religion. This contrast is then explained in terms of the greater social accessibility and more communal features of Greek polis religion, which made its practices and material culture broadly attractive across cultural divides in a time of rapid social change.

The Roman Empire

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520060678
Total Pages : 244 pages
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Book Synopsis The Roman Empire by : Peter Garnsey

Download or read book The Roman Empire written by Peter Garnsey and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1987-06-12 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the first, stable period of the Principate (roughly from 27 BC to AD 235), when the empire reached its maximum extent, Roman society and culture were radically transformed. But how was the vast territory of the empire controlled? Did the demands of central government stimulate economic growth, or endanger survival? What forces of cohesion operated to balance the social and economic inequalities and high mortality rates? Why did Roman governments freeze the official religion while allowing the diffusion of alien, especially oriental, cults? Are we to see in their attitude to Christianity a policy of toleration—or simply confusion and a failure of nerve? These are some of the many questions posed in this book, which offers the first overall account of the society, economy and culture of the Roman empire. Addressed to non-specialist readers no less than to scholars, it breaks with the traditional historian's preoccupation with narrative and politics. As an integrated study of the life and outlook of the ordinary inhabitants of the Roman world, it deepens our understanding of the underlying factors in this important formative period of world history.

Alexandria

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Publisher : Aarhus Universitetsforlag
ISBN 13 : 8779347452
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (793 download)

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Book Synopsis Alexandria by : George Hinge

Download or read book Alexandria written by George Hinge and published by Aarhus Universitetsforlag. This book was released on 2009-12-31 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the entire span of Graeco-Roman antiquity, Alexandria represented a meeting place for many ethnic cultures and the city itself was subject to a wide range of local developments, which created and formatted a distinct Alexandrine 'culture' as well as several distinct 'cultures'. Ancient Greek, Roman and Jewish observers communicated or held claim to that particular message. Hence, Arrian, Theocritus, Strabo, and Athenaeus reported their fascination with the Alexandrine melting pot to the wider world as did Philo, Josephus and Clement. In various fashions, the four papers of Part I of the volume, Alexandria from Greece and Egypt, deal with the relationship between Ptolemaic Alexandria and its Greek past. However, the Egyptian origin and heritage also plays important roles for the arguments. The contributions to the second part of the book are devoted to discussions of various aspects of contact and development between Rome, Judaism and Christianity.

Religion and Colonization in Ancient Greece

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004296700
Total Pages : 316 pages
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Book Synopsis Religion and Colonization in Ancient Greece by : Irad Malkin

Download or read book Religion and Colonization in Ancient Greece written by Irad Malkin and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.-- University of Pennsylvania)

The Hope of Glory

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004267344
Total Pages : 316 pages
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Book Synopsis The Hope of Glory by : Walter Wilson

Download or read book The Hope of Glory written by Walter Wilson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-04-09 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores the background, character, and function of Colossians as a form of theological education and appeal in the Pauline tradition. A historical, literary, rhetorical, and narrative analysis of the text shows how its theological affirmations and claims were presented so as to engage the life of its readers in practical ways and in practical contexts, especially in order to direct their moral formation as Christians and their self-understanding as a Christian community in a time of controversy. The specific strategies adopted by the author in designing his message and instructing the readers are familiar from Hellenistic conventions of moral and spiritual guidance, particularly those conventions associated with philosophic paraenesis, or moral exhortation for recent converts.

Philo of Alexandria and Greek Myth

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004411615
Total Pages : 307 pages
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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.

Moses the Egyptian

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Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674587391
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (745 download)

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Book Synopsis Moses the Egyptian by : Jan Assmann

Download or read book Moses the Egyptian written by Jan Assmann and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1998-10-15 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Standing at the very foundation of monotheism, and so of Western culture, Moses is a figure not of history, but of memory. As such, he is the quintessential subject for the innovative historiography Jan Assmann both defines and practices in this work, the study of historical memory—a study, in this case, of the ways in which factual and fictional events and characters are stored in religious beliefs and transformed in their philosophical justification, literary reinterpretation, philological restitution (or falsification), and psychoanalytic demystification. To account for the complexities of the foundational event through which monotheism was established, Moses the Egyptian goes back to the short-lived monotheistic revolution of the Egyptian king Akhenaten (1360–1340 B.C.E.). Assmann traces the monotheism of Moses to this source, then shows how his followers denied the Egyptians any part in the origin of their beliefs and condemned them as polytheistic idolaters. Thus began the cycle in which every “counter-religion,” by establishing itself as truth, denounced all others as false. Assmann reconstructs this cycle as a pattern of historical abuse, and tracks its permutations from ancient sources, including the Bible, through Renaissance debates over the basis of religion to Sigmund Freud’s Moses and Monotheism. One of the great Egyptologists of our time, and an exceptional scholar of history and literature, Assmann is uniquely equipped for this undertaking—an exemplary case study of the vicissitudes of historical memory that is also a compelling lesson in the fluidity of cultural identity and beliefs."

Portraits of the Ptolemies

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Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292787472
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Book Synopsis Portraits of the Ptolemies by : Paul Edmund Stanwick

Download or read book Portraits of the Ptolemies written by Paul Edmund Stanwick and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As archaeologists recover the lost treasures of Alexandria, the modern world is marveling at the latter-day glory of ancient Egypt and the Greeks who ruled it from the ascension of Ptolemy I in 306 B.C. to the death of Cleopatra the Great in 30 B.C. The abundance and magnificence of royal sculptures from this period testify to the power of the Ptolemaic dynasty and its influence on Egyptian artistic traditions that even then were more than two thousand years old. In this book, Paul Edmund Stanwick undertakes the first complete study of Egyptian-style portraits of the Ptolemies. Examining one hundred and fifty sculptures from the vantage points of literary evidence, archaeology, history, religion, and stylistic development, he fully explores how they meld Egyptian and Greek cultural traditions and evoke surrounding social developments and political events. To do this, he develops a "visual vocabulary" for reading royal portraiture and discusses how the portraits helped legitimate the Ptolemies and advance their ideology. Stanwick also sheds new light on the chronology of the sculptures, giving dates to many previously undated ones and showing that others belong outside the Ptolemaic period.

Acts of the Seventh International Conference of Demotic Studies

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Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
ISBN 13 : 9788772896489
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (964 download)

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Book Synopsis Acts of the Seventh International Conference of Demotic Studies by : Kim Ryholt

Download or read book Acts of the Seventh International Conference of Demotic Studies written by Kim Ryholt and published by Museum Tusculanum Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains contributions from K.T. Zauzich, H.S. Smith, B. Porten, U. Kaplony-Heckel, R.K. Ritner, S. Allam, M. Chauveau, and D. Devauchelle.

Isis en occident

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004132634
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (326 download)

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Book Synopsis Isis en occident by : Laurent Bricault

Download or read book Isis en occident written by Laurent Bricault and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, 16 contributions by specialists of political and religious history of Antiquity give a precious general overview of the diffusion of Egyptian cults in the West. The first part gives a very precise survey of the diffusion of Egyptian cults in the western Roman world, while the second part of the book is devoted to special fields usually considered as subsidiary (numismatics, lychnology, gemmology), but in fact essential for a better understanding of the success of the Isiac cults in the Graeco-Roman world between 330 BC and 400 AD.