Lady E S Drower S Scholarly Correspondence

Author : Jorunn Buckley
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004222472

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Lady E. S. Drower's Scholarly Correspondence by Jorunn Buckley Pdf

An edition of the scholarly letters of the English Lady E. S. Drower, famous for her novels, travel accounts, and studies in the Middle East, especially on the Mandaeans. Drower (1879‐1972) kept up a lively correspondence with scholars, and the letters here span the years 1938 to the mid 1960s. It presents a window on Near Eastern studies in the mid 20th century, from the viewpoint of an autodidact insisting on, and succeeding in, a place among the academics.. Correspondence with many famous scholars and intellectuals are included, such as Cyrus H. Gordon, Rudolf Macuch, Sidney H. Smith, Godfrey R. Driver, Samuel H. Hooke, and Franz Rosenthal. The letters focus on four of Lady Drower's main books: The Book of the Zodiac (1949), Water into Wine (1956), A Mandaic Dictionary (with Rudolf Macuch, 1963), and Drowers hoped for, crowning achievement: the presumably lost, large manuscript, Mass and Masiqta.

Author : Lady Ethel Stefana Drower
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-05
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9789004205192

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Lady E. S. Drower's Scholarly Correspondence by Lady Ethel Stefana Drower Pdf

An edition of the scholarly letters of the English Lady E. S. Drower, famous for her novels, travel accounts, and studies in the Middle East, especially on the Mandaeans. Drower (1879?1972) kept up a lively correspodence with scholars, and the letters here span the years 1938 to the mid?1960s.

Author : Andrew Phillip Smith
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-16
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781780289137

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John the Baptist and the Last Gnostics by Andrew Phillip Smith Pdf

Are there still Gnostics and can their roots be chased back to John the Baptist? Among the casualties of the western intervention in Iraq and the recent activities of ISIS are the Mandeans of Southern Iraq. These peace-loving people are now fleeing to the west . They are the last Gnostics, the only surviving remnant of the ancient sects who taught the direct knowledge of God, created their own gospels and myths and were persecuted as heretical by the church in the second and third centuries. The Mandeans place weekly river baptisms at the centre of their religious life and the primary exemplar of their religion is none other than John the Baptist. What is the real history of this mysterious and long lived sect? Can the Mandean peoples really be traced back to the first century? And who was John the Baptist? This book follows the history of the Mandeans from their present plight back through their earliest encounters with the West, their place in Islamic counties, their possible influence on the Templars, back to their origins as a first century baptismal sect connected to John the Baptist and beyond.

Author : Michael Stausberg,Steven Engler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 881 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191045899

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The Oxford Handbook of the Study of Religion by Michael Stausberg,Steven Engler Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of the Study of Religion provides a comprehensive overview of the academic study of religion. Written by an international team of leading scholars, its fifty-one chapters are divided thematically into seven sections. The first section addresses five major conceptual aspects of research on religion. Part two surveys eleven main frameworks of analysis, interpretation, and explanation of religion. Reflecting recent turns in the humanities and social sciences, part three considers eight forms of the expression of religion. Part four provides a discussion of the ways societies and religions, or religious organizations, are shaped by different forms of allocation of resources. Other chapters in this section consider law, the media, nature, medicine, politics, science, sports, and tourism. Part five reviews important developments, distinctions, and arguments for each of the selected topics. The study of religion addresses religion as a historical phenomenon and part six looks at seven historical processes. Religion is studied in various ways by many disciplines, and this Handbook shows that the study of religion is an academic discipline in its own right. The disciplinary profile of this volume is reflected in part seven, which considers the history of the discipline and its relevance. Each chapter in the Handbook references at least two different religions to provide fresh and innovative perspectives on key issues in the field. This authoritative collection will advance the state of the discipline and is an invaluable reference for students and scholars.

Author : Garry W. Trompf,Gunner B. Mikkelsen,Jay Johnston
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317201847

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The Gnostic World by Garry W. Trompf,Gunner B. Mikkelsen,Jay Johnston Pdf

The Gnostic World is an outstanding guide to Gnosticism, written by a distinguished international team of experts to explore Gnostic movements from the distant past until today. These themes are examined across sixty-seven chapters in a variety of contexts, from the ancient pre-Christian to the contemporary. The volume considers the intersection of Gnosticism with Jewish, Christian, Islamic and Indic practices and beliefs, and also with new religious movements, such as Theosophy, Scientology, Western Sufism, and the Nation of Islam. This comprehensive handbook will be an invaluable resource for religious studies students, scholars, and researchers of Gnostic doctrine and history.

Author : Oliver Corff
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783752802634

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Statehood in the Altaic World by Oliver Corff Pdf

Altaic Studies deal with a group of languages (and respective cultures) that show obvious similarities: Turkic, Mongol and Manchu-Tungus. Whether they are really related or whether they just influenced each other remains a matter of scholarly discussion. The Permanent International Altaistic Conference (PIAC) was established in 1957 as a working group to further research on this issue. Annual meetings have since been taking place in different countries, and the respective proceedings offer a wealth of information on the Altaic languages and cultures. The 2016 meeting took place at Ardahan, Turkey, a new and modern university close to the borders of Georgia and Armenia; it covered a wide range of subjects of which a peer-reviewed selection is published in the present volume. The papers deal with an Old Turkic inscription, the Bâbur-nâma (memoirs of Bâbur), Crimean history, Uighur calligraphy, the modern role of the Kazakh language, the ancestor cult in Turkic traditions, administrative and state concepts in the 18th century Chinese imperial pentaglot dictionary (which includes Turki), an appreciation of Denis Sinor (1916-2011), celebrated Altaist and for many years secretary general of the PIAC, the publishing projects of the outstanding Lamaist scholar and politician Lalitavajra (Rol-pa'i rdo-rje) and several poetic travelogues in Mongolia. The editors are members of the PIAC: Barbara Kellner-Heinkele is Prof. emer. of Turkic Studies (Free University of Berlin) and secretary general of the PIAC, Oliver Corff is an independent scholar of Chinese Studies, Hartmut Walravens is retired from his positions at the Berlin State Library and as Director of the worldwide ISBN system.

Author : James Daybell,Andrew Gordon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134771912

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Women and Epistolary Agency in Early Modern Culture, 1450–1690 by James Daybell,Andrew Gordon Pdf

Women and Epistolary Agency in Early Modern Culture, 1450–1690 is the first collection to examine the gendered nature of women’s letter-writing in England and Ireland from the late-fifteenth century through to the Restoration. The essays collected here represent an important body of new work by a group of international scholars who together look to reorient the study of women’s letters in the contexts of early modern culture. The volume builds upon recent approaches to the letter, both rhetorical and material, that have the power to transform the ways in which we understand, study and situate early modern women’s letter-writing, challenging misconceptions of women’s letters as intrinsically private, domestic and apolitical. The essays in the volume embrace a range of interdisciplinary approaches: historical, literary, palaeographic, linguistic, material and gender-based. Contributors deal with a variety of issues related to early modern women’s correspondence in England and Ireland. These include women’s rhetorical and persuasive skills and the importance of gendered epistolary strategies; gender and the materiality of the letter as a physical form; female agency, education, knowledge and power; epistolary networks and communication technologies. In this volume, the study of women’s letters is not confined to writings by women; contributors here examine not only the collaborative nature of some letter-writing but also explore how men addressed women in their correspondence as well as some rich examples of how women were constructed in and through the letters of men. As a whole, the book stands as a valuable reassessment of the complex gendered nature of early modern women’s correspondence.

Author : Jorunn Jacobsen Buckley
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780195153859

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The Mandaeans by Jorunn Jacobsen Buckley Pdf

The Mandaeans were a gnostic sect that arose in the Middle East around the same time as Christianity. This text examines the lives and religion of contemporary Mandaeans and provides an introduction to the religion, showing how its ancient texts inform the living religion, and vice versa.

Author : American Philosophical Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UVA:X000857866

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Year Book - The American Philosophical Society by American Philosophical Society Pdf

List of members and obituary notices in volumes for 1937- .

Author : American Academy of Religion. Meeting
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Bible
ISBN : UOM:39015081696844

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Abstracts by American Academy of Religion. Meeting Pdf

Author : Kurt Rudolph
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Church history
ISBN : UVA:X006053845

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Gnosisforschung und Religionsgeschichte by Kurt Rudolph Pdf

Author : David M. Wrobel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015029187120

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The End of American Exceptionalism by David M. Wrobel Pdf

A lucid and rewarding synthesis of cultural and western history. -- Richard W. Etulain, author of Writing Western History. Wrobel makes a fine contribution to the study of myth by analyzing the anxiety, or angst, Americans felt about the frontier in the half-century after 1890. This is an excellent book on a big subject, executed with much skill. -- Western Historical Quarterly. Direct, admirably brief, and crisply written. -- Journal of American History.

Author : John Marco Allegro
Publisher : Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Bible
ISBN : UOM:39015063632593

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The Shapira Affair by John Marco Allegro Pdf

In the late 1880's Shapira arrived in England with several strips of parchment, claiming that they were found in the Dead Sea area and were part of an eraly version of Deuteronomy. Experts called them forgeries. Some scholars now believe that they may actually have been a portion of the oldest Bible in the world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Theology
ISBN : UGA:32108054116341

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Theology by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lady Ethel Stefana Drower
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Mandaeans
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Mandaeans of Iraq and Iran by Lady Ethel Stefana Drower Pdf