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‘I am not strong to dig and I am afraid to beg’: Social status and status concern in the parable of the Dishonest Steward (Lk 16:1–9)

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2021
This article offers a reading of the parable of the Dishonest Steward from the perspective of Greco-Roman status concern. It observes that the parable has a long and complicated history of interpretation.
Louis Ndekha
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Assuming the role of an orientalist: Alexander Mishulin's articles about the history of the Ancient East

open access: yesУченые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные науки, 2021
The popular articles written by A.V. Mishulin (1901–1948), a Soviet historian of antiquity, were analyzed. These articles are focused on the history and culture of the Ancient East states (Egypt, India, and China) with account of their impact on the ...
S.B. Krikh
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Exploring the Acoustics of Ancient Open-Air Theatres

open access: yesArchives of Acoustics, 2020
The theatres of Antiquity, Greek and Roman, constitute public buildings of the utmost importance in the history of Western culture and in universal cultural heritage.
Sara GIRÓN   +2 more
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HERODIAN JUDEA: GAMES, POLITICS, KINGSHIP

open access: yesJournal of Ancient History and Archaeology, 2015
This article will detail the kingship of Herod the Great in Judea and his enrollment of Greco-Roman architecture and culture during his reign in the first century BCE.  Herod, it seems, made a deliberate break from his Jewish kingdom for the electrifying
Cody Scott Ames
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The Pythagoreans in the light and shadows of recent research

open access: yesScripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1970
It has been said' that "Pythagoras casts a long shadow in the history of Greek thought". Indeed, the shadow both widens and deepens spectacularly in course of time.
Holger Thesleff
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The idea of becoming an individual in the context of early Christianity

open access: yesУкраїнське Pелігієзнавство, 1997
The last centuries before the beginning of the Christian era, the first centuries after that, were enveloped in the history of mankind as a period of the total crisis and the decline of the Greco-Roman civilization, a crisis that covered virtually all ...
Pavlo Pavlenko
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A Historical-Legal Overview of Constitution as the Highest Political-Legal Act of a State

open access: yesJournal on European History of Law, 2013
The constitutional history is a constituent and very important segment of the science of constitutional law. From the beginning of the political history of the society, several legal acts have been enacted to regulate different social issues, including ...
Blerton Sinani, Sami Mehmeti
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New Inscriptions from Smyrna

open access: yesGephyra, 2021
The latest corpus of the inscriptions from Smyrna was published by Georg Petzl in Die Inschriften von Smyrna, Teil II,2: Addenda, Corrigenda und Indices, in series of Inschriften griechische Städte aus Kleinasien, volume 24,2, Bonn: Dr. Rudolf Habelt, in
Akın ERSOY, Ş. Recai TEKOĞLU
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Literary Adaptations of Jewish Sages in the Works of Josephus Flavius

open access: yesClassica Cracoviensia, 2015
Literary Adaptations of Jewish Sages in the Works of Josephus Flavius The paper focuses on the Judeo-Hellenic writers composing in times of Roman occupation, especially on works created by Josephus Flavius.
Aleksandra Wojtasik
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A quantitative philology of introspection

open access: yesFrontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 2012
The cultural evolution of introspective thought has been recognized to undergo a drastic change during the middle of the first millennium BC. This period, known as the ``Axial Age'', saw the birth of religions and philosophies still alive in modern ...
Carlos eDiuk   +4 more
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