Kategoria BISAC: History >> Ancient - General

Vor 1600 Jahren ist der Kirchenvater Johannes Chrysostomos gestorben. Wie kaum ein anderer Christ der Antike pragt er bis heute die Identitat unterschiedlichster kirchlicher Traditionen. Wahrend die Protestanten ihn als Prediger schatzen (daher der Ehrenname Chrysostomos Goldmund ), kennen ihn die Orthodoxen als namengebenden Stammvater ihrer Sonntagsliturgie (Chrysostomosliturgie). Der Band gibt Einblick in die facettenreiche Wirkungsgeschichte dieser Figur.

Der Band widmet sich der Frage nach der Bildlichkeit von Weltbildern. Aus der Sicht verschiedener Disziplinen (Theologie, Kunstgeschichte, Astrophysik, Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Philosophie) wird die Untersuchung von Weltbildern als einem historisch-kulturellen Phanomen im Horizont gegenwartiger Diskussionen uber die Visualitat von Weltwahrnehmung neu aufgenommen.

The Greek papyri and parchments of the Vienna collection have been published over the last one-hundred twenty-five years - from the advent of papyrology to the present. This collection of new editions of the New Testament Greek papyri and parchments includes all of the known and identified manuscripts, as well as four important lectionary texts and an apocryphal gospel (the so-called Fayyum fragment). All of these editions are newly made from examination of the manuscripts themselves. Without detracting in any way from the work of such previous scholars as Wessely and Sanz, these editions...

Critical presentation of the whole evidence concerning Jewish history, institutions, and literature from 175 BC to AD 135; with updated bibliographies.

The handbook illustrates 94 Greek literary papyrus texts from Egypt and Herculaneum and documents the different types of scripts used in copying works of Greek literature, from the earliest surviving bookrolls written in the 4th century BC up to the first century AD. The aim is twofold: (1) to establish their relative (and, wherever possible, absolute) chronological sequence, and (2) to distinguish and characterize their stylistic features. Specimens of different types of scripts ("hands") that appear stylistically related have been grouped together. In their joint introduction, the...

Whether it's the possibility of hearing the voices of ancient peoples or the puzzle solver's taste for the challenges posed by breaking codes, undeciphered scripts have long tantalized the public. Here, Andrew Robinson investigates the most famous examples, beginning with the stories of three great decipherments: Egyptian hieroglyphs, Maya glyphs, and the Minoan Linear B clay tablets.

He then tackles the important scripts that have yet to be cracked. Perhaps the greatest challenge is the Indus script, the onl writing of the four "first" civilizations that cannot be read and a...

From the Iliad to Aristophanes, from the gospel of Matthew to Augustine, Greek and Latin texts are constellated with descriptive images of dreams. Some are formulaic, others intensely vivid. The best ancient minds--Plato, Aristotle, the physician Galen, and others--struggled to understand the meaning of dreams.

With Dreams and Experience in Classical Antiquity the renowned ancient historian William Harris turns his attention to oneiric matters. This cultural history of dreams in antiquity draws on both contemporary post-Freudian science and careful critiques of the ancient...

Although the hominin fossils from the site were...