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Studies in Hellenistic religions / Luther H. Martin ; selected and edited with an introduction by Panayotis Pachis.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Eugene, Oregon : Cascade Books, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (xv, 390 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781498283090
  • 1498283098
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 292.13 23
LOC classification:
  • BL783 .M335 2018eb
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Part 1: The Graeco-Roman Religious World -- Part 2: Oracular Dreaming -- Part 3: Graeco-Roman Mysteries -- Part 4: Hellenistic Judaism and Christianity -- Part 5: Gnosticism.
Introduction: General Characteristics of the Hellenistic Era / Panayotis Pachis -- Greek and Roman Philosophy and Religion -- The Very Idea of Globalization: The Case of Hellenistic Empire -- Fate, Futurity, and Historical Consciousness in Western Antiquity -- Why Cecropian Minerva? Hellenistic Religious Syncretism as System -- Kingship and the Consolidation of Religiopolitical Power during the Hellenistic Period -- Biology, Sociology, and the Study of Religion: Two Lectures -- Religion and Dream Theory in Late Antiquity -- Prayer in Graeco-Roman Religions -- Petitionary Prayer in the Graeco-Roman World: Comparison, Consequences, Congnition, and a few Conclusions -- Imagistic Traditions in the Graeco-Roman World -- Those Elusive Eleusinian Mystery Shows -- Greek Goddesses and Grain: The Sicilian Connection -- History, Cognitive Science, and the Problematic Study of Folk Religions: The Case of the Eleusinian Mysteries of Demeter -- Mithras, Milites and Bovine Legs: A Response to Aleš Chalupa and Thamáš Glomb, "The Third Symbol of the Miles Grade on the Floor Mosaic of the Felicissimus Mithraeum in Ostia: A New Interpretation" -- "Star Talk": Native Competence; Initiatory Comprehension -- When Size Matters: Social Formations in the Graeco-Roman World -- Josephus's use of Heimarmenē in the Jewish Antiquities 8.171-173 -- Gods or Ambassadors of God? Barnabas and Paul in Lystra -- The Hellenisation of Judaeo-Christian Faith or the Christianisation of Hellenic Thought? -- The Encyclopedia Hellenistica and Christian Origins -- Past Minds: Evolution, Cognition, and Biblical Studies -- Genealogy and Sociology in the Apocalypse of Adam -- Technologies of the Self and Self-Knowledge in the Syrian Thomas Tradition -- Self and Power in the Thought of Plotinus.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)1804000

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1: The Graeco-Roman Religious World -- Part 2: Oracular Dreaming -- Part 3: Graeco-Roman Mysteries -- Part 4: Hellenistic Judaism and Christianity -- Part 5: Gnosticism.

Introduction: General Characteristics of the Hellenistic Era / Panayotis Pachis -- Greek and Roman Philosophy and Religion -- The Very Idea of Globalization: The Case of Hellenistic Empire -- Fate, Futurity, and Historical Consciousness in Western Antiquity -- Why Cecropian Minerva? Hellenistic Religious Syncretism as System -- Kingship and the Consolidation of Religiopolitical Power during the Hellenistic Period -- Biology, Sociology, and the Study of Religion: Two Lectures -- Religion and Dream Theory in Late Antiquity -- Prayer in Graeco-Roman Religions -- Petitionary Prayer in the Graeco-Roman World: Comparison, Consequences, Congnition, and a few Conclusions -- Imagistic Traditions in the Graeco-Roman World -- Those Elusive Eleusinian Mystery Shows -- Greek Goddesses and Grain: The Sicilian Connection -- History, Cognitive Science, and the Problematic Study of Folk Religions: The Case of the Eleusinian Mysteries of Demeter -- Mithras, Milites and Bovine Legs: A Response to Aleš Chalupa and Thamáš Glomb, "The Third Symbol of the Miles Grade on the Floor Mosaic of the Felicissimus Mithraeum in Ostia: A New Interpretation" -- "Star Talk": Native Competence; Initiatory Comprehension -- When Size Matters: Social Formations in the Graeco-Roman World -- Josephus's use of Heimarmenē in the Jewish Antiquities 8.171-173 -- Gods or Ambassadors of God? Barnabas and Paul in Lystra -- The Hellenisation of Judaeo-Christian Faith or the Christianisation of Hellenic Thought? -- The Encyclopedia Hellenistica and Christian Origins -- Past Minds: Evolution, Cognition, and Biblical Studies -- Genealogy and Sociology in the Apocalypse of Adam -- Technologies of the Self and Self-Knowledge in the Syrian Thomas Tradition -- Self and Power in the Thought of Plotinus.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 16, 2018).