UID:
almahu_9949465339602882
Format:
1 online resource (409 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9783839442364
Series Statement:
Mainzer Historische Kulturwissenschaften
Note:
Cover -- CONTENT -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- The Construction and Transfer of Knowledge in the Pre-Modern Era -- SECTION 1: METHODOLOGICAL AND THEORETICAL ASPECTS -- Transmitting Symbolic Concepts from the Perspective of Cultural Cognition - The Acquisition and Transfer of Folk-biological Knowledge -- The Transfer of Knowledge from Mesopotamia to Egypt -- Epistemology in the Biblical Tradition - Judean Knowledge-Building, Scribal Craftsmanship, and Scribal Culture -- Bodies of Texts, Bodies of Tradition - Medical Expertise and Knowledge of the Body among Rabbinic Jews in Late Antiquity -- The Reception and Rejection of "Foreign" Astronomical Knowledge in Byzantium -- SECTION 2: OF MAN AND MOON - KNOWLEDGE AND CULTURAL MEANING OF THE MOON -- "He assigned Him as the Jewel of the night" - The Knowledge of the Moon in Mesopotamian Texts of the Late Second and First Millennia BCE -- Shapeshifter - Knowledge of the Moon in Graeco-Roman Egypt -- Concepts Concerning the Moon in Plutarch's De facie in orbe lunae - Found, Inherited, or Borrowed Ideas -- Conclusion - Of Moon and Men: Observations about the Knowledge of the Moon in Antiquity -- SECTION 3: THE END OF THE WORLD IN FIRE - IMAGINATIONS FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE MIDDLE AGES -- Know Your Sources Before You Argue - Minucius Felix and Augustine of Hippo on the Conflagration -- The Idea of an Apocalyptic Fire According to the Old and Middle Iranian Sources -- Poets, Prophets, and Philosophers - The End of the World According to Otto von Freising -- The Ragnarǫk Myth in Scandinavia - Finding, Inheriting, and Borrowing -- Conclusion - The End of the World in Fire -- About the Authors -- Authors and Texts Cited -- General index.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Althoff, Jochen Finding, Inheriting or Borrowing? Bielefeld : transcript,c2019 ISBN 9783837642360
Language:
English
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