TY  - BOOK
AU  - Calaway,Jared
AU  - Calaway,Jared C.
AU  - French,Todd
AU  - Lillie,Celene
AU  - McGuckin,John A.
AU  - Mcguckin,John A.
AU  - Pettis,Jeff
AU  - Pettis,Jeffrey B.
AU  - Trostyanskiy,Sergey
TI  - Seeing the God: Ways of Envisioning the Divine in Ancient Mediterranean Religion 
T2  - Perspectives on Philosophy and Religious Thought
SN  - 9781611432510
U1  - 200 
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Piscataway, NJ : 
PB  - Gorgias Press, 
KW  - RELIGION / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; TABLE OF CONTENTS --; PREFACE --; INTRODUCTION --; SEEING THE GOD IN THE GRECO-ROMAN WORLD --; VISIONS AND VIOLENCE: SEEING GOD IN THE NAG HAMMADI CODICES1 --; SEEING THE DIVINE IN PLATONISM; PLATO AND PLOTINUS --; SEEING THE GOD AND EARLY CHRISTIAN LITERATURE --; TO SEE GOD AND LIVE IN LATE ANTIQUE JUDAISM --; SEEING THE GOD IN THE SYRIAC TRADITION --; SEEING DIVINE THINGS IN BYZANTINE CHRISTIANITY; restricted access
N2  - "When people prayed, they expected their gods to come," wrote Robin Lane Fox, providing the impetus for this volume of collected essays exploring the concept of how the ancients “envisioned” the deities within various ancient religious traditions. The perspectives of Judaism, Gnosticism, Syriac Christianity, Byzantium, and Classical Greco-Roman religion and philosophy are considered. Specific emphasis is given to phenomena such as dreams, visions, and initiatory rites mediating the divine encounter
UR  - https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463234881
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781463234881
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781463234881/original
ER  -