Ancient religions and Mythologies

Iulius Africanus ist mit Recht als der Vater der christlichen Chronographie"e; bezeichnet worden.

Der vorliegende Band enthält Beiträge des renommierten Marburger Alttestamentlers Otto Kaiser zur Theologie, Anthropologie und Ethik des Buches Kohelet sowie zur Weisheit des Jesus Sirach und seines geistes- und theologiegeschichtlichen Hintergrundes.

Places and spaces are key factors in how individuals and groups construct their identities.

Why did Egyptian cults, especially those dedicated to the goddess Isis and god Sarapis, spread so successfully across the ancient Mediterranean after the death of Alexander the Great?

Revelation and Story explores the relationship between the theology of revelation and the theology of story or narrative theology.

Ginnungagap, the Gaping Abyss, was once what separated the realms of Ice and Fire, keeping them in balance and sparing the other realms from their ravages.

The belief that dead people could assume non-human forms is attested in Egyptian texts of all periods, from the Old Kingdom down to Graeco-Roman times.

This book invites a close textual encounter with the first 11 chapters of Genesis as an intimate drama of marginalised peoples wrestling with the rise of the world's first grain states in the Mesopotamian alluvium.

Tell el-Amarna is the modern name for the ancient Egyptian city of Akhenaten, situated in a bay of hills formed by the cliffs of the eastern desert about halfway between Cairo and Luxor.

Palestine of the Jews (1919) examines the history of Jewish Palestine, from 4,000 years ago to the early twentieth century and the Balfour Declaration.

The first principle of ministry leadership is love--love that emerges from life rooted in God.

Eusebius's groundbreaking History of the Church, remains the single most important source for the history of the first three centuries of Christianity and stands among the classics of Western literature.

Simone Weil (1909-1943) is one of the most brilliant and unorthodox religious and philosophical minds of the twentieth century.

Rufinus' vivid account of the battle between the Eastern Emperor Theodosius and the Western usurper Eugenius by the River Frigidus in 394 represents it as the final confrontation between paganism and Christianity.

This book examines an undertheorized topic in the study of religion and sacred texts: the figure of the neighbor.

DAS BUCH DREI behandelt Dreiheiten jeglicher Art, die Dreiteilung in der Anthroposophie, bei den hinduistischen Gottheiten, die Dreieinigkeit, dreizählige Pflanzen, dreimaliges Ansprechen, dreifache Affirmationen u.

The Final Pagan Generation recounts the fascinating story of the lives and fortunes of the last Romans born before the Emperor Constantine converted to Christianity.

In this book Rowlands interrogates the theological and philosophical foundations of the 'Quest' for the historical Jesus, from Reimarus to the present day, culminating in a call for greater metaphysical transparency and diversity in the discipline.

Filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky's insights into the Tarot as a spiritual path *; Works with the original Marseille Tarot to reveal the roots of Western wisdom *; Provides the key to the symbolic language of the Tarot's ';nomadic cathedral' *; Transforms a simple divination tool into a vehicle for self-realization and healing Alejandro Jodorowsky's profound study of the Tarot, which began in the early 1950s, reveals it to be far more than a simple divination device.

Scholars across many fields have come to realize that ritual is an integral element of human life and a vital aspect of all human societies.

This volume will concentrate its search for religious individuality on texts and practices related to texts from Classical Greece to Late Antiquity.

'Women Healing/ Healing Women' begins with a search for women who were healers in the Graeco-Roman world of the late Hellenistic and early Roman period.

In Late Antiquity the emergence of Christian asceticism challenged the traditional Greco-Roman views and practices of family life.

Despite the welcome revival of scholarly interest in Biblical Wisdom, the Book of Proverbs remains neglected.

'What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?

Tarot cards have been around since the Renaissance and have become increasingly popular in recent years, often due to their prevalence in popular culture.

Originally pulished in 2000, In Search of First Century Christianity contends that Christianity in the first century had no founder but rather evolved as a convergence of many forces: political disillusionment, cultural mutations, religious and theological motifs, psychosocial losses and new expectations.

A Refreshing and Rethinking Retrieval of Greek Thinking presents a rereading and rethinking of Greek philosophy in an attempt to retrieve an essential thread in Greek thinking that has been covered over for many centuries - beginning with the late Greeks, then Christianity, and then rationalism - and misrepresented by mistranslations from the seventeenth century onward .

Why did the Vikings sail to England?

Find answers in the cards with this comprehensive reference Manifest with the Magician, pave the way for new beginnings with the Tower, and connect to your subconscious with the High Priestess.

Antony Kamm presents an accessible, user-friendly introduction to the people of the kingdoms of Israel and Judah from earliest times up to AD 135.

Julian: An Intellectual Biography, first published in 1981, presents a penetrating and scholarly analysis of Julian's intellectual development against the background of philosophy and religion in the late Roman Empire.

In Truly Beyond Wonders Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis investigates texts and material evidence associated with healing pilgrimage in the Roman empire during the second century AD.

The Roman cult of Mithras was the most widely-dispersed and densely-distributed cult throughout the expanse of the Roman Empire from the end of the first until the fourth century AD, rivaling the early growth and development of Christianity during the same period.

This volume is the first monograph in English dedicated to the study of the Greek mythical hero Pelops.

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.

WHEN GODS TURN VENGEFUL, ONLY THE BRAVE CAN DEFY FATE AND FIND THEIR WAY HOMEDiscover the stunning conclusion to Stephen Fry's internationally bestselling Greek myths series'Relatable and full of humour ' GUARDIAN'Fry breathes contemporary relevance into these ancient tales' OBSERVER--After the fall of Troy, wily Odysseus, King of Ithaca, sails for home and his steadfast queen Penelope.

Clear, concise yet wide-ranging, The Ancient World in Minutes is the quickest way to understand the great civilizations of the distant past.

A History of the Roman World from 753 to 146 B.

Centering on the first extant martyr story (2 Maccabees 7), this study explores the "e;autonomous value"e; of martyrdom.

Facsimile of volume of detailed catalogs prepared by Flinders Petrie of ancient weights and measures based on examination of over 4000 Egyptian weights within his collections.

The Bible is often said to be one of the foundation texts of Western culture.

This is the second volume of Sir E.

This stunning collection of images celebrates the remarkable career of Burnis Mac McCloud, Denvers premiere Black photographer between 1950 and 1980.