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Bei dieser Auseinandersetzung des 7. Jahrhunderts handelt es sich um einen wichtigen Abschnitt der Theologiegeschichte, der weitgehend noch bis heute in seinem eigentlichen Anliegen verkannt wird. In ihm wurde namlich der berechtigte Versuch unternommen, einen Beitrag zur Frage nach der Bedeutung des biblischen Jesus fur den christlichen Glauben zu leisten, der uber die im 5. und 6. Jahrhundert auf der Grundlage der griechischen Naturenlehre erreichten christologischen Beschlusse hinausfuhren so...

Horos Dios draws on a wide variety of literary and archaeological evidence to argue that an Archaic horos inscription and other rock cuttings on the northeast slope of the Hill of the Nymphs in Athens are remnants of a shrine of Zeus Meilichios, a popular god of purification worshipped widely in Athens, Attica, and the greater Greek world.

The excavations at el-Ahwat constitute a unique and fascinating archaeological undertaking. The site is the location of a fortified city dated to the early Iron Age (ca. 1220-1150 BCE), hidden in a dense Mediterranean forest in central Israel, near the historic 'Arunah pass. Discovered in 1992 and excavated between 1993 and 2000, the digs revealed an urban "time capsule" erected and inhabited during a short period of time (60-70 years), with no earlier site below or subsequent one above it. Th...

How did the Greeks worship? The ancient Greeks lived in many separate city states. Each was run in different ways. Sometimes, the city states fought each other. But they shared the same religion and language. Religion was important to all ancient Greeks. They believed in many different gods and goddesses, who could affect life on earth. The gods and goddesses had to be worshipped to keep them happy. As part of this worship, the ancient Greeks built beautiful temples as homes for the gods.

This book brings to complete and final publication two past excavations conducted at the site of Ramat Rahel. A major part of the report is devoted to publishing the results of Yohanan Aharoni's long-term excavation project at the site during the years 1954, 1956, 1959-1962. The renewal of excavations at the site in 2004 triggered the need to reevaluate the site's architecture and stratigraphy, and from that the idea to publish this report was born.

This volume presents contributions of the Catholic-Lutheran International Conference held at the Pontifical Athenaeum of St. Anselm in Rome in 2016. The scholars were invited to reflect together on the questions of forgiveness, conversion and penance in the context of the ecumenical dialogue that has been going on since the Second Vatican Council. Precisely because stemming from a deep rethinking of God's forgiveness, the movement that began half a millennium ago has borne diverse fruits in diff...

This book examines one of the most intriguing figures in the religious life of the ancient Mediterranean world, the Phrygian Mother Goddess, known to the Greeks and Romans as Cybele or Magna Mater, the Great Mother. Her cult was particularly prominent in central Anatolia (modern Turkey), and spread from there through the Greek and Roman world. She was an enormously popular figure, attracting devotion from common people and potentates alike. This book is the first comprehensive assembly and discu...

A fresh translation of the Pistis Sophia from the Coptic and a discussion of its historical setting.Sophia is one of the great symbols of the divine feminine in world civilization and the personification of divine Wisdom. In Gnosticism, the secret teaching of ancient Christianity, she represents the consciousness that all of us share, but which became trapped in the material world as a result of the Fall.One of the most sublime Gnostic texts is the Pistis Sophia or "Faith Wisdom," a great allego...

Anlasslich des 800. Geburtstages der heiligen Elisabeth von Thuringen wurde 2007 in Marburg ein wissenschaftliches Symposion durchgefuhrt, das Elisabeths karitatives Wirken in den Kontext der grossen religioesen Bewegungen jener Zeit stellte. Die Subjektivierung der Froemmigkeit, die von den grossen Reformorden ausging, erfasste um 1200 nachhaltig auch die Laiengesellschaft. Vor allem Frauen drangten nach Teilhabe am religioesen Leben und strebten eine moeglichst radikale Nachfolge Christi an. E...

Heirs to the Punic and Berber traditions, the North Africans, once conquered by the Romans and willing to show respect for their new masters' gods, did not want to forsake their beloved ancestral deities and solved this dilemma by giving Roman names to their traditional gods, who nevertheless kept most of their former natures. This phenomenon, known as interpretatio romana, resulted in an interpenetration of both religious universes, each being enriched in the process. Roman African gods thus co...

This volume brings together nineteen studies by foremost experts in the period of Herod and Augustus, and highlights recent progress in elucidating the phenomenon of Herod the Great in the context of the Roman imperial order inaugurated by Augustus. They illuminate Herod's pre-eminent role in the Augustan client network and his remarkable energies, expressed in an extensive building programme which has left substantial remains. The literary records of Herod's life and times, primarily by Josephu...

Asceticism and Anthropology in Irenaeus and Clement examines the ways in which Irenaeus and Clement understood what it means to be human. By exploring these writings from within their own theological perspectives, John Behr also offers a theological critique of the prevailing approach to the asceticism of Late Antiquity. Writing before monasticism became the dominant paradigm of Christian asceticism, Irenaeus and Clement afford fascinating glimpses of alternative approaches. For Irenaeus, asceti...

The extent to which Christianity affected the society and politics of Roman Britain is subject to debate. This well-illustrated study avoids literary evidence, which is often more open to interpretation, to focus on archaeological remains. Petts examines the distribution of early churches, particularly the impact of religious buildings on the rural landscape, and identifies possible fonts and stone cisterns, evidence for the earliest conversions.

Kurt Weitzmann, a renowned art historian who for many years was a professor of art at Princeton University, often demonstrated in hiw own writing the value of crossing the boundaries that have traditionally divided ancient, Byzantine and Western medieval art. The legacy of that approach is apparent in the wide range of essays making up this volume, in which 70 American, European and Asian scholars pay homage to this scholar. The articles presented in this book include studies of ancient, Late An...

For nearly two millenia, despite repeated prohibitions, Christian women have preached. Some have preached in official settings; others have found alternative routes for expression. Prophecy, teaching, writing and song have all filled a broad definition of preaching. This anthology, with essays by an international group of scholars from several disciplines, investigates the diverse voices of Christian women who claimed the authority to preach and prophesy. The contributors examine the centuries o...