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A Flight Back to Ground: Jung’s Recalcitrant Fourth as Rape into Consciousness. Symbolic Rape and Literal Rape in Persephone’s Myth [PDF]
J Anal PsycholAbstract Patricia Berry’s interpretation of the Demeter/Persephone myth, and her concept of rape into consciousness, illuminate intrapsychic dynamics. However, this symbolic lens may inadvertently distance us from the devastating nature of literal rape—a reality the Homeric Hymn encapsulates.
Barbara Cerminara
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Beyond the Greco-Roman or Jewish Monocle: Reading Philippians and Paul ‘Kaleidoscopically’
ReligionsTypically, scholars view/read the enigmatic apostle Paul monolithically—that is, through either a Greco-Roman or Jewish socio-cultural lens. The traditional Lutheran (Greco-Roman/Western) lens was criticized in the mid-/late-twentieth century by scholars
Gregory Lamb
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Die opstanding in die Jodedom, die Grieks-Romeinse wêreld en die Nuwe Testament
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2004 Resurrection in Judaism, the Greek-Roman world and the New Testament The article shows that in the Jewish and Greco-Roman worlds’ belief in the afterlife underwent a progressive development.
Ernest van Eck
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The Catechetical School in Alexandria
Verbum et Ecclesia, 2015 During her Golden Era, Alexandria, the Delta City of Egypt, was the pride of Africa in that she was larger than the two other world cities of the Roman Empire Rome and Antioch and also the unrivalled intellectual centre of the (Greco-)Roman world ...
Willem H. Oliver
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Pallas, 2018 Around 145 p. C., Alexander of Abonoteichos established in the margins of the Greco-Roman world one of the most spectacular cults in the history of oracles: the oracle of the new Asclepios, the snake Glycon, described by Lucian as the biggest fraudulent ...
Manfred Lesgourgues
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The Muslim World, EarlyView.Abstract This article discusses the concept of the Judeo‐Islamic God as a substantive and defensible alternative to the problematic concept of the “Judeo‐Christian God” in popular, political, and academic Western discourses. It argues that the transcendent monotheistic deity of Islam, Allāh, is a direct continuation of the composite deity of Rabbinic ...
Jeffry R. Halverson
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Obesity and the Politics of Taddeo di Bartolo's Inferno
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines Taddeo di Bartolo's depiction of Hell in the Collegiata di Santa Maria Assunta, the mother church of San Gimignano. In a striking departure from similar scenes of the period, the fresco, painted in the early fifteenth century, emphasizes the obesity of the sinners—suggesting a deliberate visual critique.
Stefania Roccas Gandal
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Archaeometry, Volume 68, Issue 4, Page 659-673, August 2026.ABSTRACT The hillfort of Castrejón de Capote is one of the best investigated settlements of Late Iron Age southwest Iberia. Located in the territory that the classical sources attributed to the Celtici, it was occupied between the early 4th and the 1st centuries bce.
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