Envisioning Magic, A Princeton Seminar and Symposium.
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This collection of twelve articles presents a selection of papers delivered in the course of a seminar 1994-95 and its concluding international symposium at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. The common theme is the interrelation between magic and religion, focussing particularly on the Mediterranean world in Antiquity - Egyptian, Graeco-Roman and Jewish beliefs and customs - but also treating the early modern period in Northern Europe (the Netherlands and Germany) as well as offering more general reflections on elements of magic in language and Jewish mysticism. The volume is characterized by an interdisciplinary approach and the use of varied methodologies, emphasizing the dynamic nature of the often contradictory forces shaping religious beliefs and practices, while dismissing the idea of a linear development from magic to religion or vice versa. The contributors are outstanding scholars in their fields: Ancient, Medieval and Modern History, Religious Studies, Jewish Studies, Classical Studies, Early Christianity, Islamic Studies, Anthropology, Egyptology and Comparative Literature. Without a doubt this re-evaluation of a fascinating age-old subject will stimulate scholarly discussion and appeal to educated non-specialist readers as well.
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1 online resource. :
9789004378971
Roman Army Papers /
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The forty-four papers, with addenda and indices, written between 1940 and 1985 embody a lifetime's work by this eminent Princeton scholar, noted for his deft handling of the inscriptions and papyri on which our knowledge of the Roman army rests.
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1 online resource (481 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004663817
New perspectives on Aristotle's De caelo /
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This volume is the first collection of scholarly articles in any modern language devoted to Aristotle's De caelo . It grew out of series of workshops held at Princeton, Cambridge, and Paris in the late 1990's. Since Aristotle's De caelo had a major influence on cosmological thinking until the time of Galileo and Kepler and helped to shape the way in which Western civilization imagined its natural environment and place at the center of the universe, familiarity with the main doctrines of the De caelo is a prerequisite for an understanding of much of the thought and culture of antiquity and the Middle Ages. This book is also available in paperback.
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Papers presented at a series of workshops held at Princeton, Cambridge and Paris in the late 1990's. :
1 online resource. :
"Aristotle's De caelo: a bibliography"--P. [283]-298.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. :
9789004189829 :
0079-1687 ; :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
Newsletter, Number 83 (OCTOBER 1972)
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CONTENTS:
Donald Edgar 1907-1972--
Notes from Princeton--
ARCE Membership--
ARCE Fellows 1972-73--
ARCE-Sponsored Expeditions and Projects 1972-73--
Computer Typesetting for Arabic Script Literatures / by Pierre A. MacKay--
The Computer as an Instructional Device / by Victorine Abboud--
Toward A Reassessment / by David Waines--
Notes on Activities in Cairo--
The Center's Guest Book--
Program of Papers 1972 Annual Meetings--
Abstracts of Papers.
Newsletter, Number 87 (OCTOBER 1973)
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CONTENTS:
Jasper Yeates Brinton 1878-1973--
Henry L. F. Lutz 1886-1973--
Notes from Princeton--
ARCE-Sponsored Expeditions and Projects 1973-74 The Akhenaten Temple Project of the University--
Museum, Philadelphia / by Donald B. Redford--
Why Study Islamic Astronomy? / by David A. King--
Algeria and Baghdad Conferences of 1973 / by Michael W. Suleiman--
Notes on Activities in Egypt--
The Center’s Guest Book--
1973 Annual Meeting - Abstracts of Papers.
Newsletter, Number 80 (JANUARY 1972)
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CONTENTS:
Notes from Princeton--
ARCE Fellows for 1971-72--
Archaeological and Other Projects Sponsored / by ARCE in 1971 - 1972--
Interim Report of the 1971 Season of the Fustat Expedition / by Dr. George T. Scanlon--
Why Study Ottoman Egypt? / by Peter Gran--
Universita Degli Studi Di Roma / by Professor Sergio Donadoni--
Warding Off An Eclipse / by Bulbul Abdel Meguid (”Omm Sety”)--
Notes on Activities in Egypt--
The Center's Guest Book--
Abstracts of Papers Presented at Annual Meeting--
Minutes of 1971 Annual Meeting.
Newsletter, Number 91 (FALL 1974)
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CONTENTS:
Notes from Princeton--
Projects 1974-75--
ARCE Fellows 1974-75--
Prospective Members--
Continuation of the Epigraphic and Architectural Survey, The Oriental Institute, The üniversity of Chicago, Luxor / by Kent R.--
Weeks Editing the Nag Hammadi Codices / by James M. Robinson--
Pennsylvania—Yale-Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Giza Project, Summer 1974 / by William Kelly Simpson--
A New Sounding Device to Assist Archaeological Exploration / by Lambert T. Dolphin --
Notes on Activities in Egypt--
The Center's Guest Book--
1974 Annual Meeting Abstracts of Papers.
Newsletter, Number 95 (FALL 1975 - WINTER 1976)
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CONTENTS:
1975 Annual Meeting Abstracts of Papers The Amarna Period of Eighteenth Dynasty Egypt--
A Bibliography: 1965-1974 by Edward K. Werner Society and Stress: Crises, Disorders and Disasters in Mamluk Egypt / by William F. Tucker--
Accumulation and Quantitative Analysis of Numismatic Data for a Study of Mediaeval Egyptian Production of Gold Coinage / by A. S. Ehrenkreutz--
The Center’s Guest Book--
Memorial Jazz Collection at USIS Library In Cairo to Honor Toto Misketian--
ARCE Membership--
Minutes of Meeting of Members--
Notes Erom Princeton.
Daidalos and the origins of Greek art /
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In a major revisionary approach to ancient Greek culture, this title invokes as a paradigm the myths surrounding Daidalos to describe the profound influence of the Near East on Greece's artistic and literary origins.
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Reprint. Originally published: 1992. :
xxx, 411 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. :
9780691001609
Newsletter, Number 76 (JANUARY 1971)
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CONTENTS:
The Passing of a Leader--
Notes from Princeton--
The Roentgenographic Study of the New Kingdom Pharaohs of the Cairo Museum--
And Never the Twain Shall Meet? by Ralph M. Coury--
On Getting Around in the Cairo Archives / by F. Robert Hunter--
Further Notes on Research Facilities in the U.A.R. by / Melissa Coury--
Government of the U.A.R--
Campagne de Fouilles de Universita di Roma by Sergio Donadoni--
Report on the Third Season of the Austrian Excavations in the Asasif, Luxor-West (November 1970) / by Manfred Bietak--
Egyptological Plans in Yugoslavia by / Bernarda Perc--
At the Cairo Museum by Leonard H. Lesko Notes on Activities in the U.A.R. Department of Antiquities--
Other Expeditions--
The Center's Guest Book--
Minutes of Meeting of Members--
Abstracts of some of the Papers presented at the 1970 Annual Meeting.
Bible translation and the spread of the church : the last 200 years /
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The growth of the Church in the last two centuries has been paralleled by an explosion in the number of languages into which all or part of the Bible has been translated. This book is perhaps the first serious effort to examine a number of issues related to that phenomenon, among them how theology can affect the kind of translation prepared, and how the type of translation itself can affect the theology of a church. It also addresses the topics of why a church generally develops faster and with a deeper faith if it has the Bible; how decisions of text, canon, exegesis, type of language and type of translation are related to the matter of authority; what forces are at play in a culture to which a translator must be sensitive; and how Bible translation affects a society and culture. The authors of these papers are distinguished scholars in the fields of missiology, history, cultural anthropology, theology or church history. Some address theological issues of Bible translation, and others the cultural and political questions. But ultimately they conclude that if the church of tomorrow is to grow, and not be fragmented, then access to the Bible will be crucial.
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Contains the major papers presented at the Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton, N.J., October 29th-31st, 1988. :
1 online resource (xii, 154 pages) :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9789004318182 :
0924-9389 ; :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
Toward the Millennium, Messianic Expectations from the Bible to Waco.
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This collection of 16 articles represents a selection of the papers delivered in the course of a seminar (1995-1996) at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and its concluding joint symposium held at the Institute and Princeton University. Wide-ranging in scope, the volume covers messianic expectations from biblical times up to modern and contemporaneous adaptations, whereby the focus lies on the messianic concept within Judaism: diversity and variety of messianic expectations in antiquity; messianic movements at the time of the Crusades and around the fifth millennium (1240); the 'Pseudo'-Messiah Sabbatai Avi in the early modern period; the philosophers Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig and Walter Benjamin with respect to their thinking about messianism as well as the Lubavitch movement. Also included are investigations on pagan Graeco-Roman writings and messianic strands in the medieval and baroque Christian context. The section on the modern period contains contributions dealing with the Ahmaddiyya movement in India, messianic currents in the socio-political culture of the Weimar Republic as well as certain messianic aspects in the very recent so-called Branch Davidian community in Waco, Texas. The broad spectrum of stimulating analyses provides a fresh re-evaluation of an apparently timeless phenomenon.
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1 online resource. :
9789004378995
Histories of the Middle East studies in Middle Eastern society, economy and law in honor of A.L. Udovitch /
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For four decades Abraham L. Udovitch has been a leading scholar of the medieval Islamic world, its economic institutions, social structures, and legal theory and practice. In pursuing his quest to understand and explain the complex phenomena that these broad rubrics entail, he has published widely, collaborated internationally with other leading scholars of the Middle East and medieval history, and most saliently for the purposes of this volume, taught several cohorts of students at Princeton University. This volume is therefore dedicated to his intellectual legacy from a uniquely revealing angle: the current work of his former students. The papers in this volume range chronologically from the period preceding the rise of Islam in Arabia to the Mamluk era, geographically from the Western Mediterranean to the Western Indian Ocean and thematically from the political negotiations of Christian and Islamic Mediterranean sovereigns to the historiography of Western Indian Ocean port cities.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004214736 :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
"Convinced that God had called us" : dreams, visions, and the perception of God's will in Luke-Acts /
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Dream and vision scenes figure prominently in Luke-Acts. Following a discussion of methodology, historical background, and critical scholarship, this study provides a comprehensive examination of the dreams and visions in the Lukan narrative. Special attention is given to those scenes that feature significant interpretation by characters in the story (e.g., Zechariah and Mary [Luke 1-2], Saul's/Paul's conversion [Acts 9, 22, and 26], the Cornelius-Peter episode [Acts 10:1-11:18], and Paul's dream at Troas [Acts 16:9-10]). While a number of studies have highlighted the importance of dreams and visions for Luke's portrayal of God, the present study suggests that the human side of these visionary encounters is equally important. Just as Lukan dreams and visions depict God's active involvement in the events of human history, they also depict God's people attempting to perceive God's will through these visionary encounters.
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Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Princeton Theological Seminary. :
1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-257) and indexes. :
9789047411420 :
0928-0731 ; :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.