This book reveals how sociocultural and political debates today are still heavily influenced by ancient mythology. It explores how ancient stories shape how our modern secular society thinks about the interconnected geopolitical, technological, and...Loe edasi...
This book explores how late antique miracle collections depict Christian saints as subversive, theatrical tricksters who blur the boundaries between sacred and profane, human and divine. Suitable for scholars and students of late antique Christianit...Loe edasi...
Old Norse Mythology is an accessible and multidisciplinary introduction to the field. It surveys the 13 most consequential Eddic poems and Snorri Sturlusons Edda, with a text-by-text approach explaining the content of each, how they represent Old No...Loe edasi...
This book offers a comprehensive and systematic rather than historical approach to ancient Greek oracular texts, showing their conceptual and formal unity and patternisation, as well as their meaningful diversity....Loe edasi...
This book explores the role of physical bodies, ritual technologies, healing practices, gender, and visual imagery in creating and sustaining religious meaning in antiquity. It is ideal for students and scholars working on the New Testament and earl...Loe edasi...
This book focuses on the element of thresholds makeshift gates, makeshift structures and house doors as concepts of liminality in ancient Near Eastern magical rituals and the idea of transformation they reflect, specifically concentrating on the g...Loe edasi...
The first of its kind, this book presents a wide range of passages exploring many aspects of the Greco-Roman watery world: physics, philosophy, weather, medicine, marine biology, religion and mythology, infrastructure, sailing, and mercantile activi...Loe edasi...
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 hermeneuti...Loe edasi...
A Study in Creative History (1932) aims to present the main movements of thought as they emerge clearly into history. The book offers the view that the main developments prior to 500 B.C. were the emergence of the Prophetic school in Israel, of Mazd...Loe edasi...
This book discusses 20th and 21st century literary retellings of biblical texts, focusing on how fiction and poetry fill the extant narrative gaps present in the often sparse biblical accounts and align the narratives with theological and/or cultura...Loe edasi...
This volume by the late Bernd J. Diebner presents an anthology of studies previously published only in German from 1971 to 2020 on a range of topics in biblical studies. Of interest to Anglophone scholars of biblical and ancient Near Eastern studies...Loe edasi...
This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the fate of the twelve disciples of Jesus along with the apostles Paul and James. McDowell assesses the evidence for each apostles martyrdom and offers insightful scholarly analysis to break new ground wi...Loe edasi...
Athens or Jerusalem? (first published in 1965), based on the Minns Lectures of 1963, is unique as it gives a comprehensive survey of Christian thought and is designed to show that it is an amalgam of elements from both Athens and Jerusalem, and othe...Loe edasi...
This multidisciplinary volume examines the ongoing effects of James G. Frazers The Golden Bough in modern Humanities and its wide-ranging influence across studies of ancient religions, literature, historiography and reception studies....Loe edasi...
In the Beginning (1957) represents a series of lectures given by the author at Cornell University, examining the views of the Ancient Greeks on the central foundation myths of their civilisation. From stories of mother earth to later philosophical a...Loe edasi...
The Elements of Greek Philosophy (1922) is an overview of the basic principles of Ancient Greek philosophy, tracing the developments of Greek thought from Thales of Miletus to Socrates, Plato and Aristotle....Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1932, this book is based on a series of lectures delivered in Cambridge in 1931. The views of the universe as held by the great teachers of Ancient Alexandria are discussed: Philo, Clement, Origen, Plotinus and the Gnostics a...Loe edasi...
Barbarians and Romans (1983) examines the rise of the barbarian tribes and the consequent decline of the Roman Empire. The book ranges across the Roman world, and from the rulers to the ruled, combining the study of monuments and artefacts with the...Loe edasi...
This book explores figurative images of the womb and the simile of a woman in labor from the Hebrew Bible, problematizing previous interpretations that present these as disparate images and showing how their interconnectivity embodies relationship w...Loe edasi...
