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Published 1992
On Proclus and his influence in medieval philosophy /

: Proclus (c. 410 - 485) was one of the major Greek philosophers of late Antiquity. In his metaphysics he developed and systematized fundamental problems of Plato's thought, such as participation; transcendence - immanence; causation - participation - return; henads and monads. In a theological way he interpreted some of Plato's dialogues. In the tradition of the neo-platonic school of Athens he tried to bring together Orpheus, Pythagoras and Plato. Before and after his works had been translated into Latin, Proclus influenced the Christian West through the Liber de causis (\'Book of Causes\'), a Latin translation of an anonymous Arab version of his Elementatio theologica . Among those who commented on the Liber or on some of its theses, were many well-known philosophers: Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas, Master Eckhart, Berthold of Moosberg and William of Ockham. The Liber de causis stimulated discussions about the concepts of God, first and second causality, universals, metaphysics of being as opposed to metaphysics of the one. In the volume various specialists discuss these problems: Saffrey, De Rijk, Meyer, Steel, De Libera, Aertsen, Beierwaltes and Bos.
: Papers presented at a symposium held Sept. 7-8, 1989 at the University of Leiden.
Contributions in English, French, or German. : 1 online resource (vi, 206 pages) : Includes bibliographical references (p. 190-199) and index. : 9789004320758 : 0079-1687 ; : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2012
Religion and the Body : modern science and the construction of religious meaning /

: This book reflects on the implications of neurobiology and the scientific worldview on aspects of religious experience, belief, and practice. Just as interest in the neurosciences and related fields has burgeoned in contemporary society, interest in the fields of neuroscience and cognitive studies is also growing within the religious studies academy, and reflection on these shifts is well overdue. How do religious practitioners negotiate the interconnection of science and religion? What can the neurosciences add to scholars' understanding of religion and to how humans construct religious meaning? Chapters address these questions by investigating religious experience and authority, the cultural construction and deconstruction of the body, and cross-cultural appropriations of the body.
: 1 online resource (285 pages) : 9789004225343 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2011
The history of French-speaking Protestantism in Québec /

: Although French-speaking Canadians have largely been Roman Catholic, there has been a small, but significant Protestant minority among them for much of their history. Several important studies on these Protestants have appeared in French or in short articles in English, but there is no broader survey in English. Based on significant archival study, a fresh reading of printed texts and the work of a generation of historians, this collection of essays brings together the work of leading scholars in the field to bring reasoned perspective on various narratives of the history of this often forgotten religious minority. This collection highlights international and inter-confessional networks, the various stages of external and internal mission, the periods of growth and decline, and the cultural and political heritage of these Protestants.
: 1 online resource. : Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. : 9789004211797 : 1542-1279 ; : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2016
Brill's companion to the reception of classics in international modernism and the avant-garde /

: Brill's Companion to the Reception of Classics in International Modernism and the Avant-Garde examines how the writers and artists who lived from roughly the last quarter of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth sought to build a new world from the ashes of one marked by two world wars, global economic depression, the rise of nationalism, and the collapse of empires. By surveying the modernist appropriation of Ancient Greece and Rome, the fourteen chapters in this volume demonstrate how the Classics, as foundational texts of the old order, were nevertheless adapted to suit the stylistic innovation and formal experimentation that characterized modernist and avant-garde literature and art.
: 1 online resource. : 9789004335493 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2000
De Memphis à Rome : actes du Ier Colloque international sur les études isiaques, Poitiers-- Futuroscope, 8-10 avril 1999 /

: The studies of the Isiac Cults are forty years old. Many of the scholars who have contributed to the development of this particular field of research, - the diffusion of the Egyptian cults in the Graeco-Roman world -, met in the Futuroscope of Poitiers for a three-day colloquium, to establish the progress of research, and the subjects which need more discussion. The synthesis of this colloquium is presented in this volume. The best specialists in the world give their assessment of the past forty years of research: which tools do students and scholars have? Which -provisional- conclusions can be drawn about, for example, the hellenization of Isis, the reality of the Roman soldier's devotion to Isis or Sarapis, the celebration of the Isiaca in Rome from Republican days well into the Empire? This volume is a very useful update on what we do and do not know in the study of the Isiac cults in the Graeco-Roman world.
: 1 online resource (xxv, 216 pages) : illustrations, map. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004295933 : 0927-7633 ; : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2017
Rhetorical strategies in late antique literature : images, metatexts and interpretation /

: Rhetorical Strategies in Late Antique Literature: Images, Metatexts and Interpretation is a collection of essays that survey the rhetorical tropes and the metaliterary dimension of works by important authors in a period marked by intense and thriving contact between Classical paideia and Christian culture. The contributions of this volume dissect the reuse of Classical literature and the deployment of rhetorical techniques in the creation of texts and images meant for use in cultural and religious debates by building on recent interpretations of the late antique cultural landscape as a milieu in which our understanding of religious dichotomies requires a more nuanced reassessment. The authors treated in this volume include Eusebius of Caesarea, Methodius of Olympus, Gregory of Nazianzus, Nonnus and the emperor Julian.
: 1 online resource. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004340114 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2008
Scripture and traditions : essays on early Judaism and Christianity in honor of Carl R. Holladay /

: This volume contains twenty-two essays in honor of Carl R. Holladay, whose work on the interaction between early Christianity and Hellenistic Judaism has had a considerable impact on the study of the New Testament. The essays are grouped into three sections: Hellenistic Judaism; the New Testament in Context; and the History of Interpretation. Among the contributions are essays dealing with conversion in Greek-speaking Judaism and Christianity; 3 Maccabees as a narrative satire; retribution theology in Luke-Acts; church discipline in Matthew; the Exodus and comparative chronology in Jewish and patristic writings; corporal punishment in ancient Israel and early Christianity; and Die Judenfrage and the construction of ancient Judaism.
: 1 online resource. : "Publications of Carl R. Holladay": pages ([457]-459).
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. : 9789047442011 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2018
Brill's companion to classics and early anthropology /

: The chapters in Brill's Companion to Classics and Early Anthropology explore key points of interaction between classics and anthropology from the eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Ancient Greece and Rome played varying roles in early anthropological thinking, from the observations of colonial officials and missionaries, through the ethnography and evolutionary ethnology of the late nineteenth century, and into the professionalized social sciences of the twentieth century. The chapters illuminate these roles and uncover an intellectual history of fission and fusion, exposing common interests and opposing methodologies, shared theories and conflicting datasets, close collaborations and adversarial estrangements. In augmenting and reevaluating this history, the volume offers a new and nuanced picture of the early formative relationship between the two disciplines.
: 1 online resource (xiii, 406 pages) : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004365001 : 2213-1426 ; : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2003
Andreia : studies in manliness and courage in classical antiquity /

: This volume examines the use of a central concept in the self-definition of any Greek speaking male: Andreia , the notion of courage and manliness. The nature and use of value terms quickly leads the researcher to core issues of cultural identity: through a combination of lexical or semantic and conceptual studies the discourse of manliness and its role in the construction of social order is studied, in a variety of authors, genres, and communicative situations. This book is of interest to students of the classical world, the history of values, gender studies, and cultural historians.
: 1 online resource (359 pages) : illustrations. : Includes bibliographical references and indexes. : 9789047400738 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2007
Platonisms : ancient, modern, and postmodern /

: The present volume argues that Plato and Platonism should be understood not as a series of determinate doctrines or philosophical facts to be pinned down once and for all, but rather as an inexhaustible mine of possible trajectories. The book examines in this light different strands of Platonic thinking from the dialogues themselves through later Antiquity and the Medieval World into Modernity and Post-Modernity with new essays ranging from Descartes, Kant, Hegel, and Natorp to Yeats, Levinas and Derrida. And also suggests the possibility of reading the dialogues and the whole tradition resonating in and through them in new, unexpected ways.
: 1 online resource. : Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-271) and index. : 9789047420163 : 1871-188X ; : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2015
East and West in the Roman Empire of the fourth century : an end to unity? /

: East and West in the Roman Empire of the Fourth Century examines the (dis)unity of the Roman Empire in the fourth century from different angles, in order to offer a broad perspective on the topic and avoid an overvaluation of the political division of the empire in 395. After a methodological key-paper on the concepts of unity, the other contributors elaborate on these notions from various geo-political perspectives: the role of the army and taxation, geographical perspectives, the unity of the Church and the perception of the divisio regni of 364. Four case-studies follow, illuminating the role of concordia apostolorum , antique sports, eunuchs and the poet Prudentius on the late antique view of the Empire. Despite developments to the contrary, it appears that the Roman Empire remained (to be viewed as) a unity in all strata of society.
: 1 online resource (ix, 183 pages) : illustrations, maps. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004291935 : 2213-9729 ; : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2013
Narrative ethics /

: While Plato recommended expelling poets from the ideal society, W. H. Auden famously declared that poetry makes nothing happen. The 19 contributions to the present book avoid such polarized views and, responding in different ways to the "ethical turn" in narrative theory, explore the varied ways in which narratives encourage readers to ponder matters of right and wrong. All work from the premise that the analysis of narrative ethics needs to be linked to a sensitivity to esthetic (narrative) form. The ethical issues are accordingly located on different levels. Some are clearly presented as thematic concerns within the text(s) considered, while others emerge through (or are generated by) the presentation of character and event by means of particular narrative techniques. The objects of analysis include such well-known or canonical texts as Biblical Old Testament stories, Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn , J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings , Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita , Jonathan Littell's The Kindly Ones , Ann Radcliffe's The Italian and Matthew Lewis's The Monk . Others concentrate on less-well-known texts written in languages other than English. There are also contributions that investigate theoretical issues in relation to a range of different examples.
: "The chapters of this volume are revised versions of papers given at an international conference on narrative theory and analysis arranged at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Oslo, 19-20 November 2010"--Preface. : 1 online resource (xii, 313 pages) : color illustrations. : Includes bibliographical references and indexes. : 9789401209823 : 0929-8436 ; : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2013
Imperium der Götter : Isis, Mithras, Christus : Kulte und Religionen im Römischen Reich /

: OCLC 863951591
Catalog of an exhibition in the Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe, 16 November 2013 through 18 May 2014. : 480 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (pages 461-475) : 9783806228717 : https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/staffView?searchId=3563&recPointer=0&recCount=25&searchType=0&bibId=18582412
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Published 2013
Pottery, pavements, and paradise : iconographic and textual studies on late antiquity /

: These essays on late antiquity traverse a territory in which Christian and pagan imagery and practices compete, coexist, and intermingle. The iconography of the most significant late antique ceramic, African Red Slip Ware, is an important and relatively unexploited vehicle for documenting the diversity and interpenetration of late antique cultures. Literary texts and art in other media, particularly mosaics, provide imagery that complement and enhance the messages of the ceramics. Popular entertainments, pagan cults, mythic heroes, beasts, monsters, and biblical visions are themes dealt with on the patrician and popular levels. With interpretive supplements from these diverse realms, it is possible to achieve greater insight into the life, attitudes, and thought of Late Antiquity.
: 1 online resource (xxii, 582 pages) : illustrations (some color) : Includes bibliographical references (p. 435-459) and index. : 9789004256934 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2012
Brill's companion to Sophocles /

: Brill's Companion to Sophocles offers 32 specially commissioned essays from leading international scholars which give critical examinations of the progress and direction of numerous wide-ranging debates about various aspects of Sophoclean drama. Each chapter offers an authoritative and state-of-the-art survey of current thinking and research in a particular subject area, as well as covering a wide variety of thematic angles. Recent advances in scholarship have raised new questions about Sophocles and Greek tragedy, and have overturned some long-standing assumptions. Besides presenting a comprehensive and authoritative guide to understanding Sophocles, this companion provides scholars and students with compelling fresh perspectives upon a broad range of issues in the field of Sophoclean studies.
: Errata slip included. : 1 online resource (xxii, 737 pages) : Includes bibliographical references (p. 661-714) and indexes. : 9789004217621 : 1872-3357 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 1957
Volume du Congres, Strasbourg, 1956.

: French, English, and German.
Papers read at the Congrès international pour l'étude de l'Ancien Testament, held in Strasbourg, August 27-September 1, 1956. Cf. preface.
Die neubabylonische Chronik über die Schlacht bei Karkemisch und die Einnahme von Jerusalem / von E. Vogt -- La bénédiction de Jacob : son cadre historique à la lumière des parallèles ougaritiques / par J. Coppens -- Les origines de la civilisation selon les textes bibliques et les textes cuneiformes / par G. Castellino -- Silo und Jerusalem / von Otto Eissfeldt -- The Qumran manuscripts and textual criticism / by P.W. Skehan -- Ist die typologische Exegese sachgemässe Exegese? / von Walther Eichrodt -- Ursprung und Grundzüge des Messiasbildes bei Isajas / von H. Junker -- Quelques rapports entre Juifs et Iraniens à l'époque des Parthes / par G. Widengren -- The high place in ancient Palestine / by W.F. Albright. : 1 online resource (258 pages, [4] leaves of plates) : illustrations, facsimiles, maps, group portrait. : Includes bibliographical references. : 9789004275270 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2006
Sôfer mahîr : essays in honour of Adrian Schenker /

: The essays that comprise this volume in honor of Adrian Schenker address a variety of issues and topics in the field of textual criticism and the textual history of the Hebrew Bible. Except for the Book of Kings, the contributors are editors of individual Biblical books for the new Biblia Hebraica Quinta . The topics of the essays range from assessments of the overall textual situation for a particular book to investigations of translation technique to studies of particularities in the Leningrad Codex and its Masorah. Most books of the Hebrew Scriptures are treated in one of the essays.
: 1 online resource. : Includes bibliographical references and indexes. : 9789047409106 : 0083-5889 ; : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2014
Flavian poetry and its Greek past /

: Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past breaks new ground by investigating the close interaction between Flavian poetry and Greek literary tradition and by evaluating the meaning of this affiliation in the socio-political and cultural context of the late first century CE. Authors examined include Martial, Silius Italicus, Statius, and Valerius Flaccus. Their interaction with Greek literature is not just thematic or geographical: the Greek literary past is conceived as the poetic influence of a variety of authors, periods, and genres, such as Homer, the Cyclic tradition, Greek lyric poetry, Greek tragedy, Hellenistic poetry and aesthetics, and Greek historiography.
: 1 online resource. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004266490

Published 2015
Brill's Companion to Ancient Geography /

: Brill's Companion to Ancient Geography edited by S. Bianchetti, M. R. Cataudella, H. J. Gehrke is the first collection of studies on historical geography of the ancient world that focuses on a selection of topics considered crucial for understanding the development of geographical thought. In this work, scholars, all of whom are specialists in a variety of fields, examine the interaction of humans with their environment and try to reconstruct the representations of the inhabited world in the works of ancient historians, scientists, and cartographers. Topics include: Eudoxus, Dicaearchus, Eratosthenes, Hipparchus, Agatharchides, Agrippa, Strabo, Pliny and Solinus, Ptolemy, and the Peutinger Map. Other issues are also discussed such as onomastics, the boundaries of states, Pythagorism, sacred itineraries, measurement systems, and the Holy Land.
: Title from content provider. : 1 online resource (xviii, 490 pages) : 9789004284715 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2015
Understanding New Perspectives of Spirituality /

: 1 online resource. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9781848883772