The Metaphorical Use of Language in Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature
The Metaphorical Use of Language in Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature

Author: Markus Witte

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2014-12-17

Total Pages: 517

ISBN-13: 3110386232

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Metaphors are a vital linguistic component of religious speech and serve as a cultural indicator of how groups understand themselves and the world. The essays compiled in this volume analyze the use, function, and structure of metaphors in Jewish writings from the Hellenistic-Roman period (including the works of Philo and the texts of Qumran), as well as in apocryphal early Christian texts and inscriptions.

Forms, Souls, and Embryos
Forms, Souls, and Embryos

Author: James Wilberding

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-07-15

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 1317355245

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Forms, Souls, and Embryos allows readers coming from different backgrounds to appreciate the depth and originality with which the Neoplatonists engaged with and responded to a number of philosophical questions central to human reproduction, including: What is the causal explanation of the embryo’s formation? How and to what extent are Platonic Forms involved? In what sense is a fetus ‘alive,’ and when does it become a human being? Where does the embryo’s soul come from, and how is it connected to its body? This is the first full-length study in English of this fascinating subject, and is a must-read for anyone interested in Neoplatonism or the history of medicine and embryology.

Apocalyptic Cartography
Apocalyptic Cartography

Author: Chet Van Duzer

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2015-11-24

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 9004307273

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In Apocalyptic Cartography: Thematic Maps and the End of the World in a Fifteenth-Century Manuscript, Chet Van Duzer and Ilya Dines analyse Huntington Library HM 83, an unstudied manuscript produced in Lübeck, Germany. The manuscript contains a rich collection of world maps produced by an anonymous but strikingly original cartographer. These include one of the earliest programs of thematic maps, and a remarkable series of maps that illustrate the transformations that the world was supposed to undergo during the Apocalypse. The authors supply detailed discussion of the maps and transcriptions and translations of the Latin texts that explain the maps. Copies of the maps in a fifteenth-century manuscript in Wolfenbüttel prove that this unusual work did circulate. A brief article about this book on the website of National Geographic can be found here.

Science Education in the Early Roman Empire
Science Education in the Early Roman Empire

Author: Richard Carrier

Publisher: Pitchstone Publishing (US&CA)

Published: 2016-10-01

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 1634310918

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Throughout the Roman Empire Cities held public speeches and lectures, had libraries, and teachers and professors in the sciences and the humanities, some subsidized by the state. There even existed something equivalent to universities, and medical and engineering schools. What were they like? What did they teach? Who got to attend them? In the first treatment of this subject ever published, Dr. Richard Carrier answers all these questions and more, describing the entire education system of the early Roman Empire, with a unique emphasis on the quality and quantity of its science content. He also compares pagan attitudes toward the Roman system of education with the very different attitudes of ancient Jews and Christians, finding stark contrasts that would set the stage for the coming Dark Ages.

P. Papini Stati Thebaidos Libri XII
P. Papini Stati Thebaidos Libri XII

Author: D.E. Hill

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-07-17

Total Pages: 427

ISBN-13: 9004328157

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This is a reprint of an edition first published in 1983. It includes a list of corrections which have come to light since then. The edition includes a Praefatio which sheds light on the relationship between the major manuscripts; there is also a full apparatus which reports the significant readings from fresh collations of the major manuscripts, and established a text based on a full account, with discussion where necessary, of all important suggestions published before 1980 or suggested privately to the editor. It also includes an appendix which lists all variant readings known to the editor but which are unlikely to be helpful in establishing a text. The edition will be the starting point for any serious work on the epic.