Serie A--Forelesninger
Title | Serie A--Forelesninger PDF eBook |
Author | Instituttet for sammenlignende kulturforskning |
Publisher | |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 1925 |
Genre | Antiquities |
ISBN |
Serie A--Forelesninger
Title | Serie A--Forelesninger PDF eBook |
Author | Instituttet for sammenlignende kulturforskning |
Publisher | |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | Antiquities |
ISBN |
Serie A--Forelesninger
Title | Serie A--Forelesninger PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 1953 |
Genre | Antiquities |
ISBN |
Ser. A : Forelesninger
Title | Ser. A : Forelesninger PDF eBook |
Author | Instituttet for sammenlignende kulturforskning |
Publisher | |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 1953 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Sovereign Authority and the Elaboration of Law in the Bible and the Ancient Near East
Title | Sovereign Authority and the Elaboration of Law in the Bible and the Ancient Near East PDF eBook |
Author | Dylan R. Johnson |
Publisher | Mohr Siebeck |
Pages | 383 |
Release | 2020-08-04 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 3161595092 |
Five Pentateuchal texts (Lev 24:10-23; Num 9:6-14; Num 15:32-36; Num 27:1-11; Num 36:1-12) offer unique visions of the elaboration of law in Israel's formative past. In response to individual legal cases, Yahweh enacts impersonal and general statutes reminiscent of biblical and ancient Near Eastern law collections. From the perspective of comparative law, Dylan R. Johnson proposes a new understanding of these texts as biblical rescripts: a legislative technique that enabled sovereigns to enact general laws on the basis of particular legal cases. Typological parallels drawn from cuneiform and Roman law illustrate the complex ideology informing the content and the form of these five cases. The author explores how latent conceptions of law, justice, and legislative sovereignty shaped these texts, and how the Priestly vision of law interacted with and transformed earlier legal traditions.
When Aseneth Met Joseph
Title | When Aseneth Met Joseph PDF eBook |
Author | Ross Shepard Kraemer |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0190253991 |
This is the study of an anonymous ancient work, usually called Joseph and Aseneth, which narrates the transformation of the daughter of an Egyptian priest into an acceptable spouse for the biblical Joseph, whose marriage to Aseneth is given brief notice in Genesis. Kraemer takes issue with the scholarly consensus that the tale is a Jewish conversion story composed no later than the early second century C.E. Instead, she dates it to the third or fourth century C.E., and argues that, although no definitive answer is presently possible, it may well be a Christian account. This critique also raises larger issues about the dating and identification of many similar writings, known as pseudepigrapha. Kraemer reads its account of Aseneth's interactions with an angelic double of Joseph in the context of ancient accounts of encounters with powerful divine beings, including the sun god Helios, and of Neoplatonic ideas about the fate of souls. When Aseneth Met Joseph demonstrates the centrality of ideas about gender in the representation of Aseneth and, by extension, offers implications for broader concerns about gender in Late Antiquity.
Leaders and Leadership in Japan
Title | Leaders and Leadership in Japan PDF eBook |
Author | Ian Neary |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 2014-05-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1134244185 |
Shows Japan's group-orientated society may have had fewer so-called 'leaders', but has excelled as a society of king-makers. On the other hand, the way leadership is expressed derives from different values and perceptions of hierarchy.