Heavenly Realms And Earthly Realities In Late Antique Religions
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Heavenly Realms And Earthly Realities In Late Antique Religions
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Author : Ra'anan S. Boustan
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2004-08-16
Heavenly Realms And Earthly Realities In Late Antique Religions written by Ra'anan S. Boustan and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-08-16 with History categories.
The idea of heaven held a special place in the late antique imagination, which was marked by a poignant sense of the relevance of otherworldly realities for earthly life. Such concerns can be found not only in Judaism and Christianity but also in the Greco-Roman religious, philosophical, scientific, and 'magical' traditions. Transcending social, regional and creedal boundaries, the preocupation with heaven in Late Antiquity serves as a focus for an interdisciplinary approach to understanding this formative era in Western culture and history. Drawing upon the expertise of scholars of Classics, Ancient History, Jewish Studies and Patristics, this volume explores the different functions of heavenly imagery in different texts and traditions in order to map the patterns of unity and diversity within the religious landscape of Late Antiquity.
Fallen Angels And The History Of Judaism And Christianity
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Author : Annette Yoshiko Reed
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2005-11-28
Fallen Angels And The History Of Judaism And Christianity written by Annette Yoshiko Reed and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-11-28 with Religion categories.
This book considers the early history of Jewish-Christian relations focussing on the fallen angels.
Reading The Way To The Netherworld
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Author : Ilinca Tanaseanu-Döbler
language : en
Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Release Date : 2016-12-05
Reading The Way To The Netherworld written by Ilinca Tanaseanu-Döbler and has been published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-05 with Religion categories.
The volume focuses on the various representations of the Beyond in later Antiquity, a period of intense interaction and competition between various religious traditions and ideals of education. The concepts and images clustering around the Beyond form a crucial focal point for understanding the dynamics of religion and education in later Antiquity. Although Christianity gradually supersedes the pagan traditions, the literary representations of the Beyond derived from classical literature and transmitted through the texts read at school show a remarkable persistence: they influence Christian late antique writers and are still alive in medieval literature of the East and West. A specifically Christian Beyond develops only gradually, and coexists subsequently with pagan ideas, which in turn vary according to the respective literary and philosophical contexts. Thus, the various conceptualisations of the great existential unknown, serves here as a point of reference for mirroring the changes and continuities in Imperial and Late Antique religion, education, and culture, and opening up further perspectives into the Medieval world.
Language And Religion
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Author : Robert Yelle
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2019-02-19
Language And Religion written by Robert Yelle and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-19 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This volume draws on an interdisciplinary team of authors to advance the study of the religious dimensions of communication and the linguistic aspects of religion. Contributions cover: poetry, iconicity, and iconoclasm in religious language; semiotic ideologies in traditional religions and in secularism; and the role of materiality and writing in religious communication. This volume will provoke new approaches to language and religion.
Food And Transformation In Ancient Mediterranean Literature
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Author : Meredith J. C. Warren
language : en
Publisher: SBL Press
Release Date : 2019-05-03
Food And Transformation In Ancient Mediterranean Literature written by Meredith J. C. Warren and has been published by SBL Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-03 with Religion categories.
New research that transforms how to understand food and eating in literature Meredith J. C. Warren identifies and defines a new genre in ancient texts that she terms hierophagy, a specific type of transformational eating where otherworldly things are consumed. Multiple ancient Mediterranean, Jewish, and Christian texts represent the ramifications of consuming otherworldly food, ramifications that were understood across religious boundaries. Reading ancient texts through the lens of hierophagy helps scholars and students interpret difficult passages in Joseph and Aseneth, 4 Ezra, Revelation 10, and the Persephone myths, among others. Features: Exploration of how ancient literature relies on bending, challenging, inverting, and parodying cultural norms in order to make meaning out of genres Analysis of hierophagy as social action that articulates how patterns of communication across texts and cultures emerge and diverge A new understanding of previously confounding scenes of literary eating
Reflections On Religious Individuality
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Author : Jörg Rüpke
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2012-07-04
Reflections On Religious Individuality written by Jörg Rüpke and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-04 with Religion categories.
This volume will concentrate its search for religious individuality on texts and practices related to texts from Classical Greece to Late Antiquity. Texts offer opportunities to express one’s own religious experience and shape one’s own religious personality within the boundaries of what is acceptable. Inscriptions in public or at least easily accessible spaces might substantially differ in there range of expressions and topics from letters within a sectarian religious group (which, at the same time, might put enormous pressure on conformity among its members, regarded as deviant by a majority of contemporaries). Furthermore, texts might offer and advocate new practices in reading, meditating, remembering or repeating these very texts. Such practices might contribute to the development of religious individuality, experienced or expressed in factual isolation, responsibility, competition, and finally in philosophical or theological reflections about “personhood” or “self”. The volume develops its topic in three sections, addressing personhood, representative and charismatic individuality, the interaction of individual and groups and practices of reading and writing. It explores Jewish, Christian, Greek and Latin texts.
Mantik
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Author : Sarah Iles Johnston
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2005-07-01
Mantik written by Sarah Iles Johnston and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-07-01 with History categories.
This book thoroughly revisits divination as a central phenomenon in the lives of ancient Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians. It collects studies from many periods in Graeco-Roman history, from the Archaic period to the late Roman, and touches on many different areas of this rich topic, including treatments of dice oracles, sortition in both pagan and Christian contexts, the overlap between divination and other interpretive practices in antiquity, the fortunes of independent diviners, the activity of Delphi in ordering relations with the dead, the role of Egyptian cult centers in divinatory practices, and the surreptitious survival of recipes for divination by corpses. It also reflects a ranges of methodologies, drawn from anthropology, history of religions, intellectual history, literary studies, and archaeology, epigraphy, and paleography. It will be of particular interest to scholars and student of ancient Mediterranean religions.
Monasteries And The Care Of Souls In Late Antique Christianity
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Author : Paul Dilley
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2017-09-07
Monasteries And The Care Of Souls In Late Antique Christianity written by Paul Dilley and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-07 with History categories.
This book explores the personal practices and group rituals for monitoring and training the thoughts of ancient Christian monks. It focuses on the earliest sources for communal monasticism, many translated into English for the first time, while drawing on cognitive studies to understand key disciplines like prayer and collective repentance.
Gregory Of Nyssa S Tabernacle Imagery In Its Jewish And Christian Contexts
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Author : Ann Conway-Jones
language : en
Publisher: Oxford Early Christian Studies
Release Date : 2014
Gregory Of Nyssa S Tabernacle Imagery In Its Jewish And Christian Contexts written by Ann Conway-Jones and has been published by Oxford Early Christian Studies this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Intergrating patristics and early Jewish mysticism, this book examines Greogry of Nyssa's tabernacle imagery, as found in Life of Moses 2. 170-201. Previous scholarship has often focused on Gregory's interpretation of the darkness on Mount Sinai as divine incomprehensibility. However, true to Exodus, Gregory continues with Moses's vision of the tabernacle "not made with hands" received within that darkness. This innovative methodology of heuristic comparison doesn't strive to prove influence, but to use heavenly ascent textsas a foil, in order to shed new light on Gregory's imagery. Ann Conway-Jones presents a well-rounded, nuanced understanding of Gregory's exegesis, in which mysticism, theology, and politics are intertwined. Heavenly ascent texts use descriptions of religious experience to claim authoritative knowledge. For Gregory, the high point of Moses's ascent into the darkness of Mount Sinai is the mystery of Christian doctrine. The heavenly tabernacle is a type of the heavenly Christ. This mystery is beyond intellectual comprehension, it can only be grasped by faith; and only the select few, destined for positions of responsibility, should even attempt to do so.
The Transformation Of Greek Amulets In Roman Imperial Times
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Author : Christopher A. Faraone
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2018-04-20
The Transformation Of Greek Amulets In Roman Imperial Times written by Christopher A. Faraone and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-20 with History categories.
Featuring more than 120 illustrations, The Transformation of Greek Amulets in Roman Imperial Times is an essential reference for those interested in the religion, culture, and history of the ancient Mediterranean.