Ancient Israel And Ancient Greece
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Ancient Israel and Ancient Greece
Author | : John Pairman Brown |
Publsiher | : Augsburg Fortress Publishing |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105111800483 |
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The Israelites and the Greeks formed "the first free societies, cultivating rain-watered fields around a fortified citadel, recording their words about the human situation in a widely-accessible alphabetic script." With a keen eye for both comparisons and contrasts, John Pairman Brown investigates relationships between ancient Israel and Greece. In this intriguing and engaging work, he addresses historical, religious, linguistic, and cultural connections between these Mediterranean cultures. With erudition and humility, the author illuminates both Israelite and Greek writings and cultures. He brings a vast knowledge of the ancient Mediterranean and its languages to these studies, which will startle and entice the reader back to the ancient texts.
Hebrew is Greek
Author | : Joseph Yahuda |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 728 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : UOM:39015001201873 |
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The Jewish Novel in the Ancient World
Author | : Lawrence M. Wills |
Publsiher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2015-03-11 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781725234246 |
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Lawrence M. Wills here traces the literary evolution of popular Jewish narratives written during the period 200 BCE-100 CE. In many ways, these narratives were similar to Greek and Roman novels of the same era, as well as to popular novels of indigenous peoples within the Roman Empire. Yet, as a group, they demonstrated a variety of novelistic innovations: the inclusion of adventurous episodes, passages of description and of dialogue, concern with psychological motivation, and the introduction of female characters. Wills focuses on five novels: Greek Esther, Greek Daniel, Judith, Tobit, and Joseph and Aseneth. Drawing on a wide range of theoretical works, he delineates the techniques and motifs of the Jewish novel, shows how the genre both initiated and distanced itself from nonfictional prose such as historical and philosophical writing, discusses its relation to Greco-Roman romance, and describes the social conditions governing its emergence and reception. Wills also places the novels in historical context, situating them between the Hebrew Bible, on the one hand, and subsequent developments in Jewish and Christian literature on the other. Wills sees the Jewish novel as a popular form of writing that provided amusement for an expanding audience of Jewish entrepreneurs, merchants, and bureaucrats. In an important sense, he maintains, it was a product of the "novelistic impulse": the impulse to transfer oral stories to a written medium to reach a more literate audience.
The Sibylline Oracles Annotated Edition
Author | : Milton S. Terry |
Publsiher | : Jazzybee Verlag |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9783849621780 |
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This is the extended and annotated edition including * an extensive annotation of almost 10.000 words about the oracles in religion * an interactive table-of-contents * perfect formatting for electronic reading devices THE Sibyls occupy a conspicuous place in the traditions and history of ancient Greece and Rome. Their fame was spread abroad long before the beginning of the Christian era. Heraclitus of Ephesus, five centuries before Christ, compared himself to the Sibyl "who, speaking with inspired mouth, without a smile, without ornament, and without perfume, penetrates through centuries by the power of the gods." The ancient traditions vary in reporting the number and the names of these weird prophetesses, and much of what has been handed down to us is legendary. But whatever opinion one may hold respecting the various legends, there can be little doubt that a collection of Sibylline Oracles was at one time preserved at Rome. There are, moreover, various oracles, purporting to have been written by ancient Sibyls, found in the writings of Pausanias, Plutarch, Livy, and in other Greek and Latin authors. Whether any of these citations formed a portion of the Sibylline books once kept in Rome we cannot now determine; but the Roman capitol was destroyed by fire in the time of Sulla (B. C. 84), and again in the time of Vespasian (A. D. 69), and whatever books were at those dates kept therein doubtless perished in the flames. It is said by some of the ancients that a subsequent collection of oracles was made, but, if so, there is now no certainty that any fragments of them remain.
Reward Punishment and Forgiveness
Author | : Joze Krasovec |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 997 |
Release | : 2014-09-03 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9789004276031 |
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This book deals with central and universal issues of reward, punishment and forgiveness for the first time in a compact and comprehensive way. Until now these themes have received far too little attention in scholarly research both in their own right and in their interrelationship. The scope of this study is to present them in relation to the foundations of our culture. These and related issues are treated primarily within the Hebrew Bible, using the methods of literary analysis. The centrality of these themes in all religions and all cultures has resulted, however, in a comparative investigation, drawing attention to the problem of terminology, the importance of Greek culture for the European tradition, and the fusion of Greek and Jewish-Christian cultures in our modern philosophical and theological systems. This broad perspective shows that the biblical personalist understanding of divine authority and of human righteousness or guilt provides the personalist key to the search for reconciliation in a divided world.
How People Lived in Ancient Greece
Author | : Colin Hynson |
Publsiher | : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2008-07-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1435826213 |
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Describes everyday life among the ancient Greeks, covering family life, marriage, leisure, education, clothing, food and drink, warfare, religion, and funerals.
The Victorians and Ancient Greece
Author | : Richard Jenkyns |
Publsiher | : Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : UCSC:32106005250565 |
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Greek Religion and Culture the Bible and the Ancient Near East
Author | : Jan Bremmer |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 2008-04-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9789047432715 |
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This book greatly enhances our knowledge of the interrelationship of Greek religion & culture and the Ancient Near East by offering important analyses of Greek myths, divinities and terms like ‘magic’ and 'paradise', but also of the Greek contribution to the Christian notion of atonement.