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Henning Ohst deposited Zeitschriftenschau Fachwissenschaft (Mnemosyne 75.6, 2022 u. Hermes 150.4, 2022), Forum Classicum 66, 2023, S. 62–68 in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoMore detailed Discussions on J. van Waarden: Leafing through Pliny with Sidonius. Sidon. Ep. 1.1, Plin. Ep. 1.1, 1.2, and 1.5, and Satire, Mnemosyne 75/6, 2022, 1021–1043 (62–64) and G. Wöhrle: Fragmente im
Überfluss. Zur Problematik eines philologischen Begriffs, Hermes 150/4, 2022, 385-404 (64–67). -
Mark Beumer deposited Hygieia. Identity, Cult and Reception in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoThis article examines the Greek goddess Hygieia by looking at her identity, cult status in the ancient world and subsequent scholarly reception. Should she be viewed as a goddess or a personification? By studying Hygieia primarily as a concept of health within ancient medicine, as well as a personification and a goddess, it will be argued that…[Read more]
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Mark Beumer deposited Hygieia. Identity, Cult and Reception in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoThis article examines the Greek goddess Hygieia by looking at her identity, cult status in the ancient world and subsequent scholarly reception. Should she be viewed as a goddess or a personification? By studying Hygieia primarily as a concept of health within ancient medicine, as well as a personification and a goddess, it will be argued that…[Read more]
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Mark Beumer deposited A Woman’s Touch. Hygieia, Health and Incubation in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoIn this paper, I argue that Hygieia has to be viewed as a full goddess in Greek religion and medicine, with a special focus on her position within the Asklepios cult. I will examine her identity, to which scholars attribute several labels like goddess, abstraction and personification. I further argue that Hygieia’s role in performing incubation r…[Read more]
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Mark Beumer deposited A Woman’s Touch. Hygieia, Health and Incubation in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoIn this paper, I argue that Hygieia has to be viewed as a full goddess in Greek religion and medicine, with a special focus on her position within the Asklepios cult. I will examine her identity, to which scholars attribute several labels like goddess, abstraction and personification. I further argue that Hygieia’s role in performing incubation r…[Read more]
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Mark Beumer deposited The Foundation of Anthropology to Ritual Studies in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoThe present paper aims to investigate the role of anthropology in the development of Ritual Studies as an inter-disciplinary platform, with a focus on ritual dynamics by using a historiographic description, focusing on thetransition of Greco-Roman to Christian culture. This study attempts to shed light not only on the contributionof anthropology…[Read more]
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Mark Beumer deposited The Foundation of Anthropology to Ritual Studies in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoThe present paper aims to investigate the role of anthropology in the development of Ritual Studies as an inter-disciplinary platform, with a focus on ritual dynamics by using a historiographic description, focusing on thetransition of Greco-Roman to Christian culture. This study attempts to shed light not only on the contributionof anthropology…[Read more]
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Henning Ohst deposited A Companion to Isidore of Seville, hg. v. Andrew Fear u. Jamie Wood (2020), Plekos 24, 2022, S. 65–77 in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoThe Companion assembles a total of twenty chapters in English throughout, which – as explained in more detail in the Introduction by the two editors – are thematically divided into three sections (“parts”): “Isidore’s Contexts” (chapters 1-4, including the “Introduction”), “Themes in Isidore’s Works” (chapters 5-13), and “Transmission andReception…[Read more]
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Gregor M. Schwarb deposited Debating the Deuteronomic Centralisation Formula in 11th Century Palestine in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoAbū l-Ḥasan al-Ṣūrī’s Treatise on the qibla, written in the 1030s C.E., and its Qaraite rebuttal, most likely written over the course of the following decade, preserve the most substantial and extensive surviving account of the centuries-old debate between Jews and Samaritans about the chosen place, the permanent location of the sanctuary and the…[Read more]
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Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer / Sobre el «Discurso a Diogneto». La revelación mística de un cristianismo alejandrino desnudo de fabulaciones y leyendas. in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months ago(Sobre el «Discurso a Diogneto» y la literatura cristiana primitiva).
En este trabajo, se lleva a cabo un concienzudo estudio del «Discurso a Diogneto» o «Epistola a Diogneto» (como queramos llamar a este texto). Y en él, su autor destaca como rasgos fundamentales:
—El carácter muy temprano de este texto, que intentó armonizar la Iglesia co…[Read more] -
Elton Barker deposited Journeying through Space and Time with Pausanias’s Description of Greece in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoSometime in the second century CE, Pausanias of Magnesia (modern-day Turkey) wrote the Description of Greece. Ostensibly a tour of the places to see on the Greek mainland, the Description also provides historical accounts related to the topography through which Pausanias moves. Little attention has been given to how these building blocks of…[Read more]
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Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer / Preámbulo del libro «Sacrificio y drama del Rey Sagrado». Una visión diferente de los orígenes cristianos. in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoPreámbulo del libro SACRIFRICIO Y DRAMA DEL REY SAGRADO, de Eliseo Ferrer. (Se añade índice y bibliografía).
Vaya por delante que ésta no es una obra de consenso académico; y tampoco una obra guiada por la fe religiosa, ni por los presupuestos decimonónicos del ateísmo antirreligioso y anticristiano. Decía el mitólogo Joseph Campbell que la hu…[Read more] -
Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer / Isvara Krishna: «El Cristo desconocido del hinduismo». in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoToda la tesis de R. Panikkar estuvo dirigida, dada su tradición intelectual multicultural y multirreligiosa, a «un encuentro sincero» entre el cristianismo y el hinduismo; y quizá por eso subtituló este libro («El Cristo desconocido del hinduismo») con el ambicioso reclamo: «Para una cristofanía ecuménica». No obstante, y para no engañar a…[Read more]
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Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer / Radical criticism of fraudulent and sterile research on the origins of Christianity. in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoDodecalogue of errors and nonsense / I believe that the secular influence of the theology and dogmatics of the Church (inherited, to a large extent, by the Lutheran reformers), as well as the ideology generated over eighteen centuries on the substratum of the New Testament, have led and They continue to lead in the XXI century to great errors of…[Read more]
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Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer / Ateísmo y materialismo metodológico. Contra las críticas del catolicismo dogmático universitario. in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoComo ya saben muchos de mis amigos y seguidores de Internet, suelo organizar casi todos los meses un foro-debate en Academia.edu sobre asuntos que normalmente giran en torno a la antropología social y cultural, pero también relativos a asuntos destacados de la historia antigua y de la crítica textual, campos en los que normalmente se de…[Read more]
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Ermanno Malaspina deposited For a Pre-history and Post-history of the Corpus Leidense With a List of the Manuscripts of De natura deorum in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThe present article examines the Corpus Leidense, the group of eight Ciceronian treatises among which the De natura deorum was also transmitted, focusing on its archetype. The second and longer section contains the first complete list of the 174 identified manuscripts of De natura deorum, with 57 new items added to the 117 already listed by Pease…[Read more]
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Elton Barker deposited BMCR review of Greta Hawes, Pausanias in the world of Greek myth. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. xii, 237. ISBN 9780198832553 in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoRecent scholarship has done much to challenge the long-held antipathy towards Pausanias, even if some of the best studies appear “enamored not so much of Pausanias himself as they are of the idea of Pausanias”. As one of the leading new Pausaniacs, Greta Hawes has been at the vanguard of efforts to get the measure of this storied landscape. Her…[Read more]
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Elton Barker deposited Die Another Day: Sarpedon, Aristodemos, and Homeric Intertextuality in Herodotus in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThe subject of this chapter is a single contested word in Herodotus’ Histories. In it I explore its semantic range and use it to think about broader questions of Herodotus’ interplay with Homer. Where many of the Homeric touches in Herodotus can be put down to, and more productively used, as examples of traditional referentiality or, at least, n…[Read more]
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Christian Frevel deposited Gotteshäuser en miniature? Architekturbezug, Funktion und Medialität der sogenannten Tempelmodelle der südlichen Levante in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 1 month agoproofs, to be published in a volume 2023
Gotteshäuser en miniature? Architekturbezug, Funktion und Medialität der sogenannten Tempelmodelle der südlichen Levante, in: Jens Kamlah/Markus Witte (Hg.), Sacred Architecture in Ancient Palestine from the Bronze Age to Medieval Times (ADPV 49), Wiesbaden 2023, 153-234.
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Joey McCollum deposited Bayesian Textual Criticism: Evolutionary Genetics and the Transmission of New Testament Texts in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 1 month ago[Note: these are the slides for the second talk described in the abstract.]
Phylogenetics is an approach developed in evolutionary biology to reconstruct organisms’ relationships of descent based on observations of their trait similarities and differences. It finds a close analogue in textual criticism, where manuscripts correspond to o…[Read more]
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