Kleine Schriften: Mythica, Ritualia, Religiosa 3 : Kulte und Feste

Kleine Schriften: Mythica, Ritualia, Religiosa 3 : Kulte und Feste

Author: Walter Burkert

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Published: 2001

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13:

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English summary: This volume of Walter Burkert's Kleine Schriften, edited by Eveline Krummen, presents a selection of articles on Greek ritual (especially on sacrifice) and ancient religion. Together with vol. III on Orphic and Pythagorean Studies, the volumes IV-VI form the core of Walter Burkert's work and close the edition of Burkert's Collected Papers. German text. German description: Der sechste Band von Walter Burkerts Kleinen Schriften konzentriert sich auf Kulte und Feste, ist untergliedert in Gottheiten und Heroen und Institutionen. Es geht um die einzelnen Gestalten der griechischen Religion und besonders die Institution des Tempels, aber auch um grundlegende Fragen zur Bedeutung und Funktion von Ritual, Opfer und Religion. Diese Aufsatze eroffnen eine weitere Perspektive der wissenschaftlichen Arbeit Walter Burkerts, die in der Rezeption seines Werkes hinter der Diskussion seiner Opfertheorie und des soziobiologischen Zugangs etwas zuruckgetreten ist, jedoch ebenfalls ein kontinuierliches Thema seiner Arbeiten bildet.


Kleine Schriften: Mythica, Ritualia, Religiosa 1

Kleine Schriften: Mythica, Ritualia, Religiosa 1

Author: Walter Burkert

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Published: 2001

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13:

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English summary: This volume of Walter Burkert's Kleine Schriften, edited by Fritz Graf, presents a selection of articles on myth and on Greek ritual (especially on sacrifice). Together with vol. III on Orphic and Pythagorean Studies, the volumes IV-VI form the core of Walter Burkert's work and close the edition of Burkert's Collected Papers. German text. German description: Walter Burkert ist einer der profiliertesten und bedeutendsten Forscher zur griechisch-romischen Antike der Gegenwart. Religion steht im Zentrum seines Werks. Ganz besonders sind es Mythos und Ritual, seit Homo Necans (1972), einem Buch, das als erstes umfassend und methodisch die Parallelismen der beiden Phanomene im griechischen Material verfolgte. In Band IV der Kleinen Schriften Burkerts sind Aufsatze zum Mythos und allgemeine Aufsatze zur antiken Religion gesammelt. Dieser Band greift nicht nur weit zuruck in Burkerts Schaffen und situiert so seine Buchpublikationen in ihrem wissenschaftlichen Umfeld. Er umfasst auch einen neueren Text, der Burkerts Reflexion auf die Probleme und die Zukunft der von ihm so massgebend geformten Religionswissenschaft der antiken Welt vorstellt.


Ancestral Fault in Ancient Greece

Ancestral Fault in Ancient Greece

Author: Renaud Gagné

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-11-07

Total Pages: 567

ISBN-13: 1107039800

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This book traces the trajectories of a key idea of ancient Greek culture through three thousand years of literature and reception.


Jesus, Paul, and the Early Church

Jesus, Paul, and the Early Church

Author: Eckhard J. Schnabel

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

Published: 2018-07-24

Total Pages: 625

ISBN-13: 3161560612

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This volume contains seventeen essays written by Eckhard J. Schnabel, written over the past 25 years. The essays focus on the realities of the work of Jesus, Paul, John, and the early church, exploring aspects of the history, missionary expansion, and theology of the early church including lexical, ethical, and ecclesiological questions. Specific subjects discussed include Jesus' silence at his trial, the introduction of foreign deities to Athens, the understanding of Rom 12:1, Paul's ethics, the meaning of baptizein, the realities of persecution, Christian identity and mission in Revelation, and singing and instrumental music in the early church.


Hittite Texts and Greek Religion

Hittite Texts and Greek Religion

Author: Ian Rutherford

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2020-09-23

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 0192599941

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Our knowledge of ancient Greece has been transformed in the last century by an increased understanding of the cultures of the Ancient Near East. This is particularly true of ancient religion. This book looks at the relationship between the religious systems of Ancient Greece and the Hittites, who controlled Turkey in the Late Bronze Age (1400-1200 BC). The cuneiform texts preserved in the Hittite archives provide a particularly rich source for religious practice, detailing festivals, purification rituals, oracle-consultations, prayers, and myths of the Hittite state, as well as documenting the religious practice of neighbouring Anatolian states in which the Hittites took an interest. Hittite religion is thus more comprehensively documented than any other ancient religious tradition in the Near East, even Egypt. The Hittites are also known to have been in contact with Mycenaean Greece, known to them as Ahhiyawa. The book first sets out the evidence and provides a methodological paradigm for using comparative data. It then explores cases where there may have been contact or influence, such as in the case of scapegoat rituals or the Kumarbi-Cycle. Finally, it considers key aspects of religious practices shared by both systems, such as the pantheon, rituals of war, festivals, and animal sacrifice. The aim of such a comparison is to discover clues that may further our understanding of the deep history of religious practices and, when used in conjunction with historical data, illuminate the differences between cultures and reveal what is distinctive about each of them.


Von Ursachen sprechen. Eine aitiologische Spurensuche. Telling origins. On the lookout for aetiology

Von Ursachen sprechen. Eine aitiologische Spurensuche. Telling origins. On the lookout for aetiology

Author: Christiane Reitz

Publisher: Georg Olms Verlag

Published: 2014-12-31

Total Pages: 585

ISBN-13: 3487151901

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Ursachen erzählen – von Ursachen erzählen: Unser Band vereint Untersuchungen zu Texten aus ganz verschiedenen Bereichen. Altes und Neues Testament, Fachschriften, literarische, historiographische und urkundliche Texte von der Antike bis zur Neuzeit und sogar die Marseillaise kommen zur Sprache. Alle Interpreten haben sich folgende Fragen gestellt: Wie werden Ursprungsgeschichten erzählt? Lassen sich in einzelnen Gattungen, Textsorten, Bildern, wissenschaftlichen und literarischen Kontexten gemeinsame Strukturen feststellen, wie Aitien eingesetzt und gestaltet werden? Bildet sich eine eigene Systematik aus, die sich von anderen Erzählungen abhebt? Welche Erkennungsmuster bieten die Ursprungsgeschichten, seien sie in wissenschaftlichen, in fiktionalen, in bildlichen Zusammenhängen präsent, ihren intendierten Rezipienten an? Mythos, Überzeugung, Historie, Sprechen und Wissen: In jedem dieser Bereiche erweist sich die Frage nach dem aitiologischen Kern als fruchtbar. Telling origins and telling of origins – our volume brings together studies of a wide range of texts: the Old and New Testaments, technical writing, literary, historiographical and documentary texts from antiquity to the modern age, and even the Marseillaise. All contributors deal with the following questions: how are stories about origins told? Can we identify common patterns for the ways in which aitia are established and shaped in individual genres, types of texts, images, scientific and literary contexts? Can we distinguish the development of narrative structures specific to aetiology? Which patterns of recognition do stories of origins, whether in scientific, fictional or visual contexts, offer to their intended recipients? Myth, persuasion, history, speech and knowledge: in each of these spheres the search for an aetiological core proves fruitful.


Ancient Prophecy

Ancient Prophecy

Author: Martti Nissinen

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 469

ISBN-13: 0198808550

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Annotation A study of the phenomenon of prophecy as documented in ancient Near Eastern texts and the Hebrew Bible as well as Greek sources, from the twenty-first century BCE to the second century CE.


Evil and Death

Evil and Death

Author: Beate Ego

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2015-09-25

Total Pages: 437

ISBN-13: 3110382032

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Jewish anthropological beliefs during the Hellenistic-Roman period are an important but previously neglected area of biblical exegesis and Jewish studies. In an effort to address this deficiency, this volume brings together 20 essays related to the subject of sin and death, with special emphasis on integrating material from neighboring cultures. Thus, the volume provides an exemplary foundation for further research on ancient Jewish anthropology.


Experiencing the Shepherd of Hermas

Experiencing the Shepherd of Hermas

Author: Angela Kim Harkins

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2022-06-06

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 3110780747

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The Shepherd of Hermas is one of the oldest and most well-attested Christian works. Its popularity arguably exceeded that of the canonical Gospels. Many early Christian thinkers regarded the Shepherd as authoritative and cited it in their own writings, even though its status as Scripture was controversial. The far-reaching influence of the Shepherd during the first few centuries is attested in part by the many languages in which it was copied: Latin, Ethiopic, Coptic, Middle Persian, and Georgian. The early dating and wide dissemination of the Shepherd of Hermas offers us access to a period when canonical boundaries were elastic. This volume treats religious experience in the Shepherd, a topic that has received little scholarly attention. It complements a growing body of literature that explores the text from social-historical perspectives. Leading scholars approach it from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives, including critical literary theory, anthropology, cognitive science, affect theory, gender studies, intersectionality, and text reception. In doing so, they pose fresh questions to one of the most widely read texts in the early church, offering new insights to scholars and students alike.