Ancient Religions – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 4

Alhena Gadotti, Alexandra Kleinerman

Living and Dying in Mesopotamia

Exploring life, death, and the afterlife in Mesopotamia, Alhena Gadotti and Alexandra Kleinerman examine how life and death experiences continually developed over the course of nearly three millennia of M…

H P R Twiston Davies

The Transmission of the Book of the Dead in New Kingdom Tombs at Saqqara

T exts and images from the Book of the Dead were widely used to decorate the walls of tombs during Egypt's New Kingdom (c. 1550-1077 BCE). Prior research has tended to focus on either individual tombs, or…

Studying Religion, Past and Present

"In this book, renowned scholars discuss the past, present, and future of the study of religion in both antiquity and modernity, celebrating the contributions of Panayotis Pachis to the field. The co…

Thomas Radice

Ritual Performance in Early Chinese Thought

Examines performance as a fundamental feature of ritual in early Chinese thought and the ways in which performer/spectator relationships influenced early Chinese religious, ethical, and political discours…

Whit Dickey (geb. 1954)

Peace Planet & Box Of Light

Bernardo Ballesteros

Divine Assemblies in Early Greek and Babylonian Epic

This book is the first to chart divine assembly scenes in ancient Babylonian and early Greek epic. It asks why similarities between the two corpora exist, and exploits those similarities to enhance unders…

Jonathan S Burgess

The Travels of Odysseus

The Travels of Odysseus employs the theme of travel to explore the Odyssey and its contexts. After an introductory chapter, Chapter 2 provides analysis of the "wanderings" or Apologos of Odysseu…

Eva Mol

Style and Assemblage in Roman Archaeology

Style and Assemblage in Roman Archaeology proposes a rethinking of the way in which objects, styles, concepts, and people relate in archaeological interpretation, using Egyptian and Egyptian-styled object…

Wolfram Grajetzki

The Middle Kingdom of Ancient Egypt

"For the ancient Egyptians, the Middle Kingdom (c. 2000-1700 BC) was a classical period of art, history and literature. The Twelfth Dynasty was one of the strongest ever to rule on the banks of the N…

Harry Sidebottom

Those Who Are about to Die

See ancient Rome, and peer into the Roman mind, through the eyes of a gladiator--from the evening before the games at the Colosseum to the evening after"A grippingly original way of making the alien …

Hermeneutik(en) der Weisheit von der hebräischen Bibel bis in die islamische Zeit

Although scriptural discourses in late antiquity are eminently characterized by forms of wisdom thinking, wisdom is not yet an established category in Qur'anic and Islamic studies. The contributors to thi…

Lina Hantel

Bildung im Gespräch

Peter Chrysologus penned his sermons in such a way that they could become an educational experience. By analysing the sermons of this particular bishop of Ravenna, Lina Hantel paints a picture of how the …

Damien Stone

The Secret Sacred

With numerous images of artifacts, an illuminating investigation of the clandestine cults of the ancient world.The Secret Sacred explores the hidden religious practices of the classical world. These cults…

Catherine Hezser,

Rabbinic Scholarship in the Context of Late Antique Scholasticism

Based on an understanding of scholasticism as a cross-cultural phenomenon, undertaken by rabbinic, Graeco-Roman, and Christian scholars in late antiquity, this book examines the development of Palestinian…

John Surman & Jack DeJohnette

The Amazing Adventures Of Simon Simon (Touchstones)

John Surman und Jack DeJohnette waren schon seit 1968 musikalische Weggefährten, nahmen jedoch erst 1981 mit The Amazing Adventures Of Simon Simon ihr erstes Duo-Album auf. Die Leser von Jazz Forum wählte…

Nicolás M. Anders

Christianisierung des Habitus

In his sermons, Caesarius of Arles presents Christian teachings in an innovative manner and thereby initiates diverse educational processes among his listeners. Nicolás Manuel Anders explores these dynami…

Sankt Otten

Symmetrie und Wahnsinn

Nach dem 2020 erschienenen Album »Lieder Für Geometrische Stunden« beglücken uns Sankt Otten endlich wieder mit ihrer neuen Veröffentlichung »Symmetrie Und Wahnsinn«. Sankt Otten mögen Bilder der Unen…

Augustine,

The Teacher. Teaching Christianity

Magisterial pedagogy. Aurelius Augustine (AD 354-430), one of the most important figures in the development of western Christianity and philosophy, was the son of a pagan, Patricius of Tagaste, and his Ch…

Laozi,

DAO de Jing

This bold new translation by two brilliant poets offers a contemporary perspective on a timeless masterpiece of Daoist scripture, introducing the Dao De Jing to a new audience while retaining the majesty …