Author: C.H.J. Dr. De Geus
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004354492
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The Tribes of Israel
Author: C.H.J. Dr. De Geus
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004354492
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004354492
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Homo Necans
Author: Walter Burkert
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520058750
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
"A milestone, not only in the field of classics but in the wider field of the history of religion. . . . It will find a place alongside the works of Jane Ellen Harrison, Sir James George Frazer, Claude Levi-Strauss, and van Gennep."—Wendy Flaherty, Divinity School, University of Chicago "This book is a professional classic, an absolute must for any serious student of Greek religion."—Albert Henrichs, Harvard University
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520058750
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
"A milestone, not only in the field of classics but in the wider field of the history of religion. . . . It will find a place alongside the works of Jane Ellen Harrison, Sir James George Frazer, Claude Levi-Strauss, and van Gennep."—Wendy Flaherty, Divinity School, University of Chicago "This book is a professional classic, an absolute must for any serious student of Greek religion."—Albert Henrichs, Harvard University
To Hell with the Devil
Author: Albertus Pretorius
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
This book asks: Do we need the devil and demons to explain adversity, bad behavior, crime, disease, evil, and failures? Must we understand all allusion to the devil and demons in the holy Scriptures in a literal sense? Do these beings really exist? Or is Satan only a personification of all that is atrocious, bad, criminal, disagreeable, evil, frightening, gross, horrible, indecent, and wrong? It often happens that people live in fear and terror for the devil and his helpers, all sorts of evil spirits, sorcerers, wizards, and witches. How realistic is this fear? This is another ground-breaking book by theologian and scholar Albertus Pretorius. As in his previous books, he manages to provide new insights regarding controversial biblical subjects. In this case, he deals with the existence or non-existence of Satan and sinful spirits. The author explores what the conventional beliefs on Satan entail, as well as what a critical investigation of the holy Scriptures of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam can teach people of the twenty-first century about these perilous and pestilential personages.
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
This book asks: Do we need the devil and demons to explain adversity, bad behavior, crime, disease, evil, and failures? Must we understand all allusion to the devil and demons in the holy Scriptures in a literal sense? Do these beings really exist? Or is Satan only a personification of all that is atrocious, bad, criminal, disagreeable, evil, frightening, gross, horrible, indecent, and wrong? It often happens that people live in fear and terror for the devil and his helpers, all sorts of evil spirits, sorcerers, wizards, and witches. How realistic is this fear? This is another ground-breaking book by theologian and scholar Albertus Pretorius. As in his previous books, he manages to provide new insights regarding controversial biblical subjects. In this case, he deals with the existence or non-existence of Satan and sinful spirits. The author explores what the conventional beliefs on Satan entail, as well as what a critical investigation of the holy Scriptures of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam can teach people of the twenty-first century about these perilous and pestilential personages.
A History of Israel, Fourth Edition
Author: John Bright
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 1611642094
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 577
Book Description
Unsurpassed for nearly half a century, and now with a new introduction and appendix by William P. Brown, John Bright's A History of Israel will continue to be a standard for a new generation of students of the Old Testament. This book remains a classic in the literature of theological education.
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 1611642094
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 577
Book Description
Unsurpassed for nearly half a century, and now with a new introduction and appendix by William P. Brown, John Bright's A History of Israel will continue to be a standard for a new generation of students of the Old Testament. This book remains a classic in the literature of theological education.
Atlantis
Author: Arysio Santos
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
ISBN: 1556439563
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
The late author Arysio Santos was a highly regarded climatologist, geologist, and nuclear physicist. He was also a scholar of history, folklore, languages, and the occult. In this groundbreaking study of Atlantis, he draws on all these disciplines, as well as ancient maps, Plato’s dialogues, and folkloric narratives, to provide the most compelling case yet of the disappearance of an entire civilization. Professor Santos demonstrates that Plato’s dating of Atlantis’s disappearance in 11,600 BP (before present) precisely corresponds to the catastrophic end of the Pleistocene Ice Age, as well as a historic flood event of cataclysmic proportions. The rising of the sea level by nearly 500 feet, he argues, submerged continent-sized lands—including Atlantis, which he connects with the biblical Garden of Eden. Provocative chapters cover such topics as the continent’s appearance in ancient maps, Indonesia as the true site of Eden, American interpretations of Atlantis, the four rivers of paradise, and more, giving a clear form to the ghostly outline of this fabled land.
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
ISBN: 1556439563
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
The late author Arysio Santos was a highly regarded climatologist, geologist, and nuclear physicist. He was also a scholar of history, folklore, languages, and the occult. In this groundbreaking study of Atlantis, he draws on all these disciplines, as well as ancient maps, Plato’s dialogues, and folkloric narratives, to provide the most compelling case yet of the disappearance of an entire civilization. Professor Santos demonstrates that Plato’s dating of Atlantis’s disappearance in 11,600 BP (before present) precisely corresponds to the catastrophic end of the Pleistocene Ice Age, as well as a historic flood event of cataclysmic proportions. The rising of the sea level by nearly 500 feet, he argues, submerged continent-sized lands—including Atlantis, which he connects with the biblical Garden of Eden. Provocative chapters cover such topics as the continent’s appearance in ancient maps, Indonesia as the true site of Eden, American interpretations of Atlantis, the four rivers of paradise, and more, giving a clear form to the ghostly outline of this fabled land.
International Bibliography of the History of Religions
Author: Salih H. Alich, Claas Jouco Bleeker
Publisher: Brill Archive
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Publisher: Brill Archive
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
A History of Israel
Author: John Bright
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 9780664220686
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
A definitive text and resource for every student of the Old Testament, this fourth edition of John Bright's now classic work is newly introduced by William P. Brown.
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 9780664220686
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
A definitive text and resource for every student of the Old Testament, this fourth edition of John Bright's now classic work is newly introduced by William P. Brown.
Structure and History in Greek Mythology and Ritual
Author: Walter Burkert
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520047709
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
"Tantalizingly rich . . . this is a splendid book."--Greece and Rome "Burken relegates his learned documentation to the notes and writes in a lively and fluent style. The book is recommended as a major contribution to the interpretation of ancient Greek myth and ritual. The breadth alone of Burkert's learning renders his book indispensable."--Classical Outlook "Impressive. . . founded on a striking knowledge of the complex evidence (literary, epigraphical, archaeological, comparative) for this extensive subject. Burkert offers a rare combination of exact scholarship with imagination and even humor. A brilliant book, in which . . .the reader can see at every point what is going on in the author's mind--and that is never uninteresting, and rarely unimportant."--Times Literary Supplement "Burkert's work is of such magnitude and depth that it may even contribute to that most difficult of tasks, defining myth, ritual, and religion. . [He] locates his work in the context of culture and the historv of ideas, and he is not hesitant to draw on sociology and biology. Consequently his work is of significance for philosophers, historians, and even theologians, as well as for classicists and historians of Greek culture. His hypotheses are courageous and his conclusions are bold; both establish standards for methodology as well as results. "--Religious Studies Review
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520047709
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
"Tantalizingly rich . . . this is a splendid book."--Greece and Rome "Burken relegates his learned documentation to the notes and writes in a lively and fluent style. The book is recommended as a major contribution to the interpretation of ancient Greek myth and ritual. The breadth alone of Burkert's learning renders his book indispensable."--Classical Outlook "Impressive. . . founded on a striking knowledge of the complex evidence (literary, epigraphical, archaeological, comparative) for this extensive subject. Burkert offers a rare combination of exact scholarship with imagination and even humor. A brilliant book, in which . . .the reader can see at every point what is going on in the author's mind--and that is never uninteresting, and rarely unimportant."--Times Literary Supplement "Burkert's work is of such magnitude and depth that it may even contribute to that most difficult of tasks, defining myth, ritual, and religion. . [He] locates his work in the context of culture and the historv of ideas, and he is not hesitant to draw on sociology and biology. Consequently his work is of significance for philosophers, historians, and even theologians, as well as for classicists and historians of Greek culture. His hypotheses are courageous and his conclusions are bold; both establish standards for methodology as well as results. "--Religious Studies Review
In Search of Origins
Author: Garry Trompf
Publisher: Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd
ISBN: 9781932705515
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Religion is an integral part of our life. The answer to the question what is religion is subjective. Since the word `religion' and its cognates are common coinage across the literate world, most of us will have a fair appreciation of the term's connotations. Considering students and scholars alike are lacking an introductory textbook on the origins of religion in modern Western theory and archaeological practice, this work is designed to fill the lacuna. Historians of ideas and social science are often not clear as to how any given theory of religion might pertain to the known archaeological record, while exponents of prehistoric religion have worked with surprisingly narrow definitions of religious life. Many will locate the kernel of the matter in `practice' or in an active `spirituality'. Today the pressures of the global village have forced many of us to take off our blinkers and do some cross cultural homework. Religious Studies has emerged as an academic discipline (or intellectual pursuit) with one of its functions being to facilitate mutual understanding between traditions, and to ensure that the varieties of religious belief and experience are fairly appraised. The series, of which this book is a part, will be historically rather than theologically oriented. This book will cover such a vast area for investigation and it is designed to help students find their own way through the forest, pick the trees which interest them and learn how to scrutinise them in depth. Religious Studies is a multi-disciplinary activity and one is encouraged to turn over as many stones as possible to look at religions from as many different angles as possible--the psychological, anthropological, sociological, geographical, ecological, political, economic and the like-with some awareness of current theological debates as well. This book gives scope to the comparative method and all the great religions are treated side-by-side, with points of comparison and contrast drawn. This book begin with the large question of the origins and prehistory of religion, including the bearing anthropological study has on this question, before giving space to the larger traditions themselves. The comparative method is applied not only between such enormous aggregates of phenomena as (let us say) Buddhism and Islam, but between these and small-scale, tribal traditions as well. The book highlights that some religions will be difficult to separate from cultures because they amount to a total way of life. An attempt is made to try to interpret religion both as culture and as a distinctive set of forces in interaction with culture, or perhaps even against prevailing cultural forms. This book has been designed to help students find for themselves possible answers to existential or theological questions, but only as a side-effect to historical and phenomenological study, and as the author says "provide no such answers on a platter."
Publisher: Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd
ISBN: 9781932705515
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Religion is an integral part of our life. The answer to the question what is religion is subjective. Since the word `religion' and its cognates are common coinage across the literate world, most of us will have a fair appreciation of the term's connotations. Considering students and scholars alike are lacking an introductory textbook on the origins of religion in modern Western theory and archaeological practice, this work is designed to fill the lacuna. Historians of ideas and social science are often not clear as to how any given theory of religion might pertain to the known archaeological record, while exponents of prehistoric religion have worked with surprisingly narrow definitions of religious life. Many will locate the kernel of the matter in `practice' or in an active `spirituality'. Today the pressures of the global village have forced many of us to take off our blinkers and do some cross cultural homework. Religious Studies has emerged as an academic discipline (or intellectual pursuit) with one of its functions being to facilitate mutual understanding between traditions, and to ensure that the varieties of religious belief and experience are fairly appraised. The series, of which this book is a part, will be historically rather than theologically oriented. This book will cover such a vast area for investigation and it is designed to help students find their own way through the forest, pick the trees which interest them and learn how to scrutinise them in depth. Religious Studies is a multi-disciplinary activity and one is encouraged to turn over as many stones as possible to look at religions from as many different angles as possible--the psychological, anthropological, sociological, geographical, ecological, political, economic and the like-with some awareness of current theological debates as well. This book gives scope to the comparative method and all the great religions are treated side-by-side, with points of comparison and contrast drawn. This book begin with the large question of the origins and prehistory of religion, including the bearing anthropological study has on this question, before giving space to the larger traditions themselves. The comparative method is applied not only between such enormous aggregates of phenomena as (let us say) Buddhism and Islam, but between these and small-scale, tribal traditions as well. The book highlights that some religions will be difficult to separate from cultures because they amount to a total way of life. An attempt is made to try to interpret religion both as culture and as a distinctive set of forces in interaction with culture, or perhaps even against prevailing cultural forms. This book has been designed to help students find for themselves possible answers to existential or theological questions, but only as a side-effect to historical and phenomenological study, and as the author says "provide no such answers on a platter."
Scripta minora, 2 voll
Author:
Publisher: Ed. di Storia e Letteratura
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Publisher: Ed. di Storia e Letteratura
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description