studies in the history of religions in honour of Jan N. Bremmer /
edited by Jitse Dijkstra, Justin Kroesen, and Yme Kuiper
lvi, 701 pages :
illustrations ;
25 cm
Numen book series. Studies in the history of religions,
v. 127
0169-8834 ;
"Bibliography of Jan N. Bremmer, 1969-2009": pages [xxxix]-lvi
Includes bibliographical references and index
Pt. 1. Greek and Roman religion. The Calydonian boar / Martin West -- Lesbian Sappho revisited / André Lardinois -- The significance (or insignificance) of blackness in mythological names / Richard Buxton -- The creativity of disaster / Sarah Iles Johnston -- Untimely death for the young girl : etiological foundations and initiation practices in classical Athens / Claude Calame -- The so-called envy of the gods : revisiting a dogma of ancient Greek religion / Lautario Roig Lanzilotta -- Earthquakes and the gods : reflections on Graeco-Roman responses to catastrophic events / Fritz Graf -- Oracles and Greek mentalities : the mantic confirmation of mantic revelations / Pierre Bonnechere -- Pharaian kledomancy / Kenneth Lapatin -- A Socratic leaf charm for headache (Charmides 155b-157c), Orphic gold leaves, and the ancient Greek tradition of leaf amulets / Christopher A. Faraone -- Callimachus' sacrifice to Apollo (fragment 1.21-24) / Ruurd R. Nauta -- Women's affairs? : on a group of attic votive reliefs with unusual decoration / Anja Klöckner -- New problems in Athenian religion : the 'sacred law' from Aixone / Robert Parker -- Contracting caterers on Keos / Peter van Minnen -- Mnasistratos, the 'Hierophant' at Andania (IG 5.1.1390 and Syll.³ 735) / Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge -- Pictures from an execution / Nicholas Horsfall -- Magian lessons in natural history : unique animals in Graeco-Roman natural magic / Richard Gordon -- Pliny : the piety of a persecutor / Walter Ameling -- Religio versus religion / Giovanni Casadio -- Pt. 2. Judaism and early Christianity. Scribal practices in the Aramaic literary texts from Qumran / Florentino García Martínez -- The greatest translation of all time : the cultural importance of the Septuagint / Jack Miles -- The reception of Daniel 3 and 6 and the Maccabean martyrdoms in Hebrews 11:33-38 / Jan Willem van Henten -- Without God : some notes on a Greek expression / Pieter W. van der Horst -- Is early Christianity a religion or a philosophy? : reflections on the importance of 'knowledge' and 'truth' in the letters of Paul and Peter / George H. van Kooten -- Rationales for the adoption of Christianity / Ken Dowden -- Rewriting and textual fluidity in antiquity : exploring the socio-cultural and psychological context of earliest Christian literacy / István Czachesz -- Thomas in Edessa? : another look at the original setting of the Gospel of Thomas / Pierluigi Piovanelli -- Orphics and gnostics / Einar Thomassen -- Recognizing demons / Jan den Boeft -- Alternative uses of garments in the Graeco-Roman world / Ton Hilhorst -- Athens or Jerusalem? : from eschatological hopes to cultural memory / Guy G. Stroumsa --
Pt. 3. History of religion and modernity. The gospel of Kaundinya : the descent of God in Gujarat and the practice of imitating God / Hans Bakker -- From alien to familiar : Christ in language and law of medieval Frisia / Rolf H. Bremmer Jr -- The Platonic frenzies in Marsilio Ficino / Wouter J. Hanegraaff -- Living well and living on : martyrdom and the Imago vitae in the early modern age / Christoph Auffarth -- Religious knowledge and the origins of modernity / Lynn Hunt, Margaret Jacob, and Wijnand Mijnhardt -- Si vis me flere.. : on preachers, passions and pathos in eighteenth-century Europe / Herman Roodenburg -- On Monte verità : myth and modernity in the Lebensreform movement / Yme Kuiper -- For the sake of the community : two scripts of martyrdom operations among Muslims / Hans G. Kippenberg -- Rewriting the book of nature : Kabbalah and the metaphors of contemporary life-sciences / Kocku von Stuckrad