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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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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studies in the history of religions in honour of Jan N. Bremmer

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edited by Jitse Dijkstra, Justin Kroesen, and Yme Kuiper

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• Myths, martyrs, and modernity : studies in the history of religions in honour of Jan N. Bremmer

Publication

• Leiden | Boston, Brill, 2010

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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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

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9789004193659

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