Search results for "Religious studies"
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The Portrayal of Paul's Outer Appearance in the Acts of Paul and Thecla. Re-Considering the Correspondence between Body and Personality in Ancient Li…
2008
AbstractThis essay claims that Paul's description in Acts Paul Thecl. 3, if read against the background of Graeco-Roman physiognomics, i.e., the belief in the coherence between outer appearance and inner qualities of a person, is not derogative as assumed in older research but agreeable. The positive interpretation of Paul's outer appearance is corroborated by an analysis of the reactions he evokes in followers (Onesiphorus, Thecla) as well as opponents (Theoclia, Thamyris). It is demonstrated that Paul's physiognomy corresponds to his apostolic identity.
The Self as Enemy, the Self as Divine: A Crossroads in the Development of Islamic Anthropology
2008
Elisabeth Arweck and Heather Shipley (eds): Young People and the Diversity of (Non)religious Identities in International Perspective
2021
Review of Elisabeth Arweck and Heather Shipley (eds): Young People and the Diversity of (Non)religious Identities in International Perspective. Springer, 2019.
John Demos. The Heathen School: A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the Early Republic.
2015
Michael Fleming.Auschwitz, the Allies and Censorship of the Holocaust.
2016
The ‘grave of the Court Pit’, A rediscovered Bronze Age tomb from Carchemish
2014
This paper examines the British Museum unpublished records related to an Early Bronze (EB) Age pithos burial uncovered a century ago in the Inner Town at Carchemish. The grave, cursorily cited and variously dated (Chalcolithic, EB or even LBA) in the final reports, was described in some detail by Hogarth and Thompson; a precise dating is, however, possible today thanks to the information of paramount importance given by T. E. Lawrence who identified and took a picture of the associated finds, which was recently rediscovered in the Carchemish Archives. The pithos can be now ascribed to the third quarter of the third millennium BC and helps to confirm the recent theory according to which the …
Masada: From Jewish Revolt to Modern Myth
2021
For a site as famous as Masada (Arabic es-Sebba), we have been lacking a good overview. There is a popular treatment of the excavations (Yadin 1966), a resume of the excavations in light of the fin...
700 Skarabäen und Verwandtes aus Palästina/Israel
2020
Professor Othmar Keel has finally published his private collection of 700 scarabs and related material in a lavishly illustrated grand-sized book in the renowned series Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis...