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The Dragon the Mountain and the Nations
Author | : Robert D. Miller II |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Bible |
ISBN | : 1575064790 |
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Examines myths concerning dragons and dragon-slaying throughout proto-Indo-European cultures, ancient Near Eastern and Mesopotamian traditions, Indian mythology, and the Bible.
Geography Religion Gods and Saints in the Eastern Mediterranean
Author | : Erica Ferg |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2020-01-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780429594496 |
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Geography, Religion, Gods, and Saints in the Eastern Mediterranean explores the influence of geography on religion and highlights a largely unknown story of religious history in the Eastern Mediterranean. In the Levant, agricultural communities of Jews, Christians, and Muslims jointly venerated and largely shared three important saints or holy figures: Jewish Elijah, Christian St. George, and Muslim al-Khiḍr. These figures share ‘peculiar’ characteristics, such as associations with rain, greenness, fertility, and storms. Only in the Eastern Mediterranean are Elijah, St. George, and al-Khiḍr shared between religious communities, or characterized by these same agricultural attributes – attributes that also were shared by regional religious figures from earlier time periods, such as the ancient Near Eastern Storm-god Baal-Hadad, and Levantine Zeus. This book tells the story of how that came to be, and suggests that the figures share specific characteristics, over a very long period of time, because these motifs were shaped by the geography of the region. Ultimately, this book suggests that regional geography has influenced regional religion; that Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are not, historically or textually speaking, separate religious traditions (even if Jews, Christians, and Muslims are members of distinct religious communities); and that shared religious practices between members of these and other local religious communities are not unusual. Instead, shared practices arose out of a common geographical environment and an interconnected religious heritage, and are a natural historical feature of religion in the Eastern Mediterranean. This volume will be of interest to students of ancient Near Eastern religions, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, sainthood, agricultural communities in the ancient Near East, Middle Eastern religious and cultural history, and the relationships between geography and religion.
Baal St George and Khidr
Author | : Robert D. Miller II |
Publsiher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 105 |
Release | : 2020-05-11 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781646020232 |
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In Western tradition, St. George is known as the dragon slayer. In the Middle East, he is called Khidr (“Green One”), and in addition to being a dragon slayer, he is also somehow the prophet Elijah. In this book, Robert D. Miller II untangles these complicated connections and reveals how, especially in his Middle Eastern guise, St. George is a reincarnation of the Canaanite storm god Baal, another “Green One” who in Ugaritic texts slays dragons. Combining art history, theology, and archeology, this multidisciplinary study demystifies the identity of St. George in his various incarnations, laying bare the processes by which these identifications merged and diverged. Miller traces the origins of this figure in Arabic and Latin texts and explores the possibility that Middle Eastern shrines to St. George lie on top of ancient shrines of the Canaanite storm god Baal. Miller examines these holy places, particularly in modern Israel and around Mount Hermon on the Syrian-Lebanese-Israeli border, and makes the convincing case that direct continuity exists from the Baal of antiquity to the St. George/Khidr of Christian lore. Convincingly argued and thoroughly researched, this study makes a unique contribution to such diverse areas as ancient Near Eastern studies, Roman history and religion, Christian hagiography and iconography, Quranic studies, and Arab folk religion.
Reading the Bible with Horror
Author | : Brandon R. Grafius |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 163 |
Release | : 2019-10-25 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781978701694 |
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In Reading the Bible with Horror, Brandon R. Grafius takes the reader on a whirlwind tour through the dark corners of the Hebrew Bible. Along the way, he stops to place the monstrous Leviathan in conversation with contemporary monster theory, uses Derrida to help explore the ghosts that haunt the biblical landscape, and reads the House of David as a haunted house. Conversations arise between unexpected sources, such as the Pentateuch legal texts dealing with female sexuality and Carrie. Throughout the book, Grafius asks how the Hebrew Bible can be both sacred text and tome of fright, and he explores the numerous ways in which the worlds of religion and horror share uncomfortable spaces.
God s Conflict with the Dragon and the Sea
Author | : John Day |
Publsiher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1985-01-24 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0521256003 |
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Dr Day examines God's conflict with a dragon and the sea in the Old Testament.
Revelation
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Canongate Books |
Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 1999-01-01 |
Genre | : Bibles |
ISBN | : 9780857861016 |
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The final book of the Bible, Revelation prophesies the ultimate judgement of mankind in a series of allegorical visions, grisly images and numerological predictions. According to these, empires will fall, the "Beast" will be destroyed and Christ will rule a new Jerusalem. With an introduction by Will Self.
How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom Volume 6
Author | : Dojyomaru |
Publsiher | : J-Novel Club |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2018-06-01 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781718309104 |
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A storm is approaching the Star Dragon Mountain Range. Souma ends up confronting a calamity that transcends human knowledge?!
Myths and Legends of All Nations
Author | : Logan Marshall |
Publsiher | : Рипол Классик |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2018-04-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9785873880300 |
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In this application you will find fantastic stories from diferent mythologies through the ages and civilizations