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Myths, martyrs, and modernity : studies in the history of religions in honour of Jan N. Bremmer, edited by Jitse Dijkstra, Justin Kroesen, and Yme Kuiper

Work
Publication
Extent
1 online resource (lvi, 701 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates)
Contents
  • Sarah Iles Johnston.
  • Untimely death for the young girl : etiological foundations and initiation practices in classical Athens
  • Claude Calame.
  • The 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
  • Greek and Roman religion.
  • 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
  • The Calydonian boar
  • 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
  • Martin West.
  • Giovanni Casadio
  • Judaism and early Christianity.
  • Scribal practices in the Aramaic literary texts from Qumran
  • Florentino García Martínez.
  • The greatest translation of all time : the cultural importance of the Septuagint
  • Jack Miles.
  • The 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.
  • Lesbian Sappho revisited
  • 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.
  • André Lardinois.
  • 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
  • The significance (or insignificance) of blackness in mythological names
  • Richard Buxton.
  • The creativity of disaster
  • 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
  • History of religion and modernity.
  • Kocku von Stuckrad
  • The 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.
  • The Platonic frenzies in Marsilio Ficino
  • Wouter J. Hanegraaff.
  • Living well and living on : martyrdom and the Imago vitae in the early modern age
Isbn
9789004193659
Instance
Label
Myths, martyrs, and modernity : studies in the history of religions in honour of Jan N. Bremmer
Title
Myths, martyrs, and modernity
Title remainder
studies in the history of religions in honour of Jan N. Bremmer
Statement of responsibility
edited by Jitse Dijkstra, Justin Kroesen, and Yme Kuiper
Contributor
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Member of
Cataloging source
N$T
Dewey number
201/.309
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • plates
Index
index present
LC call number
BL312
LC item number
.M989 2010eb
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
1975-
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
  • Bremmer, Jan N
  • Dijkstra, Jitse H. F
  • Kroesen, J. E. A.
  • Kuiper, Y
Series statement
Numen book series. Studies in the history of religions,
Series volume
v. 127
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Myth
  • Mythology
  • Christianity
  • Christianity and other religions
  • Judaism
  • Religion
  • Civilization, Modern
  • Bremmer, Jan N
  • Bremmer, Jan Nicolaas
  • Bremmer, Jan N
  • RELIGION
  • BODY, MIND & SPIRIT
  • Christianity
  • Christianity
  • Civilization, Modern
  • Interfaith relations
  • Judaism
  • Myth
  • Mythology
  • Religion
  • Christentum
  • Judentum
  • Kirchengeschichte
  • Antike
  • Religion
  • Religion
  • Mythologie
  • Antike
  • Frühchristentum
  • Frühjudentum
  • Moderne
  • Griechenland (Altertum)
  • Römisches Reich
  • Mytologi
  • Religionshistoria
  • Kristendom och judendom
Label
Myths, martyrs, and modernity : studies in the history of religions in honour of Jan N. Bremmer, edited by Jitse Dijkstra, Justin Kroesen, and Yme Kuiper
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Publication
Antecedent source
unknown
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Sarah Iles Johnston.
  • Untimely death for the young girl : etiological foundations and initiation practices in classical Athens
  • Claude Calame.
  • The 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
  • Greek and Roman religion.
  • 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
  • The Calydonian boar
  • 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
  • Martin West.
  • Giovanni Casadio
  • Judaism and early Christianity.
  • Scribal practices in the Aramaic literary texts from Qumran
  • Florentino García Martínez.
  • The greatest translation of all time : the cultural importance of the Septuagint
  • Jack Miles.
  • The 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.
  • Lesbian Sappho revisited
  • 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.
  • André Lardinois.
  • 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
  • The significance (or insignificance) of blackness in mythological names
  • Richard Buxton.
  • The creativity of disaster
  • 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
  • History of religion and modernity.
  • Kocku von Stuckrad
  • The 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.
  • The Platonic frenzies in Marsilio Ficino
  • Wouter J. Hanegraaff.
  • Living well and living on : martyrdom and the Imago vitae in the early modern age
Control code
711003875
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (lvi, 701 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates)
File format
unknown
Form of item
online
Isbn
9789004193659
Level of compression
unknown
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other physical details
illustrations.
Quality assurance targets
not applicable
Reformatting quality
unknown
Sound
unknown sound
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)711003875
Label
Myths, martyrs, and modernity : studies in the history of religions in honour of Jan N. Bremmer, edited by Jitse Dijkstra, Justin Kroesen, and Yme Kuiper
Publication
Antecedent source
unknown
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Sarah Iles Johnston.
  • Untimely death for the young girl : etiological foundations and initiation practices in classical Athens
  • Claude Calame.
  • The 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
  • Greek and Roman religion.
  • 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
  • The Calydonian boar
  • 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
  • Martin West.
  • Giovanni Casadio
  • Judaism and early Christianity.
  • Scribal practices in the Aramaic literary texts from Qumran
  • Florentino García Martínez.
  • The greatest translation of all time : the cultural importance of the Septuagint
  • Jack Miles.
  • The 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.
  • Lesbian Sappho revisited
  • 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.
  • André Lardinois.
  • 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
  • The significance (or insignificance) of blackness in mythological names
  • Richard Buxton.
  • The creativity of disaster
  • 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
  • History of religion and modernity.
  • Kocku von Stuckrad
  • The 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.
  • The Platonic frenzies in Marsilio Ficino
  • Wouter J. Hanegraaff.
  • Living well and living on : martyrdom and the Imago vitae in the early modern age
Control code
711003875
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (lvi, 701 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates)
File format
unknown
Form of item
online
Isbn
9789004193659
Level of compression
unknown
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other physical details
illustrations.
Quality assurance targets
not applicable
Reformatting quality
unknown
Sound
unknown sound
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)711003875

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