Manichaeism in Mesopotamia and the Roman East

Lieu Samuel - Manichaeism in Mesopotamia and the Roman East

• Preface
• Abbreviations
• Mani and the Magians - CMC 137·140
• The identity of the sect
• Text and interpretation
• The setting of the encounter
• The Jews in Manichaean Literature
• Chaldaeans in Manichaean Literature
• Whose "synagogue"?
• The Leader of the Sect
• The "teaching of the fathers"
• Magic in the "Synagogue"
• Conclusion
• From Mesopotamia to the Roman East - The Diffusion of Manichaeism in the Eastern Roman Empire
• Manichaeism as a missionary religion
• The earliest missions to the Roman Empire
• Manichaeism in Roman Mesopotamia and Syria
• Manichaeism in Palestine and Arabia
• Manichacism in Egyp
• Fragments in Syriac from Oxyrhynchus and others
• The Manichaean codices from Medinet Madi
• The Cologne Mani-Codex
• The new finds at Kellis
• History of Manichaeism in Egypt
• Manichaeism in the Balkans and Asia Minor
• Fact and Fiction in the Acta Archelai
• Introduction
• Date and original language
• Charra, Carchara, Chalcar and Caschar
• The debate, the letters and the vila
• Conclusion
• "Felix conversus ex Manichaeis" . a case of mistaken identity?
• Some themes in Later Roman anti-Manichaean polemics
• Introduction
• Polemics against Mani and the Title of the Sect
• Polemics against the person of Mani
• Refutation of Mani's System
• The Problem of Evil
• Appendix: List of the main anti-Manichaean worksin Greek and Latin (3rd-6th Century)
• An early Byzantine Formula for the renunciation of Manichaeism - The Capila VII Contra Maniehaeos of . Introduction. text. translation and commentary
  
• Introduction
• The abjuration of heretical beliefs in the Late Roman Church
• The "Anathemas of Milan"
• The Latin Anathema Formulas
• The Greek Anathema Formulas
• The new text from Athos
• Conclusion
• Texts and translations of the Seven Chapters and of the Long Formula
  
• Commentary
• Appendices
• Anathemas against "latter day Manichaeans" (i.e. Paulicians) in the Long (Greek) Abjuration Formula
• The Short (Greek) Abjuration Formula
• The Milan Anathemas
• The Commonitorium Saneti Augustini
• Index of proper names
• Index of Sources

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The Light and the Darkness

Paul Mirecki & Jason BeDuhn (ed.) - The Light and the Darkness: Studies in Manichaeism and Its World.

• The Light and the Darkness: Studies in Manichaeism and its world
• The Metabolism of Salvation: Manichaean Concepts of Human Physiology
• Didymus the Blind's Knowledge of Manichaeism
• The Division of Primordial Space in Anti-Manichaean Writers' Description of the Manichaean Cosmogony
• Prolegomena to a Study of Women in Manichacism
• The Reconstruction of Mani's Epistles from Three Coptic Codices (Ismant el-Kharab and Medinet Madi)
• Reconstructing Manichaean Book Paintings through the Technique of Their Makers: The Case of The Work of Religion Scene on MIK III 4974 recto
• The Authcnticity and Doctrine of (Ps.?) Mani's Letter to Menoch
• Manichaean Allusions to Ritual and Mlagic: Spells for Invisibility in the Coptic Kephalaia
• On Human Races, Semi-Human Beings and Monsters
• A Manichaean Liturgical Instruction on the Act of Almsgiving
• A Manichacan:rurkic Disputc in Runic Script
• Subject index
• Text Index

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A Companion to Ancient Egypt. Vol. I + Vol. II

A Companion to Ancient Egypt. Vol. I. Edited by Alan B. Lloyd. Blackwell, 2010.

N.B. Ambele volume sunt intr-un singur document!

Vol. I:

• List of Illustrations
• Notes on Contributors
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• List of Abbreviations
• Chronology
• Maps
• The Land of Egypt
• The Physical Context of Ancient Egypt
• Historical Narratives
• Prehistory
• The Early Dynastic Period
• The Old Kingdom
• The First Intermediate Period and the Middle Kingdom
• The Second Intermediate Period and the New Kingdom
• Libyans and Nubians
• Saites and Persians (664–332)
• The Ptolemaic Period
• The Roman Period
• State and Economic Structures
• The Pharaoh and Pharaonic Office
• Administration and Law: Pharaonic
• Administration and Law: Graeco-Roman
• Priests and Temples: Pharaonic
• Egyptian Temples and Priests: Graeco-Roman
• The Economy: Pharaonic
• The Economy: Graeco-Roman
• Settlements – Distribution, Structure, Architecture: Pharaonic
• Settlements – Distribution, Structure, Architecture: Graeco-Roman
• Transport in Ancient Egypt
• Science and Technology: Pharaonic
• Science and Technology: Alexandrian
• Military Institutions and Warfare: Pharaonic
• Military Institutions and Warfare: Graeco-Roman
• The Social Order
• Social Structure and Daily Life: Pharaonic
• Social Structure and Daily Life: Graeco-Roman
• Religion in Society: Pharaonic
• Religion in Society: Graeco-Roman
• Bibliography

Vol. II:

• Language and Literature
• Language, Scripts, and Literacy
• Middle Kingdom Literature
• New Kingdom Literature
• Late Period Literature
• Coptic and Coptic Literature
• Greek Literature in Egypt
• The Visual Arts
• Temple Architecture and Decorative Systems
• Mortuary Architecture and Decorative Systems
• Early Dynastic Art and Iconography
• Old Kingdom Sculpture
• Sculpture of the Middle Kingdom
• New Kingdom Sculpture
• Late Period Sculpture
• Ptolemaic and Romano-Egyptian Sculpture
• Pharaonic Painting through the New Kingdom
• Mosaics and Painting in Graeco-Roman Egypt
• Egyptian Art of Late Antiquity
• The Reception of Egyptian Culture
• The Reception of Pharaonic Egypt in Classical Antiquity
• The Reception of Egypt in Europe
• The Reception of Pharaonic Egypt in Islamic Egypt
• Ancient Egypt in the Museum: Concepts and Constructions
• Bibliography
• Index

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Persee

Despre aceasta baza de date puteti citi chiar pe situl oficial. Mai jos, cateva link-uri catre niste reviste excelente dedicate lumii clasice:

• Archives de Sciences Sociales des Religions
• Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique
• Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française
• Dialogues d'histoire ancienne
• Gallia
• Gallia Préhistoire
• Mètis. Anthropologie des mondes grecs anciens
• Paléo, Revue d'Archéologie Préhistorique
• Paléorient
• Revue archéologique de Picardie
• Revue archéologique du Centre de la France
• Revue de l'histoire des religions
• Syria. Archéologie, Art et histoire
  

Martin Levey - Babylonian Chemistry

Martin Levey, Babylonian Chemistry: A Study of Arabic and Second Millenium B.C. Perfumery, in Osiris, Vol. 12 (1956), pp. 376-389.

• Introduction:
  
• Scope of this paper
• Babylonian science
• Babylonian chemistry and sources for its study
• The perfume texts, provenance and date
• Babylonian and Arabic Perfumery:
  
• Apparatus
• Operations and methods of perfume making
• Perfume texts and Arabic chemistry:
• Fire technology
• Repetition of operations
• Objectivity of perfume texts
• Conclusions
  

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Problema parului in societatea antica

Pictura de mai sus, atribuita lui Dinos, se gaseste pe un vas sicilian din sec. V i.C., si reprezinta doua femei depilandu-si parul pubian, ele fiind asistate si ajutate de Zeul Eros. Mai multe detalii, aici.

Cateva articole despre par, pilozitate, depilare in societatea antica.

N.B. Majoritatea materialelor contin si imagini.

M. Kilmer, Genital Phobia and Depilation, in The Journal of Hellenic Studies, Vol. 102, (1982), pp. 104-112. Addenum.

L. Bonfante, Nudity as a Costume in Classical Art, American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 93, Nr. 4 (Oct., 1989), pp. 543-570.

E. Parisinou, ‘Lighting’ the World of Women: Lamps and Torches in the Hands of Women in the Late Archaic and Classical Periods, in Greece & Rome, Second Series, Vol. 47, Nr. 1 (Apr., 2000), pp. 19-43.

S. Olyan, What Do Shaving Rites Accomplish and What Do They Signal in Biblical Ritual Contexts?, in Journal of Biblical Literature, Vol. 117, Nr. 4 (Winter, 1998), pp. 611-622.

Scrinium

T. 1: Varia Aethiopica. In Memory of Sevir B. Chernetsov (1943–2005)

Т. 2: Universum Hagiographicum. Mémorial R. P. Michel van Esbroeck, s. j. (1934–2003)

Т. 3: The Theophaneia School: Jewish Roots of Eastern Christian Mysticism

Т. 4: Patrologia Pacifica. Selected papers presented to the Western Pacific Rim Patristics Society 3rd Annual Conference (Nagoya, Japan, September 29 — October 1, 2006) and other patristic studies

Blochmann H. - Contributions to Persian lexicography (1868)

Blochmann H. - Contributions to Persian lexicography. Extract. 1868.

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The Ancient Languages of Mesopotamia, Egypt and Aksum (2008). Recenzie

Roger D. Woodard (ed.), The Ancient Languages of Mesopotamia, Egypt and Aksum.

Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. xix, 251. ISBN 9780521684972. $39.99.

• Editor’s foreword
• 1. Language in ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt and Aksum: an introduction
• 2. Sumerian
• 3. Elamite
• 4. Akkadian and Eblaite
• 5. Egyptian and Coptic
• 6. Ge’ez (Aksum)
• Appendix
• Full table of contents from The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World’s Ancient Languages.

Recenzie aici.

Rasfoiti aici.

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Lester Ness - Astrology and Judaism in Late Antiquity (1990)

• Introduction
• Chapter One : Astrology In Mesopotamia
• Chapter Two : Hellenistic Scientific Astrology
• Chapter Three : Astral Religion
• Chapter Four : Jewish Astrology
• Chapter Five : Astrology In Synagogue Art
• Bibliography

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Cambridge History of Later Greek and Early Medieval Philosophy (2008)

A. H. Armstrong (ed.) - Cambridge History of Later Greek and Early Medieval Philosophy (2008).

• Preface
• Abbreviations
• Introductory A. H. Armstrong
• Part I:
• 1. Greek Philosophy from Plato to Plotinus
• 2. The old academy
• 3. Aristotle
• 4. The later academy and Platonism
• 5. The Pythagoreans
• 6. The Peripatos
• 7. The Stoa
• Part II: Philo and the beginnings of Christian thought
• 8. Philo
• 9. The beginning of Christian philosophy: Justin: the Gnostics
• 10. Clement of Alexandria
• 11. Origen
• Part III: Plotinus
• 12. Life: Plotinus and the religion of superstition of his time
• 13. Teaching and writing
• 14. Man and reality
• 15. The one and intellect
• 16. From intellect to matter: the return to the one
• Part IV: The Later Neoplatonists
• 17. Introduction to later neoplatonism
• 18. Porphyry and Iamblichus
• 19. Athenian and Alexandrian Neoplatonism
• Part V: Marius Victorinus and Augustine
• 20. Marius Victorinus
• 21. Augustine. Biographical introduction: Charistianity and philosophy
• 22. Augustine. Man: body and soul
• 23. Augustine. Reason and illumination
• 24. Augustine. Sense and imagination
• 25. Augustine. Human action: will and virtue
• 26. Augustine. God and nature
• 27. Augustine: man in history and society
• Part VI: The Greek Christian Platonist tradition from the Cappadocians to Maximus and Eriugena
• 28. Introduction: Greek Christian Platonism
• 29. The Cappadocians
• 30. The pseudo-Dionysius
• 31. The reaction against Proclus
• 32. St Maximus the Confessor
• 33. The Philosophy of Icons
• 34. Johannes Scottus Eriugena
• Part VII: Western Christian thought from Boethius to Anselm
• 35. Boethius and the legacy of antiquity
• 36. Development of thought in the Carolingian Empire
• 37. The debate on philosophical learning during the transition period (900–1080)
• 38. Anselm of Canterbury: the philosophical interpretation of faith
• Part VIII: Early Islamic philosophy
• 39. Introductory
• 40. Al-Farabi and his successors
• Select bibliography
• Additional notes and bibliography
• Index of ancient and medieval works referred to in the text
• General index
• Index of Greek terms.

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Elaine Pagels - Adam, Eve, and the Serpent (1989)

Elaine Pagels - Adam, Eve, and the Serpent: Sex and Politics in Early Christianity.

• Introduction
• The Kingdom of God Is at Hand
• Christians Against the Roman Order
• Gnostic Improvisations on Genesis
• The "Paradise of Virginity" Regained
• The Politics of Paradise
• The Nature of Nature
• Epilogue
• Acknowledgments
• Notes
• Index
  

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