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Book Synopsis Bibliotheca Chaldaica / Band 5 by : Helmut Seng
Download or read book Bibliotheca Chaldaica / Band 5 written by Helmut Seng and published by Universitatsverlag Winter. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zu den Charakteristika spatantiker Philosophie gehort das Interesse fur inspirierte Texte, nicht zuletzt theologische Orakel, die sich mit dem Wesen Gottes oder der Gotter und mit ihrem Wirken im Kosmos befassen. Zu den wichtigsten Sammlungen gehoren die 'Chaldaeischen Orakel', die 'Philosophia ex oraculis haurienda' des Porphyrios, die 'Tubinger Theosophie' und (zum Teil) die 'Sibyllinischen Orakel'; dazu kommen zahlreiche Bezugnahmen bei verschiedenen Autoren, die solche Orakel im Rahmen ihrer Argumentationsstrategien aufnehmen, zum Teil geradezu usurpieren, aber auch zuruckweisen. Neben den Orakeltexten selbst bilden somit auch Phanomene ihrer Rezeption das Thema des vorliegenden Bandes, bis hin zur Literatur der Neuzeit. Dazu tritt die Einordnung in weiter gespannte Kontexte der spatantiken Religiositat und Philosophie.
Book Synopsis Proclus and the Chaldean Oracles by : Nicola Spanu
Download or read book Proclus and the Chaldean Oracles written by Nicola Spanu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the discussion of the Chaldean Oracles in the work of Proclus, as well as offering a translation and commentary of Proclus’ Treatise On Chaldean Philosophy. Spanu assesses whether Proclus’ exegesis of the Chaldean Oracles can be used by modern research to better clarify the content of Chaldean doctrine or must instead be abandoned because it represents a substantial misinterpretation of originary Chaldean teachings. The volume is augmented by Proclus’ Greek text, with English translation and commentary. Proclus and the Chaldean Oracles will be of interest to researchers working on Neoplatonism, Proclus and theurgy in the ancient world.
Book Synopsis Die Chaldaeischen Orakel by : Helmut Seng
Download or read book Die Chaldaeischen Orakel written by Helmut Seng and published by Universitatsverlag Winter. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hans Lewys 1956 in Kairo erschienenes Buch 'Chaldaean Oracles and Theurgy. Mysticism, Magic and Platonism in the later Roman Empire' hat die Erforschung der Chaldaeischen Orakel angeregt wie kaum ein zweites Werk. Das 50. Jahr seit der Veroffentlichung war der Anlass einer Tagung zu den Chaldaeischen Orakeln, die 2006 in Konstanz stattfand. Die im vorliegenden Sammelband enthaltenen Beitrage gehen auf diese Veranstaltung zuruck. Sie beleuchten die Chaldaeischen Orakel in ihrem religios-philosophischen und literarischen Kontext, der etwa die Chaldaeerbilder der romischen Kaiserzeit und die Tubinger Theosophie umfasst. Ferner gehort ihre historische und systematische Interpretation, wie die Verfasserfrage und die Problematik des Monismus, ebenso zur weiteren Erschliessung wie die konkrete Exegese von Einzeltexten (vor allem zu Hekate sowie zu Glaube, Wahrheit, Liebe und Hoffnung). Das breite Spektrum ihrer Rezeption durch pagane und christliche Autoren der Spatantike (Iamblichos, Proklos) und des Mittelalters (Michael Pellos, Nikephoros Gregoras) sowie durch esoterisch gepragte Dichter der Neuzeit wie W. B. Yeats und E. Pound runden die Deutung und das Verstandnis der Chaldaeischen Orakel ab.
Book Synopsis The Specter of the Jews by : Ari Finkelstein
Download or read book The Specter of the Jews written by Ari Finkelstein and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the generation after Constantine the Great elevated Christianity to a dominant position in the Roman Empire, his nephew, the Emperor Julian, sought to reinstate the old gods to their former place of prominence—in the face of intense opposition from the newly powerful Christian church. In early 363 c.e., while living in Syrian Antioch, Julian redoubled his efforts to hellenize the Roman Empire by turning to an unlikely source: the Jews. With a war against Persia on the horizon, Julian thought it crucial that all Romans propitiate the true gods and gain their favor through proper practice. To convince his people, he drew on Jews, whom he characterized as Judeans, using their scriptures, institutions, practices, and heroes sometimes as sources for his program and often as models to emulate. In The Specter of the Jews, Ari Finkelstein examines Julian’s writings and views on Jews as Judeans, a venerable group whose religious practices and values would help delegitimize Christianity and, surprisingly, shape a new imperial Hellenic pagan identity.
Book Synopsis Theurgy in Late Antiquity by : Ilinca Tanaseanu-Döbler
Download or read book Theurgy in Late Antiquity written by Ilinca Tanaseanu-Döbler and published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. This book was released on 2013-05-15 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theurgy is commonly taken to denote a complex of rites which are based on the so-called Chaldean Oracles, a collection of oracles in hexameters, which were probably composed during the late 2nd century AD. These rituals are mostly known through Neoplatonic sources, who engage in a passionate debate about their relevance to the salvation of the soul and thus to the philosopher's ultimate goal. Ilinca Tanaseanu-Döbler examines the development of the discourse on theurgy, attempting to reconstruct what was understood as theurgic ritual in the late antique sources. Withstanding the temptation to impose a unity on the disparate sources which span several centuries, she thus goes beyond the picture of a coherent, extra-philosophical tradition drawn by the Neoplatonists to sketch the variations in the rituals subsumed under 'theurgy' and their function, and shows how every author constructs his own 'theurgy'. This perspective leads to consider theurgy as an example of an 'artificial' ritual tradition, composed from already existing elements to create something claimed as sui generis. Theurgy offers the great opportunity to look at such a tradition from its beginning up to its end and to analyse the mechanisms of inventing and reinventing such a ritual tradition in process.
Book Synopsis The Divine Father by : Felix Albrecht
Download or read book The Divine Father written by Felix Albrecht and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-02-06 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume is devoted to the theme of "Divine Father" in Second Temple Jewish and early Christian tradition and in its ancient pagan contexts. It brings together proceedings of a conference under the same title, held in Göttingen in September 2011. Selected articles by well-known scholars focus on religious and philosophical concepts of divine parenthood in antiquity, from the Hebrew Bible and Second Temple Judaism (the Dead Sea Scrolls, Targums, Philo and Josephus) to the field of the New Testament. In addition, the volume deals with the designation of deity as "father" or "mother" from the broad spectrum of ancient Egypt and classical antiquity (Homer, Hesiod, Plato, and its reception) to late antiquity (Plotinus and Porphyry).
Book Synopsis The Coptic Gnostic Library by : James McConkey Robinson
Download or read book The Coptic Gnostic Library written by James McConkey Robinson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 1042 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Gnostic Library" continues where the Dead Sea Scrolls left off. It is based on the Nag Hammadi codices, which were unearthed in 1945 -- a discovery considered as significant as the Dead Sea Scrolls themselves. The "Coptic Gnostic Library" contains all the texts of the Nag Hammadi codices, both in the original Coptic and in translation. It sheds an invaluable light upon early Judaism and the roots of Christianity. Now available in paperback.
Book Synopsis Neoplatonic Demons and Angels by : Luc Brisson
Download or read book Neoplatonic Demons and Angels written by Luc Brisson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neoplatonic Demons and Angels is a collection of eleven studies which examine, in chronological order, the place reserved for angels and demons not only by the main Neoplatonic philosophers (Plotinus, Porphyry, Iamblichus, and Proclus), but also in Gnosticism, the Chaldaean Oracles, Christian Neoplatonism, especially by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite. This volume originates from a panel held at the 2014 ISNS meeting in Lisbon, but is supplemented by a number of invited papers.
Book Synopsis At the Temple Gates by : Heidi Wendt
Download or read book At the Temple Gates written by Heidi Wendt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Integrates Jewish/Judean and Christian experts into a wider and more diverse class of religious activity Argues that certain Christian forms of religion first took shape within a class of freelance experts.
Book Synopsis Die Chaldäischen Orakel by : Manfred Ehmer
Download or read book Die Chaldäischen Orakel written by Manfred Ehmer and published by tredition. This book was released on 2022-02-21 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Die Epigramme der Chaldäischen Orakel haben schon immer solche Menschen in ihren Bann gezogen, die an magischer Selbstverwirklichung und Aufstieg zu den höheren geistig-göttlichen Welten interessiert waren. Durchdrungen von einer mystischen Feuerphilosophie, wollen sie ein heiliges Feuer in denen entfachen, deren ganzes Streben der Erlösung gilt, der Befreiung aus den Zwängen dieser relativen und wandelbaren Materiewelt. Die Chaldäischen Orakel sind 226 Aphorismen, die aus dem späten 2. Jahrhundert n. Chr. stammen. Sie werden hier erstmals in einer kongenialen deutschen Übersetzung vorgelegt.
Book Synopsis Nag Hammadi Codices XI, XII, XIII by : Charles W. Hedrick
Download or read book Nag Hammadi Codices XI, XII, XIII written by Charles W. Hedrick and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents critical editions of three of the most fragmentary codices in the Nag Hammadi Library. Their nine tractates are presented in an English translation with critically edited transcriptions of Coptic texts, including introductions and notes. A complete set of indices is provided for Coptic and Greek words, proper names, ancient texts and authors, and modern authors. The contents of these three ancient books reflect the rich diversity of the Library as a whole. They include a fragmentary (and apparently non-Christian) revelation descent narrative (Hypsiphrone); a non-Christian Sethian text reflecting heavy platonizing influence (Allogenes); Hellenistic Greek wisdom literature (Sentence of Sextus); a non-christian Sethian text, secondarily Christianized (Trimorphic Protennoia); Valentinian Gnosticism (A Valentinian Exposition); a Christian-Gnostic tractate with Valentinian affinities (The Interpretation of Knowledge). A Christian-Gnostic (perhaps Valentinian) homily on the gospel (the Gospel of Truth); the first page of On the Origin of the World (completely preserved in NHC II) and an identified fragmentary tractate with ethical content. There are also five Valentinian liturgical supplements appended to Allogenes. The publication of these religio-philosophical materials from Nag Hammadi provides the scholar and interested reader with critical editions of texts that help to fill in background and context of gnostic origins, and that shed light on the interaction among early Christianity and gnostic movements in antiquity.
Book Synopsis Rhetoric and Religious Identity in Late Antiquity by : Richard Flower
Download or read book Rhetoric and Religious Identity in Late Antiquity written by Richard Flower and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-08-31 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rhetoric and Religious Identity in Late Antiquity takes an interdisciplinary approach to the question of how individuals and groups ascribed religious categories during late antiquity. Particular focus is given to the role of rhetoric in the expression of religious identity, in order to give mutual illumination to both phenomena in this period.
Book Synopsis Oracula Chaldaica Latine by : Helmut Seng
Download or read book Oracula Chaldaica Latine written by Helmut Seng and published by Universitatsverlag Winter. This book was released on 2021-08-27 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nur wenige griechische Texte dürften in der frühen Neuzeit öfter ins Lateinische übertragen worden sein als die ,Chaldaeischen Orakel'. Von unterschiedlichsten Verfassern wurden sowohl die Sammlungen der byzantinischen Zeit (Psellos und Plethon) als auch die zugehörigen Kommentare und systematischen Abrisse übersetzt, paraphrasiert und nachgedichtet; die Sammlung Plethons war auch Gegenstand von Lehrveranstaltungen, zu denen Vorlesungsmitschriften überliefert sind. Francesco Patrizi legte 1591 eine neue Sammlung vor, die den Umfang des Vorhandenen weit übertraf, auch sie mit lateinischer Übersetzung, die bald weitere Bearbeitung erfuhr. Die vorliegende Ausgabe vereint 26 Einzeltexte aus dem 15. bis 17. Jahrhundert, die teils als Drucke vorliegen, teils nur handschriftlich überliefert sind - insgesamt wird fast die Hälfte hier erstmals ediert. Kurze Einleitungen enthalten biographische Angaben, Bestimmungen der griechischen Vorlagen und Charakterisierungen der Übersetzungsverfahren.
Book Synopsis Die Chaldäischen Orakel und Jamblich De mysteriis by : Friedrich W. Cremer
Download or read book Die Chaldäischen Orakel und Jamblich De mysteriis written by Friedrich W. Cremer and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Divination and Prophecy in the Ancient Greek World by : Roger D. Woodard
Download or read book Divination and Prophecy in the Ancient Greek World written by Roger D. Woodard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-31 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstrates the relevance of comparativism, ethnography, cognitive function, orality, and intertextuality to the elucidation of Greek prophetic practices.
Book Synopsis Athenian and Alexandrian Neoplatonism and the Harmonization of Aristotle and Plato by : Ilsetraut Hadot
Download or read book Athenian and Alexandrian Neoplatonism and the Harmonization of Aristotle and Plato written by Ilsetraut Hadot and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-01-08 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Athenian and Alexandrian Neoplatonism and the Harmonization of Aristotle and Plato by I. Hadot deals with the Neoplatonist tendency to harmonize the philosophies of Plato and Aristotle. It shows that this harmonizing tendency, born in Middle Platonism, prevailed in Neoplatonism from Porphyry and Iamblichus, where it persisted until the end of this philosophy. Hadot aims to illustrate that it is not the different schools themselves, for instance those of Athens and Alexandria, that differ from one another by the intensity of the will to harmonization, but groups of philosophers within these schools.
Book Synopsis Stimmen der Götter by : Lucia Maddalena Tissi
Download or read book Stimmen der Götter written by Lucia Maddalena Tissi and published by Universitatsverlag Winter. This book was released on 2019 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orakel sind in der antiken Religiosität weit verbreitet; auch in Kaiserzeit und Spätantike haben sie ihre Faszination nicht verloren. Das zeigt sich etwa in Orakelsammlungen wie den ,Chaldaeischen Orakeln', der ,Orakelphilosophie' des Porphyrios und der ,Tübinger Theosophie' oder aber in der Diskussion über ihren Inhalt und sogar ihren Gebrauch in rituellem Zusammenhang. Daneben sind Orakel in narrativen Gattungen wie Geschichtsschreibung und Roman präsent, auch noch in byzantinischer Zeit. Die Frühe Neuzeit greift vor allem auf theologische Orakel zurück, aber auch auf die Gestalt der Sibylle als Verkünderin von Orakeln, um die eigenen Vorstellungen an die antike Tradition anzubinden. Diese Form der Rezeption beschränkt sich nicht auf Texte, sondern umfasst dazu die bildenden Künste. Der vorliegende Band nimmt ausgewählte Fallbeispiele in den Blick.
