Myths, martyrs, and modernity : studies in the history of religions in honour of Jan N. Bremmer

Weitere Verfasser: Bremmer, Jan N.
Dijkstra, Jitse H. F.
Kroesen, J. E. A. 1975-
Kuiper, Y.
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
Umfang/Format: lvi, 701 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Schriftenreihe: Studies in the history of religions ; 127.
Schlagworte:
Bremmer, Jan Nicolaas > Festschriften A-G
Christianity and other religions > Judaism.
Christianity > Origin.
Civilization, Modern.
Judaism > Relations > Christianity.
Myth.
Mythology.
Religion > History.
Inhalte/Bestandteile: 30 Datensätze
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Greek and Roman religion.
  • The Calydonian boar /
  • Martin West.
  • Lesbian Sappho revisited /
  • Andre Lardinois.
  • The significance (or insignificance) of blackness in mythological names /
  • Richard Buxton.
  • The creativity of disaster /
  • Sarah Iles Johnston.
  • Untimely death for the young girl : etiological foundations and initiation practices in classical Athens /
  • Claude Calame.
  • The so-called envy of the gods : revisiting a dogma of ancient Greek religion /
  • Lautario Roig Lanzilotta.
  • Earthquakes and the gods : reflections on Graeco-Roman responses to catastrophic events /
  • Fritz Graf.
  • Oracles and Greek mentalities : the mantic confirmation of mantic revelations /
  • Pierre Bonnechere.
  • Pharaian kledomancy /
  • Kenneth Lapatin.
  • A Socratic leaf charm for headache (Charmides 155b-157c), Orphic gold leaves, and the ancient Greek tradition of leaf amulets /
  • Christopher A. Faraone.
  • Callimachus' sacrifice to Apollo (fragment 1.21-24) /
  • Ruurd R. Nauta.
  • Women's affairs? : on a group of Attic votive reliefs with unusual decoration /
  • Anja Klockner.
  • New problems in Athenian religion : the 'sacred law' from Aixone /
  • Robert Parker.
  • Contracting caterers on Keos /
  • Peter van Minnen.
  • Mnasistratos, the 'hierophant' at Andania (IG 5.1.1390 and Syll.p3s 735) /
  • Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge.
  • Pictures from an execution /
  • Nicholas Horsfall.
  • Magian lessons in natural history : unique animals in Graeco-Roman natural magic /
  • Richard Gordon.
  • Pliny : the piety of a persecutor /
  • Walter Ameling.
  • Religio versus religion /
  • Giovanni Casadio
  • Judaism and early Christianity.
  • Scribal practices in the Aramaic literary texts from Qumran /
  • Florentino Garcia Martinez.
  • The greatest translation of all time : the cultural importance of the Septuagint /
  • Jack Miles.
  • The reception of Daniel 3 and 6 and the Maccabean martyrdoms in Hebrews 11:33-38 /
  • Jan Willem van Henten.
  • Without God : some notes on a Greek expression /
  • Pieter W. van der Horst.
  • Is early Christianity a religion or a philosophy? : reflections on the importance of 'knowledge' and 'truth' in the letters of Paul and Peter /
  • George H. van Kooten.
  • Rationales for the adoption of Christianity /
  • Ken Dowden.
  • Rewriting and textual fluidity in antiquity : exploring the socio-cultural and psychological context of earliest Christian literacy /
  • Istvan Czachesz.
  • Thomas in Edessa? : another look at the original setting of the Gospel of Thomas /
  • Pierluigi Piovanelli.
  • Orphics and Gnostics /
  • Einar Thomassen.
  • Recognizing demons /
  • Jan den Boeft.
  • Alternative uses of garments in the Graeco-Roman world /
  • Ton Hilhorst.
  • Athens or Jerusalem? : from eschatological hopes to cultural memory /
  • Guy G. Stroumsa
  • History of religion and modernity.
  • The gospel of Kaundinya : the descent of God in Gujarat and the practice of imitating God /
  • Hans Bakker.
  • From alien to familiar : Christ in language and law of medieval Frisia /
  • Rolf H. Bremmer Jr.
  • The Platonic frenzies in Marsilio Ficino /
  • Wouter J. Hanegraaff.
  • Living well and living on : martyrdom and the Imago vitae in the early modern age /
  • Christoph Auffarth.
  • Religious knowledge and the origins of modernity /
  • Lynn Hunt, Margaret Jacob, and Wijnand Mijnhardt.
  • Si vis me flere
  • : on preachers, passions and pathos in eighteenth-century Europe /
  • Herman Roodenburg.
  • On Monte Verita : myth and modernity in the Lebensreform movement /
  • Yme Kuiper.
  • For the sake of the community : two scripts of martyrdom operations among Muslims /
  • Hans G. Kippenberg.
  • Rewriting the book of nature : Kabbalah and the metaphors of contemporary life-sciences /
  • Kocku von Stuckrad.

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