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Art of Ancient Egypt and the Ancient Near East
, 2012 This course serves as an introduction to the major artistic and architectural traditions of Ancient Egypt and the Ancient Near East, and explores how artifacts and monuments can be used to study the history and culture of the ancient world.
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Journal of Sleep Research, Volume 34, Issue 2, April 2025.Summary Dreaming, a common yet mysterious cognitive phenomenon, is an involuntary process experienced by individuals during sleep. Although the fascination with dreams dates back to ancient times and gained therapeutic significance through psychoanalysis in the early twentieth century, its scientific investigation only gained momentum with the ...
Carlotta Mutti +2 more
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Theodor Steinbüchel's Great Figures of Christian Humanism
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract Theodor Steinbüchel (1888–1949) offers a study of eight figures in Western history who may be regarded as gestalts of Christian Humanism. He argued that none of these eight figures will ever return in the same way, but since there was an eternal conception of Christianity to which their ethos gave human form, each of these gestalts can be ...
Tracey Rowland
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Christian Humanism in the Black Atlantic: The Case of Olaudah Equiano
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores Olaudah Equiano as a pivotal figure in the emergence of a Christian humanism forged within the Black Atlantic. Building on the analyses of Sylvia Wynter and Paul Gilroy, it examines how Equiano's The Interesting Narrative contests the racial figuration of the human that underwrote the development of racial capitalism and ...
Luke Bretherton
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Faience: the ceramic technology of ancient Egypt [PDF]
, 2012 Faiences are ancient Egyptian ceramic materials, considered as "high-tech" products. The paper discussed the method by which the faiences were produced and the application of SEM and Raman spectroscopy to their ...
Sparavigna, Amelia Carolina
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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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The architect Kha's protractor [PDF]
, 2011 Kha was an architect at Deir El-Medina, Egypt, supervisor of some projects completed during the reigns of three kings of the 18th Dynasty (approximately 1440-1350 BC). Buried with his wife Merit, the items of their tomb are exposed at the Egyptian Museum,
Sparavigna, Amelia Carolina
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Lost in translation: the history of the Ebers Papyrus and Dr. Carl H. von Klein. [PDF]
J Med Libr Assoc, 2023 Hartsock JA, Halverson CME.
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Secrecy: An Epistemological Account
Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Although the ethical and political implications of secrecy are significant, I argue here that its fundamental nature is epistemological and that any account of its nature must be based on its epistemological profile. In particular, I propose examining secrecy within the framework of social and political epistemology, considering secrets as ...
Jesús Navarro
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A manifesto for the study of the ancient Egyptian environment [PDF]
, 2020 The study of ancient Egypt lags behind other historical and archaeological disciplines by failing to prioritize the study of the environment. In order to generate meaningful knowledge about past societies situated along the Nile, it is necessary to ...
Moeller, N. +8 more
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