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Miracle-workers and magicians in the Acts of the Apostles and Philostratus' Life of Apollonius of Tyana. [PDF]
, 1999 The miracle-workers and magicians we meet in the Greco-Roman world and on the pages of Greco-Roman narratives are among the most difficult characters for modem scholars to understand. While Greco-Roman writers presume their readers will share their socio-
Reimer, Andy Melford
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Van Opstall, E.M. (2019). Sacred Thresholds. The Door to the Sanctuary in Late Antiquity
Arys. Antigüedad, Religiones y Sociedades, 2020 VAN OPSTALL, EMILIE M. (ed.) (2018). Sacred Thresholds. The Door to the Sanctuary in Late Antiquity. Religions in the Graeco-Roman World, 185. Leiden and Boston: Brill. 376 pp., 252,00€ [ISBN 978- 9-0043-6859-0] [Book review]
Beatrice Caseau
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Arys. Antigüedad, Religiones y Sociedades, 2022 The first alchemist for whom we have biographical data, Zosimos, lived in the Panopolis (current Akhmim) of the late 3rd – early 4th cent. CE, a region in which evidence of the practice of traditional Egyptian religion is attested well into Late ...
Marina Escolano-Poveda
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Flavius Belisarius Epicus Metallicus. L’immagine di un generale tra Procopio e l’Heavy Metal
Nuova Antologia Militare, 2022 Heavy Metal has always kept a close bond with the Classical Age. Since the pioneers Led Zeppelin, the presence of themes and characters linked to the graeco-roman world has found fertile soil in a musical genre that eagerly feeds itself over every aspect
Federico Landini
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An ʿAqaba/Ayla‐type amphora in the sultanate of Oman
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 119-127, November 2023., 2023 Abstract Antique trade amphorae illuminate a little understood but important find category for Arabia, still in the twilight of publication. Most of the find data lie buried in unpublished work regarding recent excavations at ʿAqaba/Ayla. Recent research has verified mineralogically the origin of these documents and their dating.
Paul A. Yule
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Modern Theology, Volume 39, Issue 4, Page 607-626, October 2023., 2023 Abstract T. F. Torrance's corpus of historical and theological writings contains genealogical reflections on the field of Christian doctrine. The basic shape of the genealogy is determined by what Torrance calls certain “ultimates,” theological commitments that derive their justification not from other beliefs that possess more authority than they ...
Darren Sarisky
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Scandinavian Journal for Leadership & Theology, 2022 In this collection of essays, Australian ancient historian and biblical scholar, James R. Harrison, compares aspects of today’s cult of celebrity, fuelled by various media, to the quest for glory in Roman antiquity. This was a quest characterised by the
Christoph Stenschke
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The hermetic logos : reading the "Corpus Hermeticum" as a reflection of Graeco-Egyptian mentality [PDF]
, 2010 This study analyses Hermetic literature and focuses on the seventeen treatises of the so-called Corpus Hermeticum. It takes as its starting point the assumption that what are nowadays known as the Philosophical Hermetica emerged as a product of a Graeco ...
Gurgel Pereira, Ronaldo Guilherme
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Living voice and lifeless letters: Reserve towards writing in the Graeco-Roman world
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 1993 This study contributes to the understanding of communication in antiquity by analysing a few specific references to oral and literate traditions in Hellenistic and Christian texts.
P. J.J. Botha
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Ciceroniana On Line, 2020 Comptes rendus – Recensioni 545 C. Beltrão da Rosa, F. Santangelo (eds.), Cicero and Roman Religion (S. Rozzi) 547 M. Galzerano, La fine del mondo nel De Rerum Natura di Lucrezio (A.
Stefano Rozzi +5 more
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