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Religion and the self in antiquity /

Many recent studies have argued that the self is a modern invention, a concept developed in the last three centuries. Religion and the Self in Antiquity challenges that idea by presenting a series of studies that explore the origins, formation, and limits of the self within the religions of the anci...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Brakke, David, Satlow, Michael L., Weitzman, Steven, 1965-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, ©2005.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Shifting selves in late antiquity / Patricia Cox Miller
  • The search for the elusive self in texts of the Hebrew Bible / Saul M. Olyan
  • The slave self / J. Albert Harrill
  • Prayer of the queen : Esther's religious self in the Septuagint / Esther Menn
  • Giving for a return : Jewish votive offerings in late antiquity / Michael L. Satlow
  • The self in Artemidorus' interpretation of dreams / Peter T. Struck
  • Sensory reform in Deuteronomy / Steven Weitzman
  • Locating the sensing body : perception and religious identity in late antiquity / Susan Ashbrook Harvey
  • Dialogue and deliberation : the sensory self in the hymns of Romanos the Melodist / Georgia Frank
  • From master of wisdom to spiritual master in late antiquity / Guy G. Stroumsa
  • The beastly body in rabbinic self-formation / Jonathan Schofer
  • Making public the monastic life : reading the self in Evagrius Ponticus' talking back / David Brakke
  • The student self in late antiquity / Edward Watts.