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We and They Decolonizing Graeco-Roman and Biblical Antiquities.
The articles collected in this volume share a very similar goal: to decolonize our understanding of antiquity, thus allowing modernity to converse with antiquity without constraining the latter to be either the direct precedent or the thoroughly other of the former. It is certainly true that the pas...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Aarhus :
Aarhus University Press,
2019.
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| Colección: | Aarhus studies in Mediterranean antiquity.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Colophon
- Contents
- Introduction (Karmen MacKendrick and Jonathan Cahana)
- Aeschylus' Persians: Empathizing with the Enemy, or Orientalizing Them? (Manuela Giordano)
- Hidden assumptions
- Ancient Greece
- Aeschylus' Persians: a case study
- Conclusions
- Revelation At The Limit: Mystery and Matter after the Valentinians (Karmen MacKendrick)
- Cosmology
- Soteriology
- Evocation
- One, another
- Decolonizing Ancient Sexuality: Three Case Studies (Jonathan Cahana-Blum)
- Introduction
- David Halperin and Sexual Politics
- Dale Martin's Queer History and Sexual Equality
- Daniel Boyarin's Gender
- Conclusion
- Myths as 'Cultural Vectors': Some Reflections on Ancient Greece and Modern Ethnographic Traditions (Luca Pucci)
- Why Malinowski and the Greek Myths?
- What a myth can be and what it can do
- How myths arise, change, and keep themselves up to date
- Orality vs literacy
- Myths vs history and geography
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- Liberating Levi: A Cultural-Evolutionary Approach to Aramaic and Greek Levi Beyond Denominational Essentialism (Jessica van 't Westeinde)
- Modern scholarship and the politics of the modern 'We'
- Greek T.Levi from T12P
- Beyond binary thinking and denominational essentialism
- Cultural-evolutionary theory as a liberation of Levi
- Cultural-evolutionary theory applied to the Greek Testament of Levi
- Conclusion
- Religion And Politics In The Jewish-Christian War In Sixth-Century Himyar (Pieter W. van der Horst)
- The upbeat to the war
- The sources
- The main issue between the Jews and the Christians
- The Rape Of Lucretia: Sanctity of Body and Soul in Augustine (Makiko Sato)
- Pudor and pudicitia
- Pudicitia and sanctitas
- Corpus and animus
- Conclusion
- A Fluidity Of Canon And Textual Criticism In The Works Of Origen (Anna Usacheva)
- Introduction
- Canonical thinking in Origen's works
- Classical Homeric Scholarship and Origen's Textual Criticism
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index Of Names
- Index Of Subjects