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1 online resource (lvi, 701 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Numen book series. Studies in the history of religions,
0169-8834 ;
v. 127
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Studies in the history of religions ; 127.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Greek and Roman religion. Calydonian boar / Martin West. Lesbian Sappho revisited / André Lardinois. Significance (or insignificance) of blackness in mythological names / Richard Buxton. Creativity of disaster / Sarah Iles Johnston. Untimely death for the young girl : etiological foundations and initiation practices in classical Athens / Claude Calame. So-called envy of the gods : revisiting a dogma of ancient Greek religion / Lautario Roig Lanzilotta. Earthquakes and the gods : reflections on Graeco-Roman responses to catastrophic events / Fritz Graf. Oracles and Greek mentalities : the mantic confirmation of mantic revelations / Pierre Bonnechere. Pharaian kledomancy / Kenneth Lapatin. A Socratic leaf charm for headache (Charmides 155b-157c), Orphic gold leaves, and the ancient Greek tradition of leaf amulets / Christopher A. Faraone. Callimachus' sacrifice to Apollo (fragment 1.21-24) / Ruurd R. Nauta. Women's affairs? : on a group of Attic votive reliefs with unusual decoration / Anja Klöckner. New problems in Athenian religion : the 'sacred law' from Aixone / Robert Parker. Contracting caterers on Keos / Peter van Minnen. Mnasistratos, the 'hierophant' at Andania (IG 5.1.1390 and Syll.³ 735) / Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge. Pictures from an execution / Nicholas Horsfall. Magian lessons in natural history : unique animals in Graeco-Roman natural magic / Richard Gordon. Pliny : the piety of a persecutor / Walter Ameling. Religio versus religion / Giovanni Casadio -- Judaism and early Christianity. Scribal practices in the Aramaic literary texts from Qumran / Florentino García Martínez. Greatest translation of all time : the cultural importance of the Septuagint / Jack Miles. Reception of Daniel 3 and 6 and the Maccabean martyrdoms in Hebrews 11:33-38 / Jan Willem van Henten. Without God : some notes on a Greek expression / Pieter W. van der Horst. Is early Christianity a religion or a philosophy? : reflections on the importance of 'knowledge' and 'truth' in the letters of Paul and Peter / George H. van Kooten. Rationales for the adoption of Christianity / Ken Dowden. Rewriting and textual fluidity in antiquity : exploring the socio-cultural and psychological context of earliest Christian literacy / István Czachesz. Thomas in Edessa? : another look at the original setting of the Gospel of Thomas / Pierluigi Piovanelli. Orphics and Gnostics / Einar Thomassen. Recognizing demons / Jan den Boeft. Alternative uses of garments in the Graeco-Roman world / Ton Hilhorst. Athens or Jerusalem? : from eschatological hopes to cultural memory / Guy G. Stroumsa. |
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History of religion and modernity. Gospel of Kauṇḍinya : the descent of God in Gujarat and the practice of imitating God / Hans Bakker. From alien to familiar : Christ in language and law of medieval Frisia / Rolf H. Bremmer Jr. Platonic frenzies in Marsilio Ficino / Wouter J. Hanegraaff. Living well and living on : martyrdom and the Imago vitae in the early modern age / Christoph Auffarth. Religious knowledge and the origins of modernity / Lynn Hunt, Margaret Jacob, and Wijnand Mijnhardt. Si vis me flere-- : on preachers, passions and pathos in eighteenth-century Europe / Herman Roodenburg. On Monte Verità : myth and modernity in the Lebensreform movement / Yme Kuiper. For the sake of the community : two scripts of martyrdom operations among Muslims / Hans G. Kippenberg. Rewriting the book of nature : Kabbalah and the metaphors of contemporary life-sciences / Kocku von Stuckrad. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Bremmer, Jan N. |
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Bremmer, Jan N. |
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Myth.
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Myth. |
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Mythology.
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Mythology. |
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Christianity -- Origin.
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Christianity -- Origin. |
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Christianity and other religions -- Judaism.
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Christianity and other religions. |
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Judaism. |
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Judaism -- Relations -- Christianity.
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Relations. |
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Christianity. |
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Religion -- History.
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Religion. |
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History. |
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Civilization, Modern.
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Civilization, Modern. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Festschriften.
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Festschriften.
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Bremmer, Jan N.
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Dijkstra, Jitse H. F.
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Kroesen, Justin, 1975-
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Kuiper, Yme.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Myths, martyrs, and modernity. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010 9789004180895 (DLC) 2009045588 (OCoLC)461632098 |
| ISBN |
9789004193659 (electronic book) |
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9004193650 (electronic book) |
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9789004180895 |
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9004180893 |
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