Merkliste
Die Merkliste ist leer.
Der Warenkorb ist leer.
Bitte warten - die Druckansicht der Seite wird vorbereitet.
Der Druckdialog öffnet sich, sobald die Seite vollständig geladen wurde.
Sollte die Druckvorschau unvollständig sein, bitte schliessen und "Erneut drucken" wählen.
Eschatology in Antiquity
ISBN/GTIN

Eschatology in Antiquity

Forms and Functions
BuchKartoniert, Paperback
CHF78.00

Beschreibung

This collection of essays explores the rhetoric and practices surrounding views on life after death and the end of the world, including the fate of the individual, apocalyptic speculation and hope for cosmological renewal, in a wide range of societies from ancient Mesopotamia to the Byzantine era.
Weitere Beschreibungen

Details

ISBN/GTIN978-1-032-04305-0
ProduktartBuch
EinbandKartoniert, Paperback
ErscheinungslandVereinigtes Königreich
Erscheinungsdatum26.08.2024
Auflage1. A.
ReiheRewriting Antiquity
Seiten630 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 174 mm, Höhe 246 mm
Gewicht1210 g
IllustrationenFarb., s/w. Abb.
Artikel-Nr.32640138
KatalogBuchzentrum
Datenquelle-Nr.47060357
Weitere Details

Reihe

Autor

Hilary Marlow is Fellow, Director of Studies and Tutor at Girton College, Cambridge, UK, and teaches Hebrew Bible in the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge, UK. Her research interests include nature in the Hebrew Bible, ecology and the Bible and prophetic texts of the Hebrew Bible. She is author of Biblical Prophets and Contemporary Environmental Ethics (2009) and numerous articles and essays.

Karla Pollmann is Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Bristol, UK, and Professor of Classics and Theology. She is also an honorary member of the University of Aarhus, Denmark, and the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, and a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Green College, UBC, Vancouver, Canada. Her research interests span Classical and Late Antique literature and culture, and their reception. In 2020, she was awarded a Humboldt Research Prize in recognition of her internationally leading work. Major publications include The Oxford Guide to the Historical Reception of Augustine, 3 vols (2013) as Editor-in-Chief, and The Baptized Muse (2017).

Helen Van Noorden is Senior Lecturer in Classics and Wrigley Fellow at Girton College, Cambridge, UK, and in 2020-2022 is Associate Professor and AIAS-COFUND Fellow at the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Denmark. She is the author of Playing Hesiod: the Myth of the Races´ in Classical Antiquity (2015). Her current focus is a monograph study and translation of Books 3-5 of the Sibylline Oracles.