Water In The Cultic Worship Of Isis And Sarapis

Author : Robert Wild
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004295674

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Water in the Cultic Worship of Isis and Sarapis by Robert Wild Pdf

Preliminary material -- INTRODUCTION -- OVERVIEW OF THE EVIDENCE -- THE NILE WATER CRYPTS -- OTHER TYPES OF FIXED NILE WATER CONTAINERS -- WHY NILE WATER? 1. EVIDENCE FROM THE CRYPTS -- WHY NILE WATER? 2. EVIDENCE FROM OUTSIDE THE CULT -- WHY NILE WATER? 3. THE OSIRIS EVIDENCE -- ABLUTION FACILITIES AND RITUALS -- EGYPTIANIZING THE CULT OF THE EGYPTIAN GODS -- SURVEY OF THE SITES -- OTHER TYPES OF CRYPTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE CULT -- NOTES -- INDICES -- LIST OF PLATES -- PLATES I-XXX AND MAP.

Author : Elizabeth A. McCabe
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0761834028

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An Examination of the Isis Cult with Preliminary Exploration Into New Testament Studies by Elizabeth A. McCabe Pdf

This work serves as an investigation of the Isis cult by tracing its development from Egypt into Greco-Roman society. The origin of the Isis cult is described by using the accounts of Plutarch, Apuleius, and Diodorus before examining the effects of Isis on Egyptian culture. The Isis cult soon overflows into the Greco-Roman world. While this mysterious religion initially encounters opposition, especially since it clashes with Roman patriarchal society, it overcomes these limitations.

Author : Donghyun Jeong
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110791501

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Pauline Baptism among the Mysteries by Donghyun Jeong Pdf

This monograph provides an alternative model for looking at the old question about Paul and the mysteries in a new light. Specifically, this study compares rituals—baptism in the Pauline communities and the initiation rituals of the mysteries—through the lens of cultural anthropology and the sociology of religion. Three research questions lead the project: What benefits does each initiation ritual promise its participants? What are the underlying messages or structures that guarantee the efficacy of those rituals? How and to what extent is the initiation ritual connected to the participants’ cognition and ethics beyond initiation itself? Taking those questions as the analytical framework, this study substantiates two points: first, in terms of ritual messages, baptism in the Pauline communities is a ritual analogous to mystery initiation, and second, Paul is an innovative interpreter of ritual who recalibrates the messages of preexisting rituals for his theological and ethical program, seeking to radically extend the implications of initiation to the embodied life of every Christ-believer. Students and scholars of New Testament, early Christianity, classics, and ritual studies will benefit from engaging this volume.

Author : Stanley E. Porter,Anthony R. Cross
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1999-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567123442

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Baptism, the New Testament and the Church by Stanley E. Porter,Anthony R. Cross Pdf

The question of the meaning and significance of baptism is explored from a number of different perspectives in this volume. Inspired by the honoree of this volume and his important work on the subject, the contributors approach baptism from biblical, historical, theological and practical perspectives. Some of the essays re-examine the well-known biblical texts, feeling free to probe their implications. Others tease out the implications of the concept of baptism in a variety of contexts, both ancient and modern. Contributors include Joel Green, Geoffrey Bromiley, Larry Kreitzer, John Nolland, Ramsey Michaels and J.D.G. Dunn.

Author : Nathalie LaCoste
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004384309

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Waters of the Exodus by Nathalie LaCoste Pdf

In Waters of the Exodus, Nathalie LaCoste examines the Diasporic Jewish community in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt and their relationship to the hydric environment through a close study of four rewritings of the exodus narrative.

Author : Richard S. Ascough
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725267527

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Paul's Macedonian Associations by Richard S. Ascough Pdf

Richard Ascough uses Greco-Roman associations as a comparative model for understanding early Christian community organization, with specific attention to Paul’s Macedonian Christian communities.

Author : Joseph A. Marchal
Publisher : SBL Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781628370973

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The People beside Paul by Joseph A. Marchal Pdf

Who are the people beside Paul, and what can we know about them? This volume brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars with a broad range of expertise and a common interest: Philippi in antiquity. Each essay engages one set of contextual particularities for Paul and the ordinary people of the Philippian assembly, while simultaneously placing them in wider settings. This 'people's history' uses both traditional and more cutting-edge methods to reconsider archaeology and architecture, economy and ethnicity, prisons and priestesses, slavery, syncretism, stereotypes of Jews, the colony of Philippi, and a range of communities. The contributors are Valerie Abrahamsen, Richard S. Ascough, Robert L. Brawley, Noelle Damico, Richard A. Horsley, Joseph A. Marchal, Mark D. Nanos, Peter Oakes, Gerardo Reyes Chavez, Angela Standhartinger, Eduard Verhoef, and Antoinette Clark Wire. Features An examination of the social forms and forces that shaped and affected the Philippian church Essays offer insight into standard questions about the letter s hymn and audience, Paul's 'opponents,' and the sites of the community and of Paul's imprisonment A focused exploration of more marginalized topics and groups, including women, slaves, Jews, and members of localized cults

Author : Laurent Bricault
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004413900

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Isis Pelagia: Images, Names and Cults of a Goddess of the Seas by Laurent Bricault Pdf

In Isis Pelagia, Laurent Bricault offers a new interpretation of many of the various sources on Isis as a goddess of the seas in the Graeco-Roman world.

Author : Brook W.R. Pearson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004493629

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Corresponding Sense by Brook W.R. Pearson Pdf

Corresponding Sense represents a turning point in the application of ‘hermeneutics’ to New Testament texts. Following the example of Hans-Georg Gadamer’s ‘philosophical hermeneutics’, Pearson treats several different problems in New Testament interpretation centred around the figure of Paul. In so doing, he demonstrates how a dialogical approach to the interpretation of ancient texts functions pragmatically to allow for a deeper understanding not only of individual texts, but also of their siting with the larger dialectical web of the texts and contexts of the ancient world. This approach, developed here in connection with the New Testament, also has relevance to other literature. In Corresponding Sense, Pearson outlines what he calls a ‘dialectical topography’—the tracing of connections and disjunctions between texts and their subject matter both within and outside of the New Testament. He uses both theoretical and practical discussion to demonstrate this approach, showing how it functions as a new way of approaching a Paul who is a member of a much larger community than simply the Judaism of his fathers—a Paul who participates in cultural narratives which extend throughout not only earliest Christianity, but also into the wider thought-world of the Roman Empire.

Author : Manolis I. Stefanakis,Georgios Mavroudis,Fani K. Seroglou
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781803274522

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Religion and Cult in the Dodecanese during the First Millennium BC by Manolis I. Stefanakis,Georgios Mavroudis,Fani K. Seroglou Pdf

This volume publishes the proceedings of the conference of the same name, held in Rhodes in October 2018. Contributions draw on archaeological and literary sources to explore both the development and continuity of cults in the Dodecanese, from the Early Iron Age through to the 1st century BC.

Author : Gloria S. Merker,Nancy Bookidis
Publisher : ASCSA
Page : 627 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780876611838

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The Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore by Gloria S. Merker,Nancy Bookidis Pdf

Author : Everett Ferguson
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0802822215

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Backgrounds of Early Christianity by Everett Ferguson Pdf

New to this expanded & updated edition are revisions of Ferguson's original material, updated bibliographies, & a fresh dicussion of first century social life, the Dead Sea Scrolls & much else.

Author : Helmut Koester
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110814064

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History, Culture, and Religion of the Hellenistic Age by Helmut Koester Pdf

While the first American edition of this book, published more than a decade ago, was a revised translation of the German book, Einführung in das Neue Testament, this second edition of the first volume of the Introduction to the New Testament is no longer dependent upon a previously published German work. The author hopes that for the student of the New Testament it is a useful introduction into the many complex aspects of the political, cultural, and religious developments that characterized the world in which early Christianity arose and by which the New Testament and other early Christian writings were shaped.

Author : David L. Balch
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3161493834

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Roman Domestic Art and Early House Churches by David L. Balch Pdf

Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Rome have yielded hundreds of wall paintings from domestic buildings. Greek myths and tragedies, especial by Euripides were visually represented. Balch presents an interdisciplinary study inquiring what earliest Jews and Christian in such houses might have been seeing as they read and interpreted scripture and performed core rituals, especially the Eucharist. This recent study of Roman domestic architecture suggests new perspectives on the social history of early Christianity.--Publisher.

Author : Valentino Gasparini,Richard Veymiers
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1191 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004381346

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Individuals and Materials in the Greco-Roman Cults of Isis (SET) by Valentino Gasparini,Richard Veymiers Pdf

In Individuals and Materials in the Greco-Roman Cults of Isis Valentino Gasparini and Richard Veymiers present 26 studies with a focus on the individuals and groups which animated the diffusion and reception of the cults of Isis and other Egyptian gods throughout the Hellenistic and Roman worlds.