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Work, labour, and professions in the Roman world /
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The economic success of the Roman Empire was unparalleled in the West until the early modern period. While favourable natural conditions, capital accumulation, technology and political stability all contributed to this, economic performance ultimately depended on the ability to mobilize, train and co-ordinate human work efforts. In Work, Labour, and Professions in the Roman World , the authors discuss new insights, ideas and interpretations on the role of labour and human resources in the Roman economy. They study the various ways in which work was mobilised and organised and how these processes were regulated. Work as a production factor, however, is not the exclusive focus of this volume. Throughout the chapters, the contributors also provide an analysis of work as a social and cultural phenomenon in Ancient Rome.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. :
9789004331686 :
1572-0500 ; :
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Marine archaeology : developments during sixty years in the Mediterranean /
: Based on the work originally published in 1960 by the Confédération mondiale des activités subaquatiques under title : Le plongeur et l'archéologue. : 208 page : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 26 cm. : Includes bibliographical references.
Religious propaganda and missionary competition in the New Testament world : essays honoring Dieter Georgi /
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Religious Propaganda is a pivotal concept for the Hellenistic and Roman epochs in the History of Religions. The term refers to the various competing religious and philosophical movements and currents during those periods. Renowned scholars (H. Attridge, K. Baltzer, J. Collins, A. Dewey, H. Koester, A.T. Kraabel, D. Lührmann, J. Robinson, W. Schottroff, E. Schüssler Fiorenza, A. Yarbro Collins and others) interpret Pagan, Jewish, and Christian sources with a view toward elucidating the confrontation of Jewish and Christian groups with their respective social, economic, religious, and political contexts. The authors seek to demonstrate the significance of missionary and propagandistic themes as well as strategies for the self-understanding of Jews and Christians at the turn of the eras. The articles, 25 in all, draw upon the broad expanse of scholarly work in the History of Religions pertaining to this period: the authors discuss methodology and the state of research, and they forge ahead in the exploration of the intertestamental and New Testament writings.
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English and German. :
1 online resource (ix, 570 pages) : illustrations. :
"Bibliography of Dieter Georgi": pages 551-558.
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004267084 :
0167-9732 ; :
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Jacob Böhme and his world
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Jacob Böhme (1575-1624) is famous as a shoemaker and spiritual author. His works and thought are frequently studied as a product of his mystical illumination. Jacob Böhme and His World adopts a different perspective. It seeks to demystify Böhme by focusing on aspects of his immediate cultural and social context and the intellectual currents of his time, including Böhme's writing as literature, the social conditions in Görlitz, Böhme's correspondence networks, a contemporary "crisis of piety," Paracelsian and kabbalistic currents, astrology, astronomy and alchemy, and his relationship to other dissenting authors. Relevant facets of reception include Böhme's philosophical standing, his contributions to pre-Pietism, and early English translations of his works.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004385092 :
1871-1405 ;
The world of the pharaohs /
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The story of a thirteen-year-old Egyptian boy's interest in his father's work as an archeologist is the vehicle for this history of Egyptian civilization and survey of the remarkable antiquities found in the Nile Valley during the past century.
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Translation of : Die Welt der Pharaonen. :
255 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Christian Arabic Apologetics during the Abbasid Period (750-1258).
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During the first six-seven centuries of the Islamic era there was a very lively exchange between Christian and Islamic thinking. It was a period when Christian theologians of various denominations had to find ways of expressing their traditional ideas in Arabic. In the process their thinking developed. The papers in this volume represent the wide range of this field, including detailed studies of such key writers as Abū Rā'itah, Yaḥyā born 'Adī and Theodore Abū Qūrrah, as well as probably the earliest, anonymous, Christian apology in Arabic. The Islamic context in which such writers worked is also dealt with, as is the wider geographical spread of Christian Arabic thought extending to Islamic Spain.
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1 online resource. :
9789004378858
Philosophy in the Islamic World : Volume 4/1: 19th-20th Centuries: The Arabic-Speaking Region /
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Philosophy in the Islamic World is a comprehensive and unprecedented four-volume reference work devoted to the history of philosophy in the realms of Islam, from its beginnings in the eighth century AD down to modern times. The focus of this fourth installment of the series, divided into two volumes, is the 19th and 20th centuries and geographically on the Arab countries, the Ottoman-Turkish region, Iran, and Muslim South Asia. During this time philosophy was pursued at Islamic institutions and increasingly in Western-style universities, but philosophy also had an impact beyond academia. In each chapter, an international expert on philosophy in this period explores the teachings of individual philosophers, philosophical movements (philosophy of religion, logical empiricism, deconstructionism, etc.), and schools (for instance the continuation of Mullā Ṣadrā's philosophy of being). Debates over cultural authenticity, political rule, gender, and other major issues are also presented. This is the English version of the relevant volume of the Ueberweg, the most authoritative German reference work on the history of philosophy, which updates the German version ( Philosophie in der Islamischen Welt Band 4/1: 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Arabischer Sprachraum , Basel: Schwabe, 2021) by providing references to the latest scholarly literature. Contributors Katajun Amirpur, Sadik Jalal al-Azm, Serpil Çakır, Frank Darwiche, Bettina Dennerlein, Sarhan Dhouib, Zeynep Direk, Michael Frey, Urs Gösken, Ursula Günther, Reza Hajatpour, Jan-Peter Hartung, Christoph Herzog, Elisabeth Susanne Kassab, Mohamed Aziz Lahbabi, Kata Moser, Sait Özervarlı, Nils Riecken, Sajjad Rizvi, Ruggero Vimercati Sanseverino, Roman Seidel and Harald Viersen. See Less
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1 online resource (700 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004710498
The Greek world of Apuleius : Apuleius and the second sophistic /
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The first three chapters of this book elucidate the scholastic goals of both classical cultures during the Roman Imperial period. Apuleius' works share the stage in these chapters with representatives of the second-century Greek cultural paradigm. They define patterns of discourse and fit selected examples of analogous Apuleian strategies into the broader cultural framework. Subsequent chapters focus closely on the complete Apuleian corpus under the general headings of Apuleius in the roles of orator, philosopher and novelist. Two of Apuleius' philosophical works and his novel the Golden Ass provide an unparalleled opportunity to analyze the methods of translation and adaptation employed by the major Latin writer of the second half of the second century.
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1 online resource (x, 276 pages) :
Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-263) and indexes. :
9789004330320 :
0169-8958 ; :
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The world of Ion of Chios /
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Sixteen international contributors investigate the life, works and reception of Ion of Chios (490/80-420s BC), the prolific Greek writer famed in antiquity for his polyeideia. His extraordinary range of writings in prose and poetry across multiple genres include tragedy, elegy, history, biography, mythography and philosophy. Ion is important to any study of Classical Greece because of the literary innovations which he pioneered. He is significant to the history of Athens and Chios as a contemporary of and commentator on Aeschylus, Cimon, Sophocles, Pericles, Themistocles and Socrates. This book is the first to examine how this fascinating but neglected man interacted with his peers and conceptualized himself and his world during one of the most exciting periods of ancient history.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. :
9789047421184 :
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Portraits of Medea in Portugal during the 20th and 21st Centuries
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The theme of Medea in Portuguese literature has mainly given rise to the writing of new plays on the subject. The central episode in the Portuguese rewritings in the last two centuries is the one that takes place in Corinth, id est, the break between Medea and Jason, on the one hand, and Medea's killing of their children in retaliation, on the other. Besides the complex play of feelings that provides this episode with very real human emotions, gender was a key issue in determining the interest that this story elicited in a society in search of social renovation, after profound political transformations - during the transition between dictatorship and democracy which happened in 1974 - that generated instability and established a requirement to find alternative rules of social intercourse in the path towards a new Portugal.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004383395 :
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Rome and the worlds beyond its frontiers /
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This volume offers an expansive approach to interactions between Romans and those beyond the borders of Rome. The range of papers included here is wide, both in terms of subject matter and with respect to approach. That said, a number of important themes bind the essays. Who is an insider, and who the outsider? How were these categories of person, or identity, fashioned and/or recognized in antiquity? How shall we recognize them now? What are the categories, or standards, for measuring or determining inside and outside in the Roman world? And then, of course, what are the repercussions when inside and outside come into contact? What happens when the outside is in, or the inside out?
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1 online resource (xii, 262 pages) :
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. :
9789004326750 :
1572-0500 ; :
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Processes of cultural change and integration in the Roman world /
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Processes of Cultural Change and Integration in the Roman World is a collection of studies on the interaction between Rome and the peoples that became part of its Empire between c. 300 BC and AD 300. The book focuses on the mechanisms by which interaction between Rome and its subjects occurred, e.g. the settlements of colonies by the Romans, army service, economic and cultural interaction. In many cases Rome exploited the economic resources of the conquered territories without allowing the local inhabitants any legal autonomy. However, they usually maintained a great deal of cultural freedom of expression. Those local inhabitants who chose to engage with Rome, its economy and culture, could rise to great heights in the administration of the Empire.
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This volume is the result of a conference held at the University of Nottingham in July 2013, which focused on processes of integration in the Roman world. This meeting was a follow-up to an earlier conference, held at Manchester in 2010, which looked at processes of integration in the Roman Republic (see LCCN 2012007861). Both conferences started from the idea that, despite the amount of recent scholarship on integration in the ancient world and the impact these had on formation of identities, there are still aspects of these issues that are not fully understood. :
1 online resource (x, 314 pages) : illustrations, maps. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004294554 :
2352-8656 ; :
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Une poétique du retardement : Le récit de la coexistence de Saül et de David (1 S 16-31) /
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Ce livre examine la question de savoir comment comprendre le phénomène de la coexistence prolongée de Saül et David en 1 S 16-31. Même après un oracle divin qui lui signifie sa destitution royale, Saül n'abandonne le trône que tardivement. Et après avoir reçu l'onction royale de Yhwh, le sacre de David n'a lieu que bien après. Ainsi les deux oints coexistent pendant longtemps. Cependant, même si leur longue coexistence avait été un fait historique, le narrateur aurait pu la raconter en quelques lignes. Mais au lieu de l'abréger, il choisit de rendre sa durée perceptible dans la sphère narrative, où les deux causalités, divine et humaine, semblent s'enchevêtrer. Cette étude examine le rapport entre les deux causalités, à savoir l'intervention de Dieu et les initiatives de l'homme, et met en évidence l'art poétique du retardement, à savoir l'incidence de la double causalité sur le retardement de la succession royale, dans sa mise en récit.
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1 online resource (340 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9783657796595