Ancient religions and Mythologies

'Sectarianism in Early Judaism' applies recent developments in sociological analysis to sect formation and development in early Judaism.

Esther de Waal draws on the ancient traditions of Celtic and monastic spirituality to explore thresholds between people, between cultures, between the human and the divine.

The Rig Veda, written in India about 1500BC, praises a holy plant called Soma, which is sacrificed and consumed, granting the drinker an experience of enlightenment and ecstasy.

'Son of Man' is practically the only self-designation employed by Jesus himself in the gospels, but is used in such a way that no hint is left of any particular theological significance.

She chose love.

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Aphrodite explores the many myths and meanings of the Greek goddess of love, sex and beauty.

The Aesir are dead, and the Vanir, now uncontested in their divinity, come to claim what is left of the Nine Realms.

For good or ill, most, if not all, of the great institutions which have formed the framework of society have had their roots in the idea of Deity as a beneficent providential order of transcendental reality.

This book features detailed analysis of an ancient secret scroll from the Middle East known as the Rivers Scroll or Diwan Nahrawatha, providing valuable insight into the Gnostic Mandaean religion.

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This volume offers a counterbalance to the dismissal that Orosius's Histories Against the Pagans has suffered in most recent criticism.

Christian Reading shifts the assumption that study of the Bible must be about the content of the Bible or aimed at confessional projects of religious instruction.

Theology and Existentialism in Aeschylus revivifies the complex question of fate and freedom in the tragedies of the famous Greek playwright.

Rethinks Rome''s Christianisation as a crisis of knowledge propelled by Constantine, with Emperor Julian as its key interpreter and catalyst.

A seminal figure in late antique Christianity and Christian orthodoxy, Saint Gregory of Nazianzus published a collection of more than 240 letters.

This Element is about the creation and curation of social memory in pharaonic and Greco-Roman Egypt.

Navigating a diversity of religious myths and worldviews in both conventional and nuanced secular ways, this edited volume explores transdisciplinary common knowledge and global citizenship ideology through the lens of spirituality, depth hermeneutics, and multimodality.

Contemporary Gospel studies have recently taken increasing interest in the Jewish context of Jesus and the gospels.

The oracles about the nations in Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel originate in the ancient Laments.

Laughing Gods, Weeping Virgins analyses how laughter has been used as a symbol in myths, rituals and festivals of Western religions, and has thus been inscribed in religious discourse.

Warum lehnt das Christentum die gleichgeschlechtliche Sexualität so hartnäckig ab?

Since the nineteenth-century rediscovery of the Gilgamesh epic, we have known that the Bible imports narratives from outside of Israelite culture, refiguring them for its own audience.

'The clearest and most detailed account of Stonehenge for a generation.

This book offers a critical edition of arguably the greatest work of English theology in the 20th century: Austin Farrer's Bampton Lectures published as The Glass of Vision in 1948.

The Inuit are a familiar part of Canadian identity but also exotic residing in the remote Arctic.

Geography, Religion, Gods, and Saints in the Eastern Mediterranean explores the influence of geography on religion and highlights a largely unknown story of religious history in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Producing Christian Culture takes as its thread the 'interpretative genres' within which medieval people engaged with the Bible.

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Der exilisch-nachexilische Wandel des „Religionstyps“ im alten Israel, der sich parallel zur und verbunden mit der Kanonbildung ergeben hat, ist Gegenstand unterschiedlicher religionsgeschichtlicher Forschungen.

THE DEFINITIVE AND COMPREHENSIVE RETELLING OF NORSE MYTHOLOGY 'Burning ice, biting flame; that is how life began' The extraordinary Scandinavian myth cycle is one of the most enduring, exciting, dramatic and compelling of the world's great stories.

Appearing in English for the first time, this classic introduction to the field of hermeneutics covers a wide range of approaches to biblical interpretation.

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The Ancient Explorers (1929) examines the motives of ancient exploration by the different civilizations of the time, the primary of these being the Greeks and the Romans, and looks at the means of travel at their disposal.

Animals played a crucial role in many aspects of Celtic life: in the economy, hunting, warfare, art, literature and religion.

A sweeping history of Ireland's native gods, from Iron Age cult and medieval saga to the Celtic Revival and contemporary fictionIreland's Immortals tells the story of one of the world's great mythologies.

Christianity spread across North Africa early, and it remained there as a powerful force much longer than anticipated.

The ideology of power is as much a part of modern life as in the ancient world, in which it has its long-lasting roots.

This collection of nine essays, with an introduction by Richard Griffiths, examines some of the broad themes relating to the way in which the reading, translation and interpretation of the Bible in the Renaissance could serve the specific and often practical aims of those involved.

Bonhoeffer's theology continues to prove richly fruitful in the 21st century.

Laktanz verfasste die Diuinae institutiones während der Christenverfolgung unter Diokletian als apologetisch ausgerichtete Gesamtdarstellung des christlichen Glaubens für gebildete Leser.