Buch, Französisch, Band 174, 626 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 1157 g
Présages, Rites, Destin Dans Les Sociétés de la Méditerranée Ancienne
Buch, Französisch, Band 174, 626 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 1157 g
Reihe: Religions in the Graeco-Roman World
ISBN: 978-90-04-20945-9
Verlag: Brill
How to foresee the unknown and master the unexpected? Ancient people tried to answer those questions by interpreting signs considered as divine messages. In this volume, the writers compare and examine this manifold questioning in the polytheistic and monotheistic societies of the ancient Mediterranean Sea. In the first place, it is shown how signs were ritually constructed within instituted practice of divination; second, how, although some spontaneous natural phenomena appeared out of any instituted context, may nevertheless constitute omens or monition; third, how the gods’ intervention may reveal a sort of intention in the course of national history or individual life; finally, the essays study the epistemology of signs at work in some philosophical or theological elaborations, which may enlighten the tension between oracular evidence and ritual control of signs, and between revealed facts and reasoning arguments intending to neutralize the injunctions of the divine.
Contributors include: Christophe Batsch, Nicole Belayche, Mohammed Hocine Benkheira, Laetitia Bernadet, François Bovon, Ileana Chirassi Colombo, Sabina Crippa, Jean-Jacques Glassner, Jean-Baptiste Gourinat, Dominique Jaillard, Emmanuel Jambon, Attilio Mastrocinque, Maria Patera, Jörg Rüpke, Christian Robin, Gaëlle Tallet, John Scheid, Madalina Vârtejanu-Joubert.
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Toute personne intéressée par l'histoire des idées, les religions et philosophies de l'Antiquité, le Proche-Orient et l'Égypte anciens, les études classiques et bibliques, le judaïsme du Second Temple, les origines du christianisme, les études sur le Moyen-Orient et sur l'Islam.
All those interested in History of Ideas, Ancient Religion and Philosophy, Ancient Near East and Egypt, Classical Studies, Biblical Studies, Second Temple Judaism, Christian Origins, Middle East and Islamic Studies.
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Contributors include: Christophe Batsch, Nicole Belayche, Mohammed Hocine Benkheira, Laetitia Bernadet, François Bovon, Ileana Chirassi Colombo, Sabina Crippa, Jean-Jacques Glassner, Jean-Baptiste Gourinat, Dominique Jaillard, Emmanuel Jambon, Attilio Mastrocinque, Maria Patera, Jörg Rüpke, Christian Robin, Gaëlle Tallet, John Scheid, Madalina Vârtejanu-Joubert.