"Ancient Greece has for too long been studied in isolation from its Near Eastern neighbors. And the Ancient Near East itself has for too long been seen as an undifferentiated cultural monolith. Classics and Near Eastern studies, in our modern universities, continue to be separat…
Orienting space and self -- Cosmos in texts: explaining the blueness of the sky -- Cosmos in the Maala: salvation through geography -- Cosmos in offering: piling a mountain of treasures -- Cosmos in architecture: sacred space and murals -- Portraits of landscapes
"The scope of Timaeus is awesome. It consists largely of Plato's attempt to develop an account, both scientific and suggestive, of pretty much everything about our universe the macrocosm and the microcosm, the visible and the invisible, the divine and the human. Everything about…
One Book, The Whole Universe: Plato's Timaeus Today brings together philosophers, classicists, physicists and architects to reveal the meaning and assess the impact of one of the most profound and influential texts in Western Civilization. Featuring the latest scholarship from s…
The theology of creation interconnected with virtually every aspect of early Christian thought, from Trinitarian doctrine to salvation to ethics. Paul M. Blowers provides an advanced introduction to the multiplex relation between Creator and creation as an object both of theolog…
One God, Two Goddesses presents three studies, one of Tamil myths of the god Murugan and two of goddess rituals: Gangamma in Tirupati and Paiditalli in Vizianagaram, both in Andhra Pradesh. All three essays search for lineaments of the cosmos that these deities inhabit and shape…
One God, Two Goddesses studies through their deities three very different South Indian cosmic worlds whose existence depends on their incessant dynamism, which is deeply and intimately related to ongoing transformation and regeneration.
How did the world begin? How were the first people created and which specific roles were they supposed to play in the cosmos? Like other mythologies worldwide, China's creation and origin myths explain how man created order out of chaos and imposed culture on nature. Cross-cultu…
"Bede and the Cosmos examines Bede's cosmology-his understanding of the universe and its laws. It explores his ideas regarding both the structure and mechanics of the created world and the relationship of that world to its Creator. Beginning with On the Nature of Things and movi…
