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

Author: Walter Burkert

Publisher:

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

Publisher:

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ancient Prophecy
Ancient Prophecy

Author: Martti Nissinen

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017-11-28

Total Pages: 469

ISBN-13: 0192535978

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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Ancient Prophecy: Near Eastern, Biblical, and Greek Perspectives is the first monograph-length comparative study on prophetic divination in ancient Near Eastern, biblical, and Greek sources. Prophecy is one of the ways humans have believed to become conversant with what is believed to be superhuman knowledge. The prophetic process of communication involves the prophet, her/his audience, and the deity from whom the message allegedly comes from. Martti Nissinen introduces a wealth of ancient sources documenting the prophetic phenomenon around the ancient Eastern Mediterranean, whether cuneiform tablets from Mesopotamia, the Hebrew Bible, Greek inscriptions, or ancient historians. Nissinen provides an up-to-date presentation of textual sources, the number of which has increased substantially in recent times. In addition, the study includes four analytical comparative chapters. The first demonstrates the altered state of consciousness to be one of the central characteristics of the prophets' public behavior. The second discusses the prophets' affiliation with temples, which are the typical venues of the prophetic performance. The third delves into the relationship between prophets and kings, which can be both critical and supportive. The fourth shows gender-inclusiveness to be one of the peculiar features of the prophetic agency, which could be executed by women, men, and genderless persons as well. The ways prophetic divination manifests itself in ancient sources depend not only on the socio-religious position of the prophets in a given society, but also on the genre and purpose of the sources. Nissinen contends that, even though the view of the ancient prophetic landscape is restricted by the fragmentary and secondary nature of the sources, it is possible to reconstruct essential features of prophetic divination at the socio-religious roots of the Western civilization.

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.

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.

Rediscovering E. R. Dodds
Rediscovering E. R. Dodds

Author: Christopher Stray

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2019-09-26

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 0191083151

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Rediscovering E. R. Dodds offers the first comprehensive assessment of a remarkable classical scholar, who was also a poet with extensive links to twentieth-century English and Irish literary culture, the friend of Auden and MacNeice. Dodds was born in Northern Ireland, but made his name as Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford from 1936 to 1960, succeeding Gilbert Murray. Before this he taught at Reading and Birmingham, was active in the Association of University Teachers, or AUT (of which he became president), and brought an outsider's perspective to the comfortable and introspective world of Oxford. His famous book The Greeks and the Irrational (1951) remains one of the most distinguished and visionary works of scholarship of its time, though much less well-known is his long and influential involvement with psychic research and his work for the reconstruction of German education after the Second World War. The contributions to this volume seek to shed light on these less explored areas of Dodds' life and his significance as perhaps the last classicist to play a significant role in British literary culture, as well as examining his work across different areas of scholarship, notably Greek tragedy. A group of memoirs - one by his pupil and former literary executor, Donald Russell, and three by younger friends who knew, visited, and looked after Dodds in his last years - complement this portrait of the influential scholar and poet, offering a glimpse of the man behind the legacy.