Author : Ehud Ben Zvi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 30,93 MB
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3110349663
Water is a vital resource and is widely acknowledged as such. Thus it often serves as an ideological and linguistic symbol that stands for and evokes concepts central within a community. This volume explores ‘thinking of water’ and concepts expressed through references to water within the symbolic system of the late Persian/early Hellenistic period and as it does so it sheds light on the social mindscape of the early Second Temple community.
Author : Kivatsi Jonathan Kavusa
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 42,38 MB
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567687287
Kivatsi Jonathan Kavusa addresses a gap in the field of ecological readings of the Old Testament, exploring the theme of water in the Wisdom books, including the often-ignored deuterocanonical works. Kavusa focuses on both the negative and positive potential of water, drawing in particular on four of the Earth Bible principles: intrinsic worth, interconnectedness, voice, and purpose. Kavusa begins with a summary of the extant studies and literature reviews on water and water-related motifs in the Old Testament. He then analyses the books of Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and the Deutero-canonical wisdom, examining the various references to water as life-giving or life-threatening entities, and expanding upon the themes of water management and sustainability, the intrinsic worth of nature and the unpredicatable, chaotic state of water. This volume concludes with several insights for ecological responsibility and valuable wisdom for an eco-theological perspective, both in Kavusa's African context and with a more universal application.
Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 25,65 MB
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1498539858
Ecocritical thinking has sensitized us more than ever before to the tremendous importance of water for human life, as it is richly reflected in the world of literature. The great relevance of water also in the Middle Ages might come as a surprise for many readers, but the evidence assembled here confirms that also medieval poets were keenly aware of the importance of water to sustain all life, to provide understanding of life’s secrets, to mirror love, and to connect the individual with God. In eleven chapters major medieval European authors and their works are discussed here, taking us from the world of Old Norse to Irish and Latin literature, to German, French, English, and Italian romances and other narratives.
Author : Lester L. Grabbe
Publisher : T&T Clark
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 40,49 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN :
Volume two in the four-volume history of the Second Temple period, looking at the period from Alexander's conquest to the eve of the Maccabaean revolt.
Author : Lee I. Levine
Publisher : Jewish Publication Society
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 30,94 MB
Release : 2002-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0827607504
Jerusalem in the Second Temple period experienced dramatic growth as it achieved unprecedented political, religious, and spiritual prominence. Lee Levine traces the development of Jerusalem during this time -- through its urban, demographic, topographical, and archaeological features, its political regimes, public institutions, and its cultural and religious life.
Author : Pinhas Delougaz
Publisher :
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 37,55 MB
Release : 1942
Category : Diyala River Region (Iran and Iraq)
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 13,58 MB
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9004395741
Trends and Turning Points presents sixteen articles, examining the discursive construction of the late antique and Byzantine world, focusing specifically on the utilisation of trends and turning points to make stuff from the past, whether texts, matter, or action, meaningful. Contributions are divided into four complementary strands, Scholarly Constructions, Literary Trends, Constructing Politics, and Turning Points in Religious Landscapes. Each strand cuts across traditional disciplinary boundaries and periodisation, placing historical, archaeological, literary, and architectural concerns in discourse, whilst drawing on examples from the full range of the medieval Roman past. While its individual articles offer numerous important insights, together the volume collectively rethinks fundamental assumptions about how late antique and Byzantine studies has and continues to be discursively constructed. Contributors are: David Barritt, Laura Borghetti, Nikolas Churik, Elif Demirtiken, Alasdair C. Grant, Stephen Humphreys, Mirela Ivanova, Hugh Jeffery, Valeria Flavia Lovato, Francesco Lovino, Kosuke Nakada, Jonas Nilsson, Theresia Raum, Maria Rukavichnikova, and Milan Vukašinović.
Author : Isaac Kalimi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 40,29 MB
Release : 2018-11-29
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 1108471269
Analyses Solomon's birth, rise, and temple-building within scriptural, archaeological and historical contexts.
Author : Albert Gallatin Mackey
Publisher :
Page : 976 pages
File Size : 30,31 MB
Release : 1874
Category : Freemasonry
ISBN :
Author : Albert Gallatin Mackey
Publisher :
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 10,20 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Freemasonry
ISBN :
