Muslim Conversions to Christ
Muslim Conversions to Christ focuses on the so-called Insider Movement (as promoted by certain missiologists). Drawing on international scholars and practitioners in the fields of the history and nature of Islam, the Qur'an, Christian-Muslim relations, biblical theology, and practical missiology, this book presents a solid academic rejoinder to the IM phenomenon. Moreover, it brings into the conversation the voices of believers from Muslim backgrounds (BMBs), Middle Eastern scholars, and missiol...
The Seer in Ancient Greece (Joan Palevsky Imprint in Classical Literature)
by Michael Flower
The seer (mantis), an expert in the art of divination, operated in ancient Greek society through a combination of charismatic inspiration and diverse skills ranging from examining the livers of sacrificed animals to spirit possession. Unlike the palm readers and mediums who exist on the fringe of modern society, many seers were highly paid, well respected, educated members of the elite who played an essential role in the conduct of daily life, political decisions, and military campaigns. Armies,...
Der Monenergetisch-Monotheletische Streit (Berliner Byzantinistische Studien, #6)
by Friedhelm Winkelmann
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...
Classical Myth: Pearson New International Edition
by Halls-Bascomb Professor of Classics Emeritus Barry B Powell
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.
Ramat Rahel III (Monograph Series of the Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology, #35)
by Oded Lipschits, Yuval Gadot, and Liora Freud
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.
Thresholds of the Sacred (Dumbarton Oaks Other Titles in Byzantine Studies (HUP))
by Sharon E. J. Gerstel, Elizabeth Bolman, Joan Branham, Nicholas Constas, and Marcia Hall
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...
At the Court of Osiris (Oxfordshire Communications in Egyptology, v. 4)
The Gods of Olympos, or Mythology of the Greeks and Romans
by A H Petiscus
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...