Lange / Meyers / Styers Light Against Darkness

Dualism in Ancient Mediterranean Religion and the Contemporary World
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-3-647-55016-9
Verlag: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 2, 368 Seiten

Reihe: Journal of Ancient Judaism. Supplements.

Light Against Darkness is comprised of articles that put on display the power and pervasiveness of dualistic thought. Dualism has proved a potent cultural tool for clarifying and ordering reality. Particularly in times of social stress and psychological insecurity, it can offer a valuable conceptual grid that provides orientation to the world and a clear sense of identity. At the same time, though, there are important questions to be asked about the social effects of binary thinking. As history amply illustrates, dualistic notions can readily be deployed to legitimate cultural demonization and to rationalize violence. At a deeper level, a dualist worldview can also obscure the possibilities to be found in multiplicity.The articles in this volume treat Dualism across a wide historical spectrum and from multiple methodological perspectives. The studies are organized around the religious and cultural contexts of Ancient Judaism and they include contributions from leading voices on ancient Persia, Israel, Greece, and Egypt.Experts on modern religious and philosophical thought not only lend context to concepts applied to the ancient world, but engage recent European and American experiments in binary thought. All of the studies contribute to a richer and more complete portrait of dualism in ancient Judaism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lange, Armin

Styers, Randall

Meyers, Eric M.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Ariel, Yaakov S.

Alexander, Philip

Horton, Fred

Sundermann, Werner

Reeves, John C.

Stuckenbruck, Loren T.

McCarter Jr, P. Kyle

Miller, Patrick Lee

Bland, Kalman P.

Sadler Jr., Rodney S.

Plese, Zlatko

Lycan, William G.

Rosenthal, Michael A.

Aufrere, Sydney H.

Skjærvø, Prods Oktor

Fontaine, Piet F. M.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Cover;1
2;Title Page
;4
3;Copyright
;5
4;Table of Contents;6
5;Body
;8
6;Introduction;8
7;P. Kyle McCarter, jr. Dualism in Antiquity;20
8;Sydney H. AuFrère Dualism and Focalization in Alexandrian Religious Thought in Egypt at the Beginning of the Ptolemaic Period: Manetho of Sebennytos and the Argive Myth .;37
9;Prods Oktor Skjærvø Zoroastrian Dualism.;56
9.1;Appendix: The Sources of Zoroastrianism ..;77
10;Eric M. Meyers From Myth to Apocalyptic: Dualism in the Hebrew Bible;93
11;Patrick Lee Miller Greek Philosophical Dualism;108
12;Loren T. Stuckenbruck The Interiorization of Dualism within the Human Being in Second Temple Judaism: the Treatise of the Two Spirits (1QS III: 13–IV: 26) in its tradition-historical context;146
13;Philip S. Alexander The Dualism of Heaven and Earth in early Jewish Literature and its Implications;170
14;Fred L. Horton Dualism in the New Testament: a Surprising Rhetoric and a Rhetoric of Surprise;187
15; Zlatko Pleše Gnostic Dualism ;210
16;Werner Sundermann What has come down to us from Manicheism?;227
16.1;with an Appendix by Prods Oktor Skjærvø;242
17;John C. Reeves Manichaeans as Ahl al-Kit..b: a Study in Manichaean Scripturalism;250
18;Piet F. M. Fontaine What is Dualism, and what is it not?;267
19;Kalman P. Bland Human-Animal Dualism in Modernity and Premodern Jewish Thought;278
20;Rodney S. Sadler jr. Exegesis in Black and White: Dualism in 19TH and early 20TH Century African American Biblical Hermeneutics;284
21;Yaakov Ariel “You must choose! The Prince of Peace or the Prince of Darkness”: Evangelical Beliefs and American Dualism at the turn of the twenty-first Century;295
22;Michael A. Rosenthal Spinoza’s Monism and Jewish Philosophy;311
23;Randall Styers Displacements and Proliferations: Moves beyond Dualism in Contemporary Continental Thought;326
24;William G. Lycan Recent Naturalistic Dualisms;349
25;Index;365
26;Author Information ;368

Über Autor(innen)

Styers, Randall
Randall Styers, PhD, is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Meyers, Eric M.
Eric M. Meyers, PhD, is Bernice and Morton Lerner Professor of Religion and Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at Duke University.

Lange, Armin
Dr. theol. Armin Lange ist Professor für das Judentum des zweiten Tempels und Vorstand des Instituts für Judaistik der Universität Wien. In seinen Lehrveranstaltungen bestreitet er die Zeit von den Anfängen Israels und Judas bis zum zweiten jüdischen Krieg. In seiner Forschung spezialisiert er sich auf die weisheitliche und prophetische Literatur Israels, die Textfunde vom Toten Meer sowie die Text- und Kanongeschichte der Hebräischen Bibel. Er ist Mitglied des internationalen Herausgeberteams der Textfunde vom Toten Meer.