Routledge Revivals: The Song Celestial or Bhagavad-Gita (1906) (Routledge Revivals)
First published in 1909, this book presents an English translation of chapters 25-42 of the Bhishma Parva from the epic Sanskrit poem Mahabharata — better known as the Bhagavad-Gita, reckoned as one of the "Five Jewels" of Devanagari literature. The plot consists of a dialogue between Prince Arjuna and Krishna, the Supreme Deity, in a war-chariot prior to a great battle. The conversation that takes place unfolds a philosophical system which remains the prevailing Brahmanic belief, blending the d...
The Origin and Persistence of Evil in Galatians (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 2. Reihe)
by Tyler A. Stewart
In this study, Tyler A. Stewart investigates narrative explanations for evil in Galatians set in the context of Second Temple Judaism and early Christianity. Scholarship has typically interpreted Paul's view of evil based on Adam's fall or a mere reflex of Christology. In contrast, the author argues that in Galatians Paul's view of evil is based on the narrative of rebellious angels found in the Book of Watchers. Additionally, he claims that Paul's use of Enochic tradition is consistent with Sec...
From the Reed Sea to Kadesh (Forschungen zum Alten Testament)
by Jaeyoung Jeon
In this book, Jaeyoung Jeon traces the development of the pentateuchal wilderness story in Exodus and Numbers from its pre-monarchic origin to the formation of the final form. He argues that old memories of YHWH from the southern desert area and the move of the Transjordanian settlers to the west were merged with the memory of Egyptian oppression and that they formed together an early tradition of exodus-wilderness in the Northern Kingdom. Although the tradition further developed in Judah after...
Research on the Book of Jeremiah has gained momentum in the past forty years and led to new results. The differences between the MT and the LXX have received more attention than ever. The extent of Deuteronomistic thinking and of redactions marks the debate on the composition of the book. It has become evident that the Book of Jeremiah intensively picks up earlier sources and offers a synthesis of them, comparable to a mosaic. It concentrates on the downfall of Jerusalem, conceives anew the prop...
Modern Hinduism in Text and Context
Modern Hinduism in Text and Context brings together textual and contextual approaches to provide a holistic understanding of modern Hinduism. It examines new sources - including regional Saiva texts, Odissi dance and biographies of Nationalists - and discusses topics such as yoga, dance, visual art and festivals in tandem with questions of spirituality and ritual. The book addresses themes and issues yet to receive in-depth attention in the study of Hinduism. It shows that Hinduism endures no...
Rethinking Religion in India (Routledge South Asian Religion)
This book critically assesses recent debates about the colonial construction of Hinduism. Increasingly scholars have come to realise that the dominant understanding of Indian culture and its traditions is unsatisfactory. According to the classical paradigm, Hindu traditions are conceptualized as features of a religion with distinct beliefs, doctrines, sacred laws and holy texts. Today, however, many academics consider this conception to be a colonial ‘construction’. This book focuses on the diff...
Social History of the Jews in Antiquity (Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism)
The present volume comprises articles by renowned international scholars in academic dialogue with the work of Albert Baumgarten. They contextualize ancient Jewish texts not only for their own sake, but also as a way of shedding light on antiquity in general. They address texts from the fields of Greco-Roman studies, Hellenistic Judaism, Second Temple sectarianism, rabbinic literature, and various facets of early Christianity. Additionally, there are articles discussing comparative religion, soc...
Torah, Temple, Land (Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism, #184)
The present volume contains the proceedings of a conference held in October 2018 at Humboldt University Berlin. The articles reflect the different categories of describing Judaism of the Second Temple Period in view of their sustainability in characterising an ancient religious community in different historical situations and discuss relevant (re)constructions of ancient Judaism in the history of scholarship. Since the Persian period, ancient Judaism existed in a world which was in constant flux...
Banaras Reconstructed (Global South Asia)
by Regenerating Banaras Madhuri Desai
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by Jose Lizandro Estevez Jle
Between the late sixteenth and early twentieth centuries, Banaras, the iconic Hindu center in northern India that is often described as the oldest living city in the world, was reconstructed materially as well as imaginatively, and embellished with temples, monasteries, mansions, and ghats (riverfront fortress-palaces). Banaras’s refurbished sacred landscape became the subject of pilgrimage maps and its spectacular riverfront was depicted in panoramas and described in travelogues. In Banaras Re...
Catherine Hezser zeigt, dass sich die jüdische und christliche Kunst der Spätantike in kontinuierlichem Austausch mit und Bezugnahme auf die künstlerischen Ausdrucksweisen und theologischen Ansichten der jeweils anderen religiösen Gemeinschaft befand. In römisch-byzantinischer Zeit entwickelte sich im Judentum und Christentum eine Kunst, die im Gegensatz zum biblischen Bilderverbot figürliche Darstellungen verwendete und bestimmte, in der griechisch-römischen Umwelt geläufige, mythologische Moti...
Ciceros philosophische Werke gehoeren zu den grundlegenden Texten der roemischen Bildungskultur im 1. Jh. v.Chr. In seinen Dialogen und Reden behandelt Roms bekanntester Redner vielfach das Verhaltnis von Bildung und Religion. Der vorliegende Sammelband fuhrt die Beitrage einer Tagung des Goettinger SFB "Bildung und Religion" zusammen, die Ciceros Schriften im Rahmen der Bildungskultur aus philologischer und historischer Perspektive untersucht hat. Im Fokus stehen dabei das Verhaltnis von Bildun...
The Ascent of Vishnu and the Fall of Brahma (Galaxy of Hindu Gods, #2)
by Swami Achuthananda