The Causes of War

The Causes of War

Author: Alexander Gillespie

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2013-10-16

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 1782255974

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This is the first volume of a projected four-volume series charting the causes of war from 3000 BCE to the present day, written by a leading international lawyer, and using as its principal materials the documentary history of international law largely in the form of treaties and the negotiations which led up to them. These volumes seek to show why millions of people, over thousands of years, slayed each other. In departing from the various theories put forward by historians, anthropologists and psychologists, Gillespie offers a different taxonomy of the causes of war, focusing on the broader settings of politics, religion, migrations and empire-building. These four contexts were dominant and often overlapping justifications for the first four thousand years of human civilisation, for which written records exist.


Hist West Educ:Ancient World V 1

Hist West Educ:Ancient World V 1

Author: James Bowen

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-10-24

Total Pages: 603

ISBN-13: 1136500685

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Volume One of three, this is a reprint of James Bowen's A History of Western Education originally published by Methuen in the 1970s. Volume One covers The Ancient World: Orient and Mediterranean 2000B.C - A.D. 1054. The volume traces the development of education in the ancient world from the first scribal cultures of Mesopotamia and Egypt to learning in the early Christian church. A detailed account is given of the achievements of Greece in literacy, learning, philosophy and training for public life - achievements which were further developed in the Hellenistic Orient and incorporated by the Romans into their own highly organized educational system. This leads to the emergence of a specifically Christian ideal of education, the decline of secular learning in the West, and the preservation of learning both in Byzantium and in Western monasticism.


Introduction to Ancient History

Introduction to Ancient History

Author: Herman Bengtson

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2023-07-28

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 0520313550

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1970.


Introduction to Ancient History

Introduction to Ancient History

Author: Hermann Bengtson

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1975-01-01

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780520031500

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Our translation is made especially for students who have not yet acquired facility in German. It departs from Professor Bengtson's text mainly in that the general bibliographical appendix has been reorganized to conform with the plan of the Cambridge Ancient History and also has been revised with the English-reading student in mind.


Hellenization Revisited

Hellenization Revisited

Author: Institute for Christian Studies

Publisher: University Press of America

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 572

ISBN-13: 9780819195449

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This volume focuses on the role of Judaism, particularly that of Philo, and of Gnosticism, as two important forces shaping the response of early Christianity to the Hellenistic Greco-Roman culture of its time. The sections which examine Hellenistic Judaism investigate themes from Greek philosophy, like 'reason controlling the passions, ' which are also crucial in shaping Philo's perception of the feminine. The manner in which Jewish authors of this period attempt to synthesize Old Testament with Greek philosophical themes like creation/cosmology receives specific treatment. Essays dealing with Gnosticism re-examine themes from Greek philosophers like Plato and Aristotle in Gnostic documents, but also look at the role of Hellenistic Judaism with its interests in Sophia. Co-published with the Institute for Christian Studies


XII Congress of the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies Leiden, 2004

XII Congress of the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies Leiden, 2004

Author: Melvin Peters

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2006-12-15

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 9047409558

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The contributors to this volume are Anneli Aejmelaeus, Hans Ausloos, Mathilde Aussedat, Jean-Marie Auwers, Mario Cimosa, Johann Cook, Claude E. Cox, Evangelia G. Dafni, Sabine van den Eynde, Leonard J. Greenspoon, Katrin Hauspie, Theo van der Louw, Michaël N. van der Meer, Melvin K. H. Peters, Joachim Schaper, Stefan Schorch, Jannes Smith, and Raija Sollamo.