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A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more
at www.luminosoa.org. During the height of Muslim power in Mughal
South Asia, Hindu and Muslim scholars worked collaboratively to
translate a large body of Hindu Sanskrit texts into the Persian
language. Translating Wisdom reconstructs the intellectual
processes and exchanges that underlay these translations. Using as
a case study the 1597 Persian rendition of the Yoga-Vasistha-an
influential Sanskrit philosophical tale whose popularity stretched
across the subcontinent-Shankar Nair illustrates how these early
modern Muslim and Hindu scholars drew upon their respective
religious, philosophical, and literary traditions to forge a common
vocabulary through which to understand one another. These scholars
thus achieved, Nair argues, a nuanced cultural exchange and
interreligious and cross-philosophical dialogue significant not
only to South Asia's past but also its present.
After more than a century of debate about the significance of
imperial cults for the interpretation of Revelation, this is the
first study to examine both the archaeological evidence and the
Biblical text in depth. Friesen argues that a detailed analysis of
imperial cults as they were practiced in the first century CE in
the region where John was active allows us to understand John's
criticism of his society's dominant values. He demonstrates the
importance of imperial cults for society at the time when
Revelation was written, and shows the ways in which John refuted
imperial cosmology through his use of vision, myth, and
eschatological expectation.
This is the first survey of religious beliefs in the British Isles
from the Old Stone Age to the coming of Christianity, one of the
least familiar periods in Britaina s history. Ronald Hutton draws
upon a wealth of new data, much of it archaeological, that has
transformed interpretation over the past decade. Giving more or
less equal weight to all periods, from the Neolithic to the Middle
Ages, he examines a fascinating range of evidence for Celtic and
Romano--British paganism, from burial sites, cairns, megaliths and
causeways, to carvings, figurines, jewellery, weapons, votive
objects, literary texts and folklore.
The description for this book, Introduction to Islamic Theology and
Law, will be forthcoming.
This is a substantially expanded and completely revised edition of a book first published by Fortress Press in 1988 as Maenads, Matyrs, Matrons, Monastics. The book collects translations of primary texts relevant to women's religion (pagan, Jewish, and Christian) in Western antiquity, from the fourth century BCE to the fifth century CE. This volume provides a unique and invaluable resource for scholars of classical antiquity, early Christianity and Judaism, and women's religion more generally.
The Vikings Bok, commonly known as the Poetic Edda, is the
spiritual foundation for the Heathen revival today. It is the
indigenous, historical remains of a once widespread Teutonic
spirituality that has been too long absent from the Western world.
This newly revised edition is based on the rare and highly
acclaimed Olive Bray translation. Together with a New Glossary of
modern Heathen terms and a concise introduction, this single source
book is a practical "must have" for those interested in following
the Northern Way
A compelling account of Christianity's Jewish beginnings, from one
of the world's leading scholars of ancient religion How did a group
of charismatic, apocalyptic Jewish missionaries, working to prepare
their world for the impending realization of God's promises to
Israel, end up inaugurating a movement that would grow into the
gentile church? Committed to Jesus's prophecy-"The Kingdom of God
is at hand!"-they were, in their own eyes, history's last
generation. But in history's eyes, they became the first
Christians. In this electrifying social and intellectual history,
Paula Fredriksen answers this question by reconstructing the life
of the earliest Jerusalem community. As her account arcs from this
group's hopeful celebration of Passover with Jesus, through their
bitter controversies that fragmented the movement's midcentury
missions, to the city's fiery end in the Roman destruction of
Jerusalem, she brings this vibrant apostolic community to life.
Fredriksen offers a vivid portrait both of this temple-centered
messianic movement and of the bedrock convictions that animated and
sustained it.
The Greeks are on trial. They have been for generations, if not millennia, fromRome in the first century, to Romanticism in the nineteenth. We debate the place of the Greeks in the university curriculum, in New World culture--we even debate the place of the Greeks in the European Union. This book notices the lingering and half-hidden presence of the Greeks in some strange places--everywhere from the US Supreme Court to the Modern Olympic Games--and in so doing makes an important new contribution to a very old debate.
Distinguished experts from a range of disciplines with a common interest in late antiquity probe the apparent paradox of pagan monotheism, and reach a better understanding of the historical roots of Christianity.
In this unique reference work, Roman religion is finally accorded its due and set in its full context. Dictionary of Roman Religion contains more than 1,400 entries. Among the topics covered are deities and spirits, festivals, sacrifices, temples, altars, cult objects, burial rites, writers on religion, and historical religious events. Different religions within the Roman world, such as Mithraism, Druidism, Judaism, and Christianity, are also discussed. Illustrated, cross-referenced, and featuring a bibliography and glossary, this dictionary is both comprehensive and essential for students and researchers. The essays and suggestions for further reading also make this appealing to all who are interested in ancient religions, myths, and legends.
This revised translation of Fritz Graf's highly acclaimed
introduction to Greek mythology offers a chronological account of
the principal Greek myths that appear in the surviving literary and
artistic sources and concurrently documents the history of
interpretation of Greek mythology from the 17th century to the
present. First surveying the various definitions of myth that have
been advanced, Graf proceeds to examine topics such as the
relationship between Greek myths and epic poetry, the connection
between particular myths and shrines or holy festivals, the use of
myth in Greek song and tragedy, and the uses and interpretations of
myth by philosophers and allegorists.
The study of ancient Greek religion has been excitingly renewed in the last thirty years. Key areas are: religion and politics; archaeological finds; myth and ritual; gender; problems raised by the very notion of 'religion'. This volume contains challenging papers (updated especially for this collection) by some of the most innovative participants in this renewal.
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