Coping with Versnel: A Roundtable on Religion and Magic

In Honour of the 80th Birthday of Henk S. Versnel
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-53844-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 390 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 791 g

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Naerebout, Frits

Beerden, Kim

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte Religionen der Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Alternative Glaubensformen Okkultismus und andere religiöse Praktiken

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Introduction: An Inquiry into the Origin, Development and Meaning of Human Life

A Personal Account of the Scholarship of Henk Versnel

Frits G. Naerebout and Kim Beerden

Bibliography of H.S. Versnel

Part 1: Inconsistencies and Other Complexities

1 Cognitive Science of Religion and the Work of Henk Versnel

Ancient and Modern Scholars on Inconsistencies, from Aristotle to Versnel

Jennifer Larson

2 “One Must Not Ask Questions Such as These”

Casper C. de Jonge

3 Divine Metonymy: Theology and Rhetoric

Tim Whitmarsh

Part 2: Myth and Ritual

4 The History of Myth and Ritual

Robert A. Segal

5 Transitions, Reversals, Inconsistencies

H.S. Versnel on Myth and Ritual

Michael D. Konaris

Part 3: Magic, Prayers for Justice, and Emotion

6 The Typical and the Outlier in Ancient Greek Cursing

Prayers for Justice, Erotic Curses and other Important Categories

Chris A. Faraone

7 Ancient Magic in a New Key

Refining an Exotic Discipline in the History of Religions

David Frankfurter

8 My God! Religion as Emotional Experience in the Hellenistic World and the Roman East

Angelos Chaniotis

Part 4: Saving Death

9 Jesus Christus als neue Alkestis und neuer Kodros

Das Sterben „für“ andere Menschen bei Paulus und im paganen Kontext

Christina Eschner

Part 5: Henotheism

10 Henotheism, a ‘Consistent’ Category of Polytheism

Nicole Belayche

Epilogue

11 Foreword to an Afterword

Henk S. Versnel

12 Response

Henk S. Versnel

Bibliography

Index