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Peeters Publishers Le combat de cavalerie dans le monde romain
Ce livre consacré à l’histoire de la cavalerie romaine s’intéresse principalement à l’évolution du recrutement, de l’organisation, du déploiement tactique et des modes de combat des troupes montées entre la fin de l’époque républicaine et le VIe siècle ap. J.-C. L’importance croissante de la cavalerie marque en effet une rupture essentielle dans l’histoire de l’art militaire romain. Au primat des guerres offensives, de la bataille rangée et de l’infanterie lourde succède progressivement celui de la temporisation, de la guérilla frontalière et des cavaliers-archers. Ces changements, qui n’ont jamais fait l’objet d’une analyse approfondie, sont remis en perspective dans le temps long. Le dialogue des sources narratives, techniques, figurées et archéologiques permet de dégager un schéma évolutif cohérent, un «développement organique des formes de combat» (Hans Delbrück), que l’auteur prend soin de réinscrire dans le contexte plus large de l’évolution de la société romaine et des contacts entre Rome et sa périphérie «barbare».
£217.71
Peeters Publishers Quand les dualistes polémiquaient: zoroastriens et manichéens
Les auteurs de cet ouvrage montrent que le zoroastrisme et le manichéisme, qui partagent une vision dualiste du monde et des entités primordiales, ont posé de façon similaire au judaïsme, au christianisme et à l’islam la question du rapport des adeptes à la vérité et donc à l’erreur des autres. Cet ouvrage apporte donc une pierre fondamentale à l’étude du phénomène de la controverse religieuse dans l’Antiquité tardive et au début du Moyen ge. Il nous permet de mieux appréhender deux systèmes de pensée de l’Orient, en ce qu’ils ont de commun mais aussi dans leur irréductible singularité. The authors of this collected volume show that Zoroastrianism and Manichaeism, which share a dualist vision of the world and the primordial entities, have raised in a similar way to Judaism, Christianity and Islam the question of the relationship of their followers to truth and therefore the error made by others. The volume makes a fundamental contribution to the study of the phenomenon of religious controversy in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. It allows us to better understand two Eastern systems of thought, both in what they have in common and in their irreducible individuality.
£100.85
Peeters Publishers Mysticism and/as Love Theory
Mysticism is all about love. Mystics love God and want to get in touch with Him. To this end, they follow a tortuous path through the intimacy of their own souls, driven by desire. The Lord may not be the easiest of lovers, but this does not prevent them from longing for Him. In fact, his perceived absence, physical and even mental, makes their love burn all the fiercer. And this burning love is far from thoughtless. The difficulty of loving God is precisely one of the main reasons why mystics have always felt the need to reflect profoundly upon their relationship with Him. The mystical canon testifies in various ways to its authors’ extensive and diversified thinking on their intense spiritual love lives. And these reflections all have their elaborate, subtle theories of love. It is from this perspective that the contributions to this volume approach several important works in the Christian mystical tradition, from the Seven Ways of Minne by Beatrice of Nazareth, via Novalis’s Hymns to the Night, to the Prologue by Simone Weil. These writings are examined for their specific theoretical schemes and backgrounds. At the same time, the question is also dealt with how the theory and the experience of love relate to one another in these texts. Investigations of the reflections on this topic by modern thinkers like Jean-Paul Sartre and Michel Foucault round off this exploration of mysticism and its love theories.
£89.10
Peeters Publishers Buddhism and Daoism on the Holy Mountains of China
This volume sheds new light on the matter of religious mountain culture in China – a theme of great relevance to the Chinese civilization. Already during the Chinese antiquity, mountains had specific ritual functions. This may be seen as a precursor to the importance mountains gained when in medieval China Buddhism and Daoism emerged as dominant religions. Adepts of both religions often went into retreat on mountains to practice spirituality, and as a result monastic communities often formed on mountains. In the further course, certain mountains began to attract pilgrims, since they were associated with famous practitioners who had lived there, or since they were seen as the seat of particular Buddhist or Daoist deities. As it would be impossible to cover this wide field in total, the present volume is designed to offer specialized studies of selected segments. Contributing scholars include Bart Dessein, Susan Andrews, Huang Chi-chiang, Timothy Wai Keung Chan, Thomas Jülch, Stephen Eskildsen, Jan de Meyer, and Louis Komjathy.
£172.92
Peeters Publishers Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Phoenician Culture II.1: Religion - Deities and Mythical Characters
The Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Phoenician Culture (EDPC) is the result of a wide-ranging international project and is intended to be an in-depth and up-to-date standard reference work for Phoenician studies. It is a series in the form of an encyclopaedia with the structure of a dictionary, comprising about 2000 entries, written by circa 200 contributors from 20 different countries. Current knowledge on Phoenicians and Carthaginians (with close attention to their various interactions with other cultures) will be presented as a sequence of themed volumes, all closely interrelated, dealing respectively with history, religion, language and written sources, socio-economic life, and archaeological sites of both the Levant and the Central and Western Mediterranean. As part of a collection, each volume should be considered as belonging to a set: in one sense independent but at the same time inseparable from the others both in respect of the amount of information included and the network of cross-references linking the various lemmata. The present volume (EDPC II.1), which is exclusively on deities and mythical characters, is a specialised compendium of the divine and mythological figures who feature in Phoenician and Punic documents as well as in indirect sources. Like the thematic volumes to follow, this volume is a reference work: it is based on a piece by piece reconstruction of the entire Phoenician and Punic ‘religious’ universe through its various protagonists. A second volume on religious practices – Cult and Ritual (EDPC II.2) – is in preparation, and the two volumes are to be considered as closely connected, as they examine this cultural dimension from different but intrinsically correlated and complementary points of view.
£172.65
Peeters Publishers Religion, Violence, and Peacebuilding. Religions, violence et construction de la paix: Realities, Perspectives, and Prospects. Contextes, regards et perspectives
This book is the outcome of a major conference held by Omnes Gentes on the thematic religion, violence, and peacebuilding, celebrating the 100 years of the publication of Quod Iam Diu, the Encyclical of Pope Benedict XV “On the Future Peace Conference” issued on 1st December, 1918. Authors from all continents have provided articles from their field of research and their context to illustrate the importance of religious insights and actions to promote peace in difficult times. Academics, ecclesiastical leaders, pastoral workers, and researchers from around the world, who are involved directly in the work of peacebuilding, shed light on specific contexts, historical perspective and actions, as well as inspiring prospects for the future. Omnes Gentes is a collaboration of the Faculties of Theology of KU Leuven and UCLouvain, Lumen Vitae, and Missio-Belgium. Ce livre est le fruit d’une conférence Omnes Gentes qui a rassemblé des académiques, des évêques et des chercheurs de tous les continents autour d’une thématique d’importance: la violence, les religions et l’édification de la paix, commémorant de la sorte les cent ans de la publication de Quod Iam Diu, l’encyclique de Benoît XV publiée en 1918. Les contributions de cet ouvrage s’enracinent dans des contextes troublés pour illustrer le rôle majeur des religions dans la promotion de la paix en des temps difficiles. Omnes Gentes associe les Facultés de Théologie de la KU Leuven et de l’UCLouvain, le centre Lumen Vitae et Missio-Belgique, afin de promouvoir la recherche et les publications dans le domaine de l’évangélisation, avec une attention spécifique au dialogue entre le Sud et le Nord.
£84.60
Peeters Publishers Selected Studies on Deuterocanonical Prayers
The study of the Septuagint (LXX), specifically the deuterocanonical books, and early Jewish prayers have gained attention in recent years. The eleven essays in this volume offer various exegetical or theological insights into select prayers known from the deuterocanonical books. Authors discuss how prayers interact with their larger literary contexts and raise text-critical questions that compare different ancient versions of various prayers. Larger questions of theological interest, such as the role prayers played in moral formation, are also treated among the essays. Most of the contributions in this volume grew out of a collaboration between the Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature and Prayer in Antiquity program units of the Society of Biblical Literature in 2018.
£85.10
Peeters Publishers 'Abdisho' bar Brika, Das Buch vom 'Paradies von Eden'
'Abdisho bar Brīka begann sein Werk Paradies von Eden 1290/91 n. Chr. und beendete es im Jahr 1316. Das Werk ist in zwei Teile mit je 25 Mēmrē gegliedert. Der erste Teil wurde nach Henoch, der zweite nach Eliya benannt. 'Abdisho's Paradies blieb ein Unikat. Seine Überlieferung zeigt aber insbesondere ab dem 16. Jh. einen sehr hohen Grad an schriftlicher Rezeption. 'Abdisho's Kunstfertigkeit besteht darin, die besondere Form der Maqamen in einen anderen Kulturkreis zu überführen. Die vorliegende Studie beleuchtet mit der Untersuchung und Einbringung 'Abdisho's Werk als eine syrisch-christliche Maqame in den wissenschaftlichen Diskurs einen neuen Aspekt in der Entwicklung des über zahlreiche nahöstliche Literaturen verbreiteten Maqamen-Genres. Weder in der Maqamenforschung noch in der syrischen Literatur war bisher die Existenz der syrisch-christlichen Maqamen bekannt, die sich als unterprivilegiertes Literaturgenre in verschiedenen Zeitaltern entwickelt haben. Hier liegt nun die Erstedition des Paradieses von Eden anhand der bisher unveröffentlichten Handschriften sowie die erste vollständige deutsche Übersetzung des Werks vor.
£284.96
Peeters Publishers Wadi Khashab: Unearthing Late Prehistory in the Eastern Desert of Egypt
The 5th millennium BC megalithic ceremonial complex at Wadi Khashab in the Eastern Desert of Egypt is located almost directly in the middle of the Eastern Desert, on a wadi trail connecting the Valley of the Nile with the Red Sea. The volume presents the results of three seasons of excavation of this site, which featured a human burial in the center of several burials of cattle and sheep, within an enclosure of upright stone slabs that must have formed an eye-catching landmark for many miles up and down the wadi, also for the pastoral communities traversing the mountains in later times. The study of the animal remains from this remote site in the poorly known Eastern Desert has provided a very well documented series of osteological, osteometric and archaeozoological data on early cattle and sheep. It adds to the current knowledge of cattle domestication in the Neolithic and early cattle mobility in northeastern Africa, offering unique information on the uses of domestic livestock not only in the funerary traditions, but also in mobility systems. It also contributes to the discussion on the origins and domestication of the auroch in Africa, pointing to a local African origin for the cattle.
£169.91
Peeters Publishers Cosmo-esthétique: Nature et humanité dans la philosophie de Mikel Dufrenne
L’expérience esthétique est la voie de la phénoménologie ; c’est du moins ce qu’établit Dufrenne avec une profondeur inégalée. Cette expérience est décrite de façon novatrice selon une phénoménologie du sentiment, qui est le fil conducteur de cette philosophie. La réduction – devenue dès lors réduction esthétique – conduit à l’essence de la manifestation et se prolonge en une réduction cosmologique : le monde se trouve conquis en sa figure originaire, la Nature, qui est pensée comme source ou matrice universelle. L’esthétique enveloppe en outre une réflexion sur l’imagination, l’image et l’imaginaire, comme sur la beauté, marquant l’une des originalités de la perspective dufrennienne. Les percées ontologiques réalisées débouchent alors sur une cosmo-esthétique qui se prolonge en une cosmopoétique. Il s’agit à la fois de concevoir l’appartenance de l’homme au monde, qui le précède et l’excède, ainsi que la différence subjective, puisqu’il est capable de le percevoir. Cette philosophie définit la Nature comme Infini expressif – esthétique et poétique –, et montre que l’homme est appelé à vivre poétiquement, les exigences éthiques et politiques étant nouées à l’esthétique, où le sens de l’humain s’atteste.
£96.63
Peeters Publishers A Late Christian Pilgrimage Centre in Nubia: The Evidence of Wall Inscriptions in the Upper Church at Banganarti
The book is a publication of nearly one thousand wall inscriptions preserved in the so-called Upper Church at Banganarti (Sudanese Nubia), discovered by a Polish expedition between 2001 and 2006. In overwhelming majority, the inscriptions are mementos left by people who visited this cult place to pay homage to its patron, Archangel Raphael, and to ask him or God through his intermediary for various benefactions. Written in either Greek or Old Nubian, and frequently displaying a sophisticated graphic and literary form, they cast an interesting light on different aspects of social, cultural, and religious life of the Christian Nubian Kingdom of Makuria towards the end of its existence (twelfth-fourteenth centuries). The catalogue of inscriptions is complemented by a study addressing general questions provoked by the texts. The book is richly illustrated with plans, photographs and drawings.
£181.74
Peeters Publishers Les délimitations éditoriales des Écritures des bibles anciennes aux lectures modernes: Editorial Delimitations of the Scriptures from Ancient Bibles to Modern Readings
From time immemorial scribes provided their manuscripts with visual markings guiding the reader to the interpretation they deemed correct. Colour, punctuation and empty spaces were their first distinctive layout markers. Later on elaborate ornaments, capitals and headers adorned the beginning of books, chapters and paragraphs. All these helpful pointers are also present in manuscripts and prints of the Bible. Their influence is evident in the reception history of the Scriptures as codified in translations and commentaries. Strangely enough, however, they are almost totally ignored in modern biblical scholarship. To remedy this gap Pericope series was started twenty years ago. The present volume provides insight in what has been achieved in the relatively young discipline of delimitation criticism up till now. Through a dozen contributions, the biblical and patristic corpuses are investigated in several directions: How were the texts delimited in Antiquity? What intentions can be discerned behind delimitations in Hebrew, Greek, Latin and Syriac Bibles? What transformation of meaning do the divisions of textual units bring about in certain modern translations compared to ancient documents? What are the nature and signification of the divisions and titles in the Psalms, Greek and Syriac? How did some Greek authors refer to a specific biblical text? What can we learn from the Greek "synopses"? And what profit for this kind of research has a digital tool like Biblindex to offer? These are, without a doubt, the first milestones for new investigations to come.
£119.41
Peeters Publishers Gender, Race, Religion: De/constructing Regimes of In/visibility
The ESWTR conference in Leuven in 2019 dealt with the intersection of gender, race, and religion and asked for the de-/construction of regimes of visibility and invisibility. By discussing these three concepts in relationship to each other, underlying patterns of privilege and oppression in a society can be uncovered. The concepts “gender, race, and religion” are not static ideas, but processes in society. They are constructed in social interaction, through discourses and practices—what implies that their meaning can also be deconstructed. The construction is the result of power processes. These create what is considered an appropriate way to express one’s religion, what should be visible and what not, although very often the processes of “religionization” and “racialization” remain hidden, sometimes concealed by so-called good intentions. What is made visible and invisible is the result of choices that serve particular interests. In malestream theology this is a blind spot. However, there are many theological themes at stake here. The question is how theologians can help to make the underlying patterns and processes of “genderisation,” and “religionization” (more) visible in order to contribute to the flourishing of everyone and to more justice in society. This is what the contributions of this volume try to do, in their analysis of the intersection of gender and religion (and race) in different contexts.
£68.96
Peeters Publishers The Ikun-pisa Letter Archive from Tell ed-Der: IPLA
This volume sees the publication of fifty-six early Old Babylonian letters from ca. 1880 BCE. They were found by legendary Iraqi archaeologist Taha Baqir in 1941 at the site of Tell ed-Der, ancient Sippar-Amnanum, in central Iraq. The letters are written in an early dialect of Akkadian and are part of the archives of an ancient firm. This firm consisted of a number of families engaged in local agriculture, the manufacturing of textiles, crediting, and international trade. As such it was part of the same larger trade networks as those already known from the contemporary Old Assyrian archives found in central Turkey. The firm strived to have good relations with local Amorite rulers, such as Sumu-la-El, the first king of Babylon, and they used their own trading agents to represent them in far-away cities such as Mari. For these reasons, the letters are also an important source for Babylonia’s political and socio-economic history.
£106.81
Peeters Publishers Rethinking the Jewish War: Archeology, Society, Traditions
This interdisciplinary collection of fifteen papers probes key aspects of the First Jewish Revolt from a wide variety of perspectives: archeology, Roman military, administration, and ethos, Second Temple Jewish society, and rabbinic and early Christian reception. Delivered at a large international conference organized at the École biblique et archéologique française de Jérusalem in 2018, the contributions respond to many classic questions about the reliability of Josephus and interact in various ways with Steve Mason’s major study, A History of the Jewish War (Cambridge, 2016), including his controversial views on the scope and religious nature of the conflict. Mason’s own response comprises the final chapter.
£114.14
Peeters Publishers Némesis: modelo de justicia de Mary Daly
Mary Daly muestra una ética feminista de la justicia basada en la imagen de la diosa griega Némesis. Su propuesta implica un avance para el feminismo respecto a la ética tradicional y feminista, ya que su interpretación del modelo ético de Némesis conecta la metafísica y la lingüística. La pensadora recurre también a la teoría ética aristotélica, en contraste con las fuentes modernas de la ética del cuidado (Carol Gilligan) y la ética de la representación (Nancy Fraser). La filósofa y teóloga estadounidense fallecida en 2010 es conocida como una feminista radical poscristiana, pero sus obras apenas han sido investigadas en contextos españoles o traducidas al español. El libro ofrece el acercamiento al pensamiento de la pionera en la teología y ética feministas cuyas intuiciones se hacen eco en su vida e inspiran a las mujeres del siglo XXI a seguir transformando el mundo hacia la justicia- Némesis.
£49.89
Peeters Publishers Durandi de Sancto Porciano Scriptum super IV libros Sententiarum. Distinctiones 20-25 libri Quarti
Der Sentenzenkommentar des Durandus von St. Pourçain nimmt, was seine Originalität und seine Bedeutung für die philosophische und theologische Mediävistik angeht, eine herausragende Stellung unter den Sentenzenkommentaren des 14. Jahrhunderts ein. Zum einen ist er ein einzigartiges Dokument für die Debatten vor allem innerhalb des Dominikanerordens um die Bedeutung des Thomas von Aquin und die Verbindlichkeit seiner Lehrmeinungen für den Orden. Zum anderen steht der Sentenzenkommentar des Durandus für die wachsende Bedeutung, die dieses Genre am Ende des 13. und zu Beginn des 14. Jahrhunderts wiedererlangt. Von einem Pflichtstück am Beginn der akademischen Karriere wie etwa bei Thomas von Aquin wird der Sentenzenkommentar nun zu einer wichtigen Schriftgattung eines Magisters der Theologie, die ihn seine ganze akademische Karriere über begleitet. Buch IV, Distinktionen 20-25 In diesem Band diskutiert Durandus spezielle Aspekte des Bußsakraments, die Ablassthematik, die letzte Ölung und das Weihesakrament, einschließlich der Bischofsweihe. Bei der Abhandlung dieser Themen bewegt sich Durandus zwischen den vorherrschenden Lehrmeinungen seiner Zeit und unkonventionellen Positionen. Insbesondere mit den Ansichten des Thomas von Aquin setzt sich Durandus intensiv und kritisch auseinander. In einigen Abschnitten des hier edierten Teils lassen sich die ersten beiden Fassungen des Sentenzenkommentars (A und B) unterscheiden.
£113.49
Peeters Publishers Le rire des sages: L'humour dans la Mishna et la Tosefta
Le judaïsme rabbinique a pu notamment s'imposer en tant qu'orthodoxie grâce à son importante production littéraire. Si les rabbins de l'antiquité ne cherchent pas à faire rire dans leurs textes, leur sens de l'humour ne passe pas inaperçu. Bien que préoccupés principalement par la halakha, les tanna'im n'avaient pas moins d'humour que leurs successeurs, les amora'im. L'étude exhaustive des récits humoristiques dans la Mishna et la Tosefta permet de développer de nouvelles perspectives sur ces textes (parfois énigmatiques) et leurs protagonistes, tout particulièrement sur les polémiques internes et externes au mouvement rabbinique, les traits de caractère de certains sages et leur manière d'étudier et de penser, ainsi que l'évolution de l'humour entre les différents corpus rabbiniques (Talmud compris). L'humour juif trouve donc probablement ses premières manifestations dans l'humour complexe et varié des tanna'im.
£114.45
Peeters Publishers La topographie de la Jérusalem antique: Essais sur l'urbanisme fossile, défenses et portes. IIe s. av. - IIe s. ap. J.-C.
Jérusalem eut histoire mouvementée et une évolution urbaine décrites par les historiens de l’Antiquité. Depuis 130 ans on a cherché à retracer les remparts, à comprendre les sièges, à restituer les grands édifices, à décrypter son urbanisme. Avec leurs regards croisés, on devinait les illustres monuments disparus : le temple d’Hérode, le temple capitolin d’Hadrien, la longue basilique chrétienne de Justinien. Ils n’avaient sous la main que le mur du Temple, le Saint-Sépulcre, le Dôme de la Roche. Ils ont sans relâche scruté Jérusalem, avec compétence et passion qui font toujours autorité, on croyait la connaître. Aujourd’hui elle est devenue un sujet qui suscite la curiosité du monde entier. Les recherches interdisciplinaires qui se multiplient apportent chaque jour de nouveaux documents. Les vieilles cartes, le potentiel de la photographie d’avant 1914 qui sort des tiroirs, la mise à disposition des technologies nouvelles comme la photographie satellitaire, le traitement des données sur ordinateur bouleversent les méthodes d’investigation. L’auteur a pris la ville à bras-le corps, dans toute sa complexité. En apprenant d’abord l’acquis accumulé avec un respect qui est dû, c’est avec une formation d’ingénieur qu’il a mené l’enquête. La méthode qui diffère l’a mené à des intuitions nouvelles. Habitant sur place et au fil des ans arpentant les rues et les ruelles, les endroits secrets, les places comme les arrière-cours il a cherché à vérifier ses intuitions un crayon en main, un décamètre et une machine à calculer. La géométrie des grands travaux dans les quartiers des princes hasmonéens, puis ceux d’Hérode, l’ampleur de l’Aelia Capitolina d’Hadrien lui sont apparues par transparence, transformées par le temps mais dont l’organisation demeure. Le croisement des axes urbains atteste la marque de leurs idéologies. L’emplacement des grandes constructions a laissé l’empreinte de leurs politiques ou de leurs propagandes concurrentes. L’auteur bouleverse la vision de la Jérusalem antique. Son habileté d’horloger excelle à décrire les grilles d’urbanisme et à placer les unes par rapport aux autres. On le suit avec une curiosité accrue au fil de la lecture. Les quartiers ont été fondés par les rois hasmonéens au IIe s. av. J-C et la place de la Porte de Damas s’ouvre en agora. Au nord du Temple, Hérode lotit un quartier pour y mettre un théâtre et son quadriportique. L’arc de l’Ecce Homo redevient une porte hérodienne percée dans le Deuxième mur de la ville. L’ambitieux petit-fils Hérode Agrippa déploie la ville au nord et le Tombeau des Rois y trouve sa place. Tout a été remanié après la destruction du Temple pour l’implantation intra-muros de la Dixième Legio Fretensis. Jérusalem a été embellie par Hadrien qui en fit une colonie romaine pour y célébrer son propre culte et celui de Jupiter, en place du Sépulcre, et sur une plate-forme sacrée de l’ancien Temple juif a trôné la statue équestre d’Hadrien. Le bilan de ces travaux est une recherche audacieuse. Elle ravive un débat qui s’annonce fécond.
£115.91
Peeters Publishers Unlocking the Future: Women and the Diaconate
This book discusses from various angels the position of women in the Roman Catholic Church more specifically with regard to the diaconate. Theological, historical, pastoral, canonical and legal considerations are taken into account. The book makes clear that the old discussion is also lively today as only the ordination of women to the priesthood is currently closed for further debate. The thoughts developed in this book are certainly not exhaustive, nor do they all go into the same direction. Yet they can offer stepping stones to a future witch may do right thoroughly to the Church, to women and to the wellbeing of all Christian faithful.
£54.89
Peeters Publishers Moral Realism and the Existence of God: Improving Parfit's Metaethics
Can there be an objective morality without God? Derek Parfit argues that it can and offers a theory of morality that is neither theistic nor naturalistic. This book provides a critical assessment of Parfit's metaethical theory. Jakobsen identifies some problems in Parfit’s theory – problems concerning moral normativity, the ontological status of morality, and evolutionary influence on our moral beliefs – and argues that theological resources can help solve them. By showing how Parfit’s theory may be improved by the help of theology, Jakobsen demonstrates the relevance of theology in philosophical and metaethical debates and argues that Christian theism offers a better explanation of morality than what Parfit’s non-naturalism does.
£90.95
Peeters Publishers The Patristic "Masora": A Study of Patristic Collections in Syriac Handbooks from the Near East
Though fairly distinct among Syriac manuscripts, the nearly twenty exemplars of the so-called Syriac “Masora” remain relatively unknown and often misunderstood. These handbooks were developed to help the reader pronounce, interpret, and compare words from across a spectrum of different sources: including works of patristics, theology, liturgy, and the Bible. Because earlier studies of this genre have focused, almost exclusively, on the biblical portions of these manuscripts, little has been known about the collections of excerpts from 255 patristic-era writings included in many of these handbooks. This volume is the first-ever study and transcription of over ten thousand excerpted ‘vocalized words and readings’ (šmohē w-qroyoto) from works attributed to Greek writers such as Ps.-Dionysius, Basil, Gregory of Nazianzus, and Severus of Antioch. This material has the potential to inform not only Syriac studies and Patristics, but the broader study of literacy and modes of learning in the Medieval Middle East.
£163.00
Peeters Publishers Why Read the Bible in the Original Languages?
A comparison of multiple translations of the Bible in any language shows that they differ at hundreds of places, pointing to the continuing disagreement among Bible scholars and translators in their analysis and understanding of those places. To learn Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, the original languages of the Bible, is admittedly not everybody’s cup of tea. Knowledge of them does not necessarily provide a solution to these difficulties. However, there are not a few things in the biblical text which can be missed out if it is read only in translation. A range of linguistic issues touching on the three original languages are discussed in the light of actual examples. Matters of culture and rhetoric are also taken up. A special chapter is devoted to the Septuagint as a bridge between the two Testaments. The book is written in a non-technical style, hence easily readable by non-specialists, but specialists may also find things of interest. No Hebrew or Greek alphabet is used.
£28.67
Peeters Publishers Neôteros: Studies in Bronze Age Aegean Art and Archaeology in Honor of Professor John G. Younger on the Occasion of his Retirement
Beginning his academic career in Classical Studies, John G. Younger rapidly extended his expertise into prehistoric (Bronze Age) Aegean archaeology, art and architecture, with a particular focus on ancient stone-working... and from this interest came his seminal studies on the iconography of Bronze Age Aegean stone seals, a field on which he has made an indelible mark. He also branched out into Jewish Studies, becoming an expert on early synagogues. His lifelong activism for LGBTQI+ and minority rights, and his early embrace of feminism and the crucial role that women have played in the past (not just in archaeology, but in the ancient world itself) have also informed his teaching and studies regarding ancient and modern notions about gender and sexuality, and these studies have greatly enriched our views of the ancient world, while going a long way toward counteracting the persistently male-centric interpretations of the ancient world characteristic of the past few centuries. He has been a pioneer in the establishment of LGBTQI+ academic programs in the U.S., and in the integration of modern technologies (especially computers) into Classics and archaeology. He has established himself as an international authority on Linear A, the undeciphered writing system of the Minoans; his website containing the corpus of that script is second to none in terms of its value to scholars working on Linear A. His recent and continuing investigations into the identification of prehistoric Aegean myths promises to add yet another facet to what is already a brilliant diamond of a career.
£148.14
Peeters Publishers La figure biblique du juste et ses enjeux théologiques dans le Nouveau Testament
Les textes bibliques renvoient régulièrement à la figure du juste, sans pour autant la caractériser, ni la définir. À l’évidence, il ne s’agit pas d’une figure homogène et les portraits qu’elle décline varient suivant les contextes. Ce collectif s’attache à en préciser quelques contours et les enjeux théologiques qu’elle recouvre, en particulier dans le Nouveau Testament et certains écrits issus de la littérature connexe. Le parcours effectué dans les différents corpus montre que la figure du juste s’inscrit dans l’attente d’une justice divine déployée dans une histoire du salut où aussi bien des personnalités singulières – Jésus, le Maître de justice – que des figures collectives jouent un rôle majeur. Derrière ces figures, souvent idéalisées, se dessinent des contextes historiques où la cause du juste se heurte à un environnement – communautaire, social ou politique – qui suit ses exigences propres en matière de justice, faisant parfois du juste une figure tragique qui inspirera les générations futures.
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Peeters Publishers No Power over God's Bounty: A Christian Commentary on the "People of Scripture" in the Qur'an
The Qur’an often addresses Jews and Christians as “People of Scripture” to indicate that they have received revelation from God. Yet, while acknowledging the special relationship and knowledge that this revelation brings, the Qur’an at the same time criticizes the People of Scripture for not remaining true to God’s guidance and claiming special power over God’s gifts. The mixture of acknowledgment and criticism is based on actual encounters with Jews and Christians at the time of the revelation of the Qur’an. This Christian commentary on the 31 texts in which the Qur’an discusses and addresses the People of Scripture includes the Muslim tradition of interpretation of these texts and adds Christian resonances in order to contribute to future dialogue between Muslims and Christians on the common heritage and the differences between them.
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Peeters Publishers Studia Patristica. Vol. CII - Including Papers Presented at the Seventh British Patristics Conference, Cardiff, 5-7 September 2018
This volume contains fifteen papers presented at the seventh British Patristics Conference, held in Cardiff (Wales, UK) from 5 to 7 September 2018. The theme of the conference was Religion in Late Antiquity. The papers address topics such as transformation and innovation, interrelations between religions, and between religions and other areas of culture: philosophy, education, politics and science. Some deal with aspects of the pre-history of religion in late antiquity, others with the reception of late-antique religion in later periods of history. Consequently, alongside papers that treat more ‘traditional’ topics of Patristic Studies there are papers applying approaches and methodologies such as identity formation and reception theory. The volume thus offers a cross section of topics related to religion in late antiquity from the second to the thirteenth century and reflects the current state of research in this wide field. The papers are grouped in four sections, I. Ancient Philosophy, Early Christianity and Judaism; II. Christianity in its Cultural Context from the Second to the Fourth Century; III. Augustine and His Age; IV. The End of Antiquity and Beyond. Part I contains papers by Ilaria Ramelli, who compares pagan and Christians concepts of the ‘Logos/Nous One-Many’ in pagan and Christian philosophers of the second to fourth century, David Lloyd Dusenbury, who explores the concept of the World City in the thought of Nemesius of Emesa, and Susanna Towers, who compares the ‘Demoness’ found in eastern Manichaean texts with the pre-Rabbinic Jewish concept of Yetzer Hara. Part II begins with a paper by Josef Lössl on the juxtaposition of Greek and Barbarian Paideia in Tatian’s Ad Graecos. This is followed by a new discussion of the Cento attributed to Faltona Betitia Proba, in which Nicholas Baker-Brian situates the work firmly in the reign of Julian the Apostate and understands its criticism of Constantius II in this context. A third paper, by Zachary Esterson, compares the oeuvres of Victorinus of Pettau and Fortunatianus of Aquileia. A fourth, by James Wellington, offers a new, ontological, reading of Gregory of Nyssa’s refutation of slavery in In Ecclesiasten Homiliae IV; and in a final piece entitled ‘A Tale of Two Councils’, Sara Parvis compares the two Councils of Constantinople of 360 and 381. With Augustine, Part III moves from the fourth to the fifth century. In it, Philip Brown shows how Augustine’s sixth tractate on John contains an emerging ‘theology of friendship’. Georgiana Huian explores notions of ‘Deification’ in Sermo 23B (Mainz 13) also known as ‘Sermo Dolbeau 6’. Math Osseforth studies an example of intertextuality in the Confessions, the Vergilian concept of the Underworld. Marcin Wysocki compares strategies of survival in apocalyptic times in late-antique letter collections (Paulinus of Nola, Augustine, Jerome). Part IV contains papers from ‘the end of antiquity and beyond’. Georgios Siskos writes on Maximus the Confessor’s critique of Monothelitism, Michael Muthreich on an excerpt of Epistle VIII of the Dionysian corpus in Syriac, Helen Dayton on Nikitas Stithatos main work, 300 Kephalaia, and Andrej Kutarna on Theosis in John of Damascus and Thomas Aquinas.
£144.00
Peeters Publishers Égypte antérieure: Mélanges de préhistoire et d'archéologie offerts à Béatrix Midant-Reynes par ses étudiants, collègues et amis
Cet ouvrage se veut un hommage à Béatrix Midant-Reynes, dont la longue carrière de lithicienne, d’archéologue et d’égyptologue est intimement liée à l’Égypte des origines, même si ses travaux couvrent un large éventail de disciplines. Béatrix Midant-Reynes est une figure majeure des études concernant la préhistoire égyptienne et la période prédynastique. Son oeuvre a une influence considérable tant pour les nouvelles théories qu’elle a posées concernant la constitution des premières sociétés nilotiques et l’émergence de l’État en Égypte, que des techniques de fouille ou d’analyse du matériel archéologique. Ce volume de mélanges propose 35 contributions, rédigées en français et en anglais, dues à des universitaires, des chercheurs et des conservateurs de musée. Les thèmes abordés, tous chers à leur dédicataire, illustrent la curiosité intellectuelle et les centres d’intérêt de Béatrix Midant-Reynes: la chronologie, le néolithique des déserts, le matériel lithique, les relations entre l’Égypte et le Proche-Orient, le sacrifice humain, l’habitat, le site d’Adaïma, le Delta du Nil, la culture matérielle, l’anthropologie de terrain, les premières dynasties égyptiennes, etc. This book is a tribute to Béatrix Midant-Reynes, whose long career as a lithic specialist, archaeologist, and Egyptologist is intimately linked to early Egypt, even though her work covers a wide range of disciplines. Béatrix Midant-Reynes is a major scholarly figure in the study of Egyptian prehistory and the Predynastic period. Her work has had a considerable influence in the new theories she has proposed concerning the constitution of the first Nilotic societies and the emergence of the State in Egypt, but also for the techniques of excavation and analysis of archaeological material she has introduced. This volume of essays offers 35 contributions, written in French and in English, by scholars, researchers, and museum curators. The variety of topics illustrates the intellectual curiosity and interests of Béatrix Midant-Reynes: chronology, the Neolithic of the deserts, lithic material, relations between Egypt and the Near East, human sacrifice, settlement archaeology, the site of Adaima, the Nile Delta, material culture, archaeothanatology, the first Egyptian dynasties, etc.
£236.29
Peeters Publishers Egypt at its Origins 6: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference "Origin of the State. Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt", Vienna, 10th - 15th September 2017
This volume represents the 6th installment of proceedings of the successful international conference series "Origin of the State. Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt", which this time was held at the University of Vienna in Austria from 10th to 15th of September 2017. With this new peer-reviewed volume of focused research on early Egypt, the 41 contributors dedicated their research to various questions surrounding prehistoric Egypt, the emergence of Pharaonic civilization and the territorial state. While some papers present new archaeological results from on-going excavations, others involve the analysis and interpretation of previously known evidence from the different regions along the Nile Valley. A large group of papers specifically discuss the area of ancient Memphis, which was also a central theme of the conference helping to summarize 20 years of research at the archaeological site of Helwan. Following the good tradition of previous Origins conferences, a very large number of papers are dedicated to the area of Lower Egypt and the Nile Delta from early prehistoric through to the early Old Kingdom periods. These papers highlight the significance and enormous progress of archaeological fieldwork in an area that was long considered an uninhabitable swampland in prehistoric times. Other papers report on new fieldwork at different sites in a largely unexplored region of the Egyptian Nile Valley – the Eastern Desert of Middle Egypt, where active mining on a very large scale has taken place raising questions about the organization and scale of such activities during the formative periods of Egyptian civilization. There are numerous contributions on archaeological evidence from sites in Upper Egypt and their material culture, many of which having been excavated long ago but offering the opportunity to raise new questions. Material culture from within and outside the Nile Valley, bioarchaeological data as well as modern theoretical approaches discussed in several papers, offer great potential for arriving at wider conclusions about specialized craft production, religious practice, interregional exchange, funerary cult, social organization, kingship, administration, state formation as well as music in early Egypt. This volume is yet another exciting collection of latest research on the origins of Pharaonic Egypt and a must-have for any scholar interested in the archaeology of early civilizations.
£219.25
Peeters Publishers Il libro del profeta Amos: Seconda edizione rivista
Questo commentario costituisce un’interpretazione sistematica e coerente dell’intero libro di Amos, fondata su rigorosi principi di composizione. A differenza dei commentari cosiddetti classici, che continuano a proporre letture frammentarie, basate su analisi di singoli versetti o, al massimo, di pericopi brevi e isolate, il presente commentario mostra come l’opera letteraria che porta il nome del profeta di Tekoa sia costruita organicamente; la sua comprensione necessita di conseguenza il confronto sistematico fra le sue diverse parti. Il lettore che avrà l’umile pazienza di seguire l’analisi della composizione retorica e di constatare le relazioni fra gli elementi testuali, sarà in grado di apprezzare la pertinenza, l’originalità e la verità dell’interpretazione delle singole pericopi e dell’intero libro. Osiamo così ritenere che questo nostro studio possa essere additato come un modello che incoraggi l’attenzione ermeneutica ai fenomeni di composizione letteraria semitica, quale indispensabile base per un’adeguata accoglienza della tradizione biblica. L’importanza letteraria di Amos, geniale inventore dei moduli espressivi profetici, e la rilevanza del tema della giustizia per il mondo contemporaneo contribuiscono a riproporre all’attenzione dei lettori questo gioiello della tradizione biblica.
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Peeters Publishers From Servant of YHWH to Being Considerate of the Wretched: The Figure David in the Reading Perspective of Psalms 35-41 MT
This study attempts an investigation of Psalms 35–41 in the Masoretic tradition from two viewpoints and in the wake of current research on the Psalter. Firstly, the common opinion that they form a sub-unit of their own within the structure of the first ‘book’ of the Psalter (Psalms 3–41) is verified on the basis of their concatenation and pragmatics. The deepened insight leads to the conclusion that the bundle consists of two clusters, Psalms 35–37 and Psalms 38–41, each of which deals with the question of how to understand God’s tolerance towards the wicked, and how readers, following in the psalmist’s footsteps, might live on with that knowledge. The two clusters also provide evidence of an advancing argument in two parallel moves that are covered by the book’s main title: ‘From Servant of YHWH to Being Considerate of the Wretched’. Secondly, the Davidisation of the psalmist throughout the whole bundle is examined, not insofar as it is limited to explicit references to the historical David (especially in psalm headings), but also by feasible, lexical (Hebrew) analogies with the vita David in 1-2 Samuel (with 1 Kings 2). In this way, intertextuality is envisaged as a literary process that is initiated by the author and can be continued by well-informed readers. The monograph’s subtitle renders this as ‘The Figure David in the Reading Perspective of Psalms 35–41 MT’.
£92.59
Peeters Publishers 'The Wings of the Spirit': Exploring Feminine Symbolism in Early Pneumatology: A Reassessment of a Key Metaphor in the Spiritual Teachings of the 'Macarian Homilies' in the Light of Early Syriac Christian Tradition
The book explores the rich symbolism of the Holy Spirit as a mother bird with hovering wings within early Syriac sacramental liturgies, proto-monastic rites of initiation, hymnody and teaching on prayer and spiritual states of inspiration and contemplation. The author traces these influences into the Greek writings of the Fourth Century Mesopotamian ascetic teacher and writer of the 'Macarian Homilies’. Macarian pneumatology was known to have influenced the Cappadocian brothers, Basil and Gregory, in the period leading up to the addition of the clause on the Holy Spirit to the Nicene Creed. By demonstrating a cultural and religious dialogue between the Cappadocians and Macarian and Syriac teaching on the Holy Spirit, Julie Hopkins challenges the current scholarship which claims that the Cappadocian appropriation of the “wings of the Spirit” metaphor derived from the Platonic “wings of the soul”. In her study, the agency and functions of the Syriac feminine Holy Spirit were appropriated by Gregory of Nyssa in his mystical writings as a powerful verbal ikon, even though the gender was lost in translation.
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Peeters Publishers Féminités hellénistiques: Voix, genre, représentations
Si le statut de la femme évolue de manière sensible entre l'époque classique et l'époque hellénistique, si certaines femmes jouent un rôle politique important, peut-on dire que dans l'univers poétique alexandrin la place de la femme se transforme ? Cette place de la femme dans la poésie alexandrine concerne les modalités de la prise de parole féminine et les conditions dans lesquelles un discours féminin est prononcé. Les 25 communications réunies ici s’interrogent sur la dimension politique du discours féminin, sur l’influence du statut familial des femmes dans leur prise de parole, sur la divinisation de la femme de pouvoir, sur la femme comme figure d’altérité, sur les intertextualités du discours féminin marqué par le souvenir de Sappho ou d’Érinna, sur les occupations et fonctions féminines et leurs valeurs symboliques pour dire notamment l’activité poétique assumée par les poétesses et sur l’utilisation du bi-culturalisme gréco-égyptien dans les représentations hellénistiques.
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Peeters Publishers Die sieben Sendschreiben Apk 2-3: Studien zu ihrer Entstehung und ihrem Verhältnis zum apokalyptischen Hauptteil Apk 4-22
In der vorliegenden Studie geht es um eine innerhalb der Forschung zur neutestamentlichen Johannesapokalypse durchaus zentrale und immer wieder aufgeworfene Frage, nämlich um die Frage des literarischen und das historischen Verhältnisses der Sendschreiben Apk 2f. zum apokalyptischen Hauptteil Apk 4–22. Basierend auf einer neu akzentuierten und inhaltlich zugespitzten Definition der Methode der Literarkritik werden vor allem die Texte der sieben Sendschreiben (Apk 2f.), zugleich aber auch die Darstellung der Berufung des Apokalyptikers (Apk 1,4–20) einer umfassenden literarkritischen Analyse unterzogen. Als Ergebnis wird die These zu erweisen gesucht, dass es sich bei den sieben Sendschreiben um ursprünglich münd-lich vorliegende und einzeln existierende ‚Manöverkritiken‘ zu den Verhältnissen in sieben christlichen Gemeinden handelt. Diese ‚Manöverkritiken‘ seien zunächst gesammelt, ergänzt und miteinander und mit der Berufungsvision Apk 1 zu dem Textblock Apk 1,4–3,20 ver-knüpft worden. Zu einem späteren Zeitpunkt habe der Apokalyptiker jenen dann mit dem apokalyptischen Hauptteil Apk 4–22 zusammengeschlossen, Motive aus dem apokalyptischen Hauptteil in den Text der sieben Sendschreiben eingefügt und auf diese Weise die im Neuen Testament vorliegende Johannesapokalypse geschaffen.
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Peeters Publishers Sabbath in the Making: A Study of the Inner-Biblical Interpretation of the Sabbath Commandment
The ancient institution of the Sabbath which has persisted throughout the centuries and to this very day defines the identity, religious and cultural practices of the Jewish community. This study aims to offer a more accurate description of the literary and redaction history of the Sabbath commandments in the Bible from the perspective of the inner-biblical interpretation, and to understand the theological and intellectual endeavour of scribes, who were responsible for the different redactional layers. Hence, the Sabbath commandments are presented against the time span of ‘exile and return’ spread over the Neo-Babylonian and Persian periods. In the final part, the Sabbath is discussed as identity marker: How did it function as identity marker, self-understanding and self-definition of the exiled Judean group? What was the role of the Sabbath day in the identity building strategies of the biblical authors in general? How is this perception reflected by the Sabbath commandments?
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Peeters Publishers La Bible en face: Études textuelles et littéraires offertes en hommage à Adrian Schenker, à l'occasion de ses quatre-vingts ans
Adrian Schenker a consacré plus de 50 ans à la recherche biblique. Bien que son champ de recherche soit vaste, il s’est surtout distingué dans le domaine de la critique textuelle et de l’histoire du texte de l’Ancien Testament. Pour stimuler la dynamique de dialogue, plusieurs contributions rassemblées dans ce volume entrent en discussion avec les prises de position que reflètent les nombreuses publications d’Adrian Schenker. Les auteurs discutent des principes régissant la critique textuelle et leur application dans les éditions de la Bible hébraïque. Ils abordent également la critique textuelle et littéraire de certains passages de la Bible, ainsi que des questions massorétiques et paléographiques. Comme c’est le cas pour de nombreuses études d’Adrian Schenker, ces contributions proposent de nouvelles intuitions, de nouvelles lectures et des solutions innovantes et stimulantes pour la recherche biblique.
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Peeters Publishers Aristote et l'âme humaine: Lectures de 'De anima' III offertes à Michel Crubellier
Le volume Aristote et l’âme humaine. Lectures de De Anima III offertes à Michel Crubellier, propose une lecture suivie, par de grands spécialistes de philosophie aristotélicienne, des treize chapitres qui composent le livre III du De Anima. Dans ce livre difficile, qui n’a cessé de nourrir les interprétations des commentateurs depuis l’Antiquité, la psychologie aristotélicienne, partant des facultés que l’âme humaine partage avec le reste des animaux, s’élève jusqu’aux fonctions cognitives par lesquelles l’homme, cette fois, s’en distingue. Les treize études de ce volume, en forme de commentaire du livre III du De Anima, nous invitent à entrer dans cette exploration aristotélicienne de l’âme humaine.
£101.71
Peeters Publishers Studia Patristica. Vol. C - Including Papers Presented at the Sixth British Patristics Conference, Birmingham, 5-7 September 2016
This one-hundredth volume of Studia Patristica includes papers from the Sixth British Patristics conference, held in Birmingham in September 2016. Thirty-seven contributions from an international range of scholars provide new studies of many of the major subjects in patristic studies, from Tertullian to Maximus the Confessor by way of Origen, John Chrysostom, Jerome and Augustine. One theme of the conference, which was held in conjunction with the European Research Council COMPAUL project, was the tradition and reception of the letters of the Apostle Paul. This is reflected in several papers, including an examination of patristic evidence for the authorship of Ephesians and an analysis of exegetical techniques employed in the Greek catena tradition on Galatians. Two longer contributions, by plenary speakers Frances Young and Jennifer Strawbridge, offer an extended consideration of the early Christian exegesis of particular Pauline Epistles.
£150.93
Peeters Publishers The Anthropological Turn, Christian Humanism, and Vatican II: Louvain Theologians Preparing the Path for 'Gaudium et spes' (1942-1965)
Quid est autem homo? What is the human person? This question, raised in paragraph twelve of Gaudium et spes, was addressed by both bishops and theologians throughout the redaction process of the Second Vatican Council’s Pastoral Constitution. This had been an open and contested question for many years before Vatican II was convened, and no definitive answer had been found by the time the council closed. This volume investigates how this question haunted theologians in the mid-twentieth century, and it focuses especially on Louvain theology. More particularly, its first chapter discusses the anthropological turn that occurred in twentieth-century theology and which was shaped by aspects of Christian humanism, the theology of history, theology of earthly realities, theology of society, and theology of the laity. The following four chapters sketch the intellectual itineraries of Albert Dondeyne, Gerard Philips, Gustave Thils, and Charles Moeller. These four Louvain theologians respectively developed a universal Christian humanism, an ecclesiology ad extra, an integrated Christian anthropology, and a humanism of the Beatitudes. The last three chapters analyze the reception of their thinking at the Second Vatican Council, focusing especially on the Pastoral Constitution Gaudium et spes. The text of Malines, a draft text written in 1963, is presented as a cornerstone of Louvain’s contribution to this anthropological turn.
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Peeters Publishers Catalogue of Coptic and Arabic Manuscripts in Dayr al-Suryan. Volume 2: Arabic Commentaries and Canons
A catalogue of the Coptic and Arabic collections at Dayr al-Suryan in Wadi al-Natrun, Egypt, to be published in multiple volumes, covering the following genre categories: Biblical Texts, along with Coptic Grammars and Lexica; Commentaries and Canons; Theology; Ascetic Discourses; Saints’ Lives and Sermons; and Liturgical Texts. In addition to introducing readers to the history and contents of the monastic library, this series collects data on approximately 1000 manuscripts, recording information on manuscript number and genre, works and contents, date, language, script, and material, scribes, patrons, and restorers, colophons and endowments, pages and numbering systems, dimensions, area of writing, and lines per page, cover and condition, and other details related to scribal practice and readers’ insertions. The result will serve as a foundation for further research on Coptic and Christian Arabic literature and on the monastery and its important library.
£138.00
Peeters Publishers Another Athanasius. Four Sahidic Homilies Attributed to Athanasius of Alexandria: Two Homilies on Michael the Archangel, the Homily on Luke 11:5-9 and the Homily on Pentecost: T.
Many Coptic literary texts are circulated under the name of Athanasius of Alexandria, the Alexandrian Archbishop and Theologian (ca. 296/298-2 May 373). Although there are strong evidences that most of these texts are falsely attributed to him, they are of extreme importance for the study of Coptic Christianity. The four homilies, edited and translated in this two volumes book, present 'Another Athanasius' to those who knew the history of their pseudo-Author. The homilies present Athanasius as a close friend of Pachomius, the Archimandrite of Upper Egypt (ca. 292-348). A visit of Pachomius to Alexandria is described in details. One homily relates about Athanasius' escape to Upper Egypt. Another homily contains fanciful acts of the Nicene council. The last homily presents Athanasius as a preacher while giving a long talk on the Christian household. This corpus of texts reveals the mental image of Athanasius in the Coptic mentality through centuries after his death.
£118.69
Peeters Publishers Orfèvres de l'ancien régime au poinçon de Bruxelles. Edelsmeden van het ancien régime met merken van Brussel
Ce livre de la main de Walter van Dievoet, auteur de plusieurs ouvrages sur les orfèvres des Pays-Bas méridionaux, vise à faciliter l’identification de leurs argenteries. De nombreuses photos de poinçons ont été réunies dans la mesure du possible grâce aux ouvrages d’argent se trouvant dans des musées, des églises, des couvents, et dans des collections des antiquaires et des personnes privées, dont l’anonymat a été respecté. Après l’introduction (I) le livre comprend une table des poinçons du métier de Bruxelles permettant en général de dater la pièce d’orfèvrerie (II), et une liste des orfèvres, si possible avec leur poinçon personnel, les données biographiques les plus importantes, et quelques ouvrages connus (III). Certains orfèvres d’autres villes, appelés maîtres subalternes, ont soumis leurs ouvrages pour contrôle au métier de Bruxelles entre 1750 et 1770-72. Comme leurs pièces portent alors des poinçons de Bruxelles, une confusion avec les orfèvres de cette dernière ville est possible. c’est la raison pour laquelle ils sont cités (IV). Un index des noms des orfèvres et un index de leurs poinçons terminent le livre (V). Dit boek, geschreven door Walter van Dievoet, auteur van meerdere werken over de edelsmeden in de Zuidelijke Nederlanden, heeft tot doel de identificatie van hun zilverwerk te vergemakkelijken. Er werden zoveel mogelijk foto’s van de merken van zilveren voorwerpen verzameld uit musea, kerken kloosters, en verzamelingen van antiquairs en privépersonen, van wie de anonimiteit gerespecteerd werd. Na de inleiding (I) bevat het boek een tabel van de merken van het ambacht van Brussel, waaruit meestal het jaartal kan worden afgeleid (II), en een tabel van de edelsmeden met, zo mogelijk, hun persoonlijk merk, de belangrijkste biografische gegevens, en enkele bekende werken (III). Sommige edelsmeden uit andere steden subalterne meesters genoemd, hebben tussen 1750 en 1770-72 bij het Brusselse ambacht hun werken laten keuren. Omdat die werken in dat geval Brusselse keurmerken dragen, is verwarring met Brusselse meesters mogelijk. Daarom worden ze vermeld (IV). Het boek wordt afgesloten met een index van de namen van de edelsmeden en een index van hun merken (V).
£88.72
Peeters Publishers Terror, Trump & Trauma
Socially and politically, many things have changed for women in recent years. A gender political "turn-back" is taking place. Power relations shift in micro- and macro-social areas. The election of Donald Trumps as US President – a women-disparaging man who presents a very flexible relationship not only to the reality of facts but also to the dignity of women – marks a strengthening of male-chauvinist power. Worldwide, women have been pushed back into pre-feminist places. The educated and experienced woman, who also stood for election, lost. She did not lose absolutely, but relatively. Her loss had been conditioned by the system of elections and she can easily be seen as a victim of established power structures. With her, women worldwide lost. At first glance, this seems to be very far from Europe and very placative, but it is not. Fine structures change. Realities shift. Facts lose weight. Post-factual arguments are blurring axioms of logic and science. Convictions are being based on opinions. Positions are becoming flexible. In the shifting of identity and virtuality, reality is being redefined. Feminism and Gender Studies are being defamed as ideology. Respect relativizes itself in the face of new social power relations and anonymous virtual possibilities. All of these put basic social values in question. Fundamentalism of all kinds gains space. Churches, synagogues and mosques thus become symbolic spaces of political power or powerlessness. The "European Society for Women in Theological Research" (ESWTR) dedicates its current journal to the theological reflections on religious experiences, social border-situations and traumatic events, which in Europe are not only symbolically linked to the last US presidential elections. With its deliberate interreligious and theological perspective, the journal aims to contribute to the public debate on political events in Europe.
£71.90
Peeters Publishers Greek Paideia and Local Tradition in the Graeco-Roman East
In the ancient Graeco-Roman East different types of interaction between Greek and local cultures took place. The present book investigates them from different viewpoints in their different manifestations (education, language, literature, etc.), and in different geographical areas: Egypt, Syria, Pontus Cappadocia, Propontis, Bithynia, Phrygia, Pisidia or the whole of Asia Minor. Did the Greek paideia intermingle with local traditions in the education of the local ruling classes? Did that have an impact on their prestige? Did this affect social classes? What were the extent and consequences of the linguistic contact between Greek and the local languages? Where there phenomena of Greek-local cultural translations or adaptations? What was the degree of penetration of the Greek literary models or topoi? How was the interaction of Greek paideia and the ancestral (local or regional) religions? What was the role of the Greek paideia as a signpost of identity? How did Greek and Latin coexist in this context? To answer such questions, the different papers in the current volume study each of them from a particular point of view, paying attention to the evidence available.
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Peeters Publishers Archéologie, patrimoine et archives: Les fouilles anciennes à Ras Shamra et à Minet el-Beida II
Le volume Ras Shamra – Ougarit XXVI est le second opus de l’opération Archéologie, patrimoine et archives, qui rassemblent des études portant plus spécifiquement sur l’exploitation scientifique des archives des fouilles anciennes de la Mission archéologique de Ras Shamra. L’ouvrage comporte quatorze articles auxquels ont contribué douze membres de la mission, rejoints par une collaboratrice extérieure. Ces recherches sont fondées sur l’édition d’une riche documentation pour une grande part inédite. Les fouilles conduites sous la direction de Claude Schaeffer sont de loin les mieux représentées et nombre de documents font partie du «Fonds C. Schaeffer» du Collège de France. D’autres fonds ont aussi été exploités parmi lesquels les sources documentaires gérées par la mission et les archives du Département des Antiquités orientales du musée du Louvre. Plusieurs études abordent l’histoire des recherches à Ras Shamra et à Minet el-Beida, avec des éclairages plus spécifiques sur le début des fouilles ou encore sur des pièces de la correspondance scientifique du fonds C. Schaeffer. D’autres articles analysent des témoins de la civilisation ougaritique, objets, inscriptions en louvite hiéroglyphique ou en hiéroglyphes égyptiens, productions locales ou importations datant en majorité de la période du Bronze récent. Ils livrent une documentation neuve sur des constructions, sur des objets inédits (poids, scarabée, bulle étiquette, harpè), apportent des données permettant une meilleure contextualisation de ces ÷uvres, ou sur d’autres déjà connues par les publications. Un troisième dossier, consacré aux études géographiques, livre la seconde contribution du programme en cours d’analyse diachronique des paysages (XVIIe–XXIe siècles), ainsi que trois nouvelles cartes numériques thématiques et une étude sur le climat de la région de Lattaquié.
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Peeters Publishers Lettres familières sur le roman du XVIIIe siècle: II. L'espace dialogique du roman
À un âge où les Lettres sont encore largement gouvernées par la Rhétorique, la narration fictionnelle se légitime par l’argument qu’elle véhicule. En interférant constamment avec les autres discours - philosophique, moral, théologique, esthétique … - qui composent le système discursif de l’époque, le roman ‘informe’ la narration d’un argument et propose à son lecteur différents contrats de lecture. Comme le savait déjà M. Bakhtine, le roman est en soi un massif stratifié et hétérogène de discours qui interagissent au sein d’une narration. Le roman fait dialoguer la partie avec le tout, le oui avec le non, le long avec le bref, le privé avec le public, le même avec l’autre, le présent avec l’absent, etc. Si le roman est en premier lieu un récit, la spécificité de la narration romanesque est d’être plurilingue, plurivocale et polémique. Le discours romanesques du XVIIIe apparaît dans ce volume comme un espace dialogique et un lieu d’interférence discursive où l’on peut prendre le pouls au temps.
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Peeters Publishers Lettres familières sur le roman du XVIIIe siècle: I. Providences romanesques
Ce volume rassemble une trentaine d’études sur la double signature du roman. Est-ce que l’histoire racontée dans un récit remonte à un livre composé d’avance ? Est-ce qu’une autre main que celle de l’auteur laisse des traces dans le texte ? Le roman d’Ancien Régime apparaît en effet comme un texte doublement `signé’ : par un écrivain-Dieu, le romancier, et par un Dieu-écrivain, auteur d’un Grand Rouleau écrit au Ciel. Le lecteur peut repérer dans le texte qu’il lit les traces de la main d’un écrivain-Dieu qui crée l’univers diégétique ; les personnages ne s’aperçoivent pas de ces traces, mais elles voient celles d’un autre créateur, qui est le Dieu-écrivain, dont ils croient qu’il règle leur Destin. Lecteur et personnages ne s’aperçoivent pas des mêmes signatures. Providence, Destin, Fortune, sort, libre arbitre, grâce divine, chance, hasard, occasion, … sont des idées qui contredisent le pouvoir du romancier dans la mesure où elles renvoient à l’existence d’un Dieu-écrivain qui compose non pas le livre que nous lisons, mais le Livre des Destinées. L’objet de ce volume est d’étudier comment, au Siècle des Lumières, les différents types de romans – picaresque, sentimental, libertin, etc. – et de contes – philosophique, moral, esthétique, etc. - gèrent cette situation de la double signature de l’÷uvre.
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Peeters Publishers Fouilles de Tel Yarmouth (1980-2009). Rapport final. Volume 1: Les fouilles sur l'acropole
Tel Yarmuth is a major archaeological site of the southern Levant, located 25 km south-west of Jerusalem. In the Early Bronze Age, it was the largest fortified city-state of this region. Long after its abandonment around 2400 BCE, it was reoccupied on the acropolis only, which remained settled more or less continuously from the Middle Bronze Age II (17th-16th cent. BCE) to the Early Byzantine Period (4th cent. CE). The site is identified with the biblical settlement of Yarmuth and the Byzantine village of Iermochos. This volume is the first monograph of the final publication of the excavations conducted between 1980 and 2009. It is devoted to the excavations on the acropolis where the entire settlement history of Yarmuth was established. It provides an account of those excavations, a detailed presentation of the stratigraphy, extensive descriptions of the pottery and the various archaeological artefacts and ecofacts, and a discussion of the archaeological and biblical contexts of the site’s history. The continuous archaeological sequence from the Late Bronze II to the end of the Iron Age I (c. 1200-950 BCE) is especially noteworthy. It illustrates the fate of a Canaanite village in the shadow of larger regional centers during the momentous centuries that witnessed the decline of the Canaanite polities, the rise of the Philistine city-states and the emergence of the kingdom of Judah.
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