Explores the remarkable similarities between early Indian and early Greek philosophy. From the sixth century BCE onwards there was a revolution in thought, with novel ideas such as such as that understanding the inner self is both vital for human well-being and central to unders…
"104" Result
Sort By:
The Encyclopedia of Ancient Natural Scientists is the first comprehensive English language work to provide a survey of all ancient natural science, from its beginnings through the end of Late Antiquity. A team of over 100 of the world's experts in the field have compiled this En…
In this thesis, I examine the nature and role of persuasion in Roman politics in the period immediately following the assassination of Caesar on the Ides of March 44 B.C. until the capture of the city of Rome by his heir Octavianus in August 43 B.C. The purpose of my thesis is t…
After the Jerusalem Temple was destroyed in the year 70, the priestly service ceased, thus catalyzing Judaism to redefine sacrifice. Ideas about sacrifice, so bound up with notions of covenant and atonement that had long defined Israelite religion, did not simply disappear from …
Explanations of the rise of the genre apocalypse in Hellenistic Judaism have typically traced literary influences but left questions about the mechanisms by which the genre itself came about. To address these questions, this dissertation focuses new methodological and philologic…
Yemen's rugged highlands are a diverse, socio-politically complex landscape with a long history of settled agricultural life characterized by towering stone houses, monumental dams, and dramatic terraced field systems. I trace the significance of foods in ancient southwest Arabi…
This dissertation investigates a distinctive genre of Israelite poetry developed in Babylonia and Judah in the latter sixth century B.C.E. that mocks the construction and worship of cult images. I disassociate these Israelite "icon parodies" from post-biblical, dualist discourse…
“A Diachronic Examination of the Erechtheion and Its Reception” examines the social life of the Ionic temple on the Athenian Akropolis, which was built in the late 5th century B.C. to house Athens' most sacred cults and relics. Using a contextualized diachronic approach, this st…
This study utilizes ideas about social formation, mythmaking, and discourse to examine human reception and treatment of divine secret knowledge in ancient Mesopotamia and biblical Israel. The study contends that although the origin of secret knowledge was rooted in a common myth…
Sifting through centuries of mythmaking, Reza Aslan sheds new light on one of history's most influential and enigmatic characters by examining Jesus through the lens of the tumultuous era in which he lived: first-century Palestine, an age awash in apocalyptic fervor. Scores of J…
-- The Cave and the Light -- -- -- -- -- -- -- "Scrupulous, compelling, and unfailingly instructive ... a detailed and richly filigreed account that introduces the Anglo-American reader to many facts and vivid if little-known personalities, both English and Indian."--Commentary …
Details the story of the Jewish experience, tracing it across three millennia, from their beginnings as an ancient tribal people to the opening of the New World in 1492 to the modern day. A tie-in to the PBS and BBC series The Story of the Jews.
