Dream Divination in a Context of Social Disruption: Julian’s Vision of the Two Trees
ReligionsThe late Roman discourse on divinatory dreams and their interpretation reflects a context of cultural fragmentation. The political turbulence of the 350s to 360s was due partly to the ongoing external war with the (Persian) Sasanians, but also to the ...
Bronwen Neil
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, 2013 A potent and formative text for a theological aesthetics faithful to the God revealed in the Scriptures is the Apocalypse of John (Revelation). An apocalyptic viewpoint is beautiful inasmuch as it observes the whole from within the part of time/space and
Scalise, Brian T
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Proposal for encoding the Inscriptional Parthian, Inscriptional Pahlavi, and Psalter Pahlavi scripts in the SMP of the UCS [PDF]
, 2007 This is a proposal to encode Inscriptional Parthian and Inscriptional Pahlavi in the international character encoding standard Unicode. The scripts were published in Unicode Standard version 5.2 in October 2009.
Everson, Michael, Pournader, Roozbeh
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Translation theory and practice in the Abbasid era [PDF]
, 2014 textThis paper explores the theoretical approaches to translation and the dynamics of language politics during the ʻAbbāsid-era translation movement through the lens of three prominent figures of the ʿAbbāsid era, Ḥunayn ibn Isʹhāq, Mattā bin Yūnus
Goodin, Katherine Sproul
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Late Antiquity and World History [PDF]
, 2017 The flourishing of late-antique studies in the last half-century has coincided with the rise of “world history” as an area of academic research. To an extent, some overlap has occurred, particularly with Sasanian Persia being considered alongside the ...
Mark Humphries
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Ultan Qalası: A Fortified Site in the Sasanian Borderlands (Mughan Steppe, Iranian Azerbaijan) [PDF]
, 2014 Our knowledge of Sasanian imperial strategy continues to grow as a result of a range of projects investigating the frontiers of the Sasanian Empire. Understanding of the north-western fringe of the Empire in particular is being increased by the Mughan ...
Alizadeh, Karim
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Late Holocene onset of intensive cultivation and introduction of the falaj irrigation system in the Salut oasis (Sultanate of Oman) [PDF]
, 2018 This paper discusses the time and steps of the introduction of intensive agriculture and evolution of irrigation systems to sustain crops in the palaeo-oasis of Salut in the northern Sultanate of Oman.
Cremaschi, Mauro +5 more
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Oversight, influence and Mesopotamian connections to Armenia across the Sasanian and early Islamic periods [PDF]
, 2015 Postprin
Greenwood, Timothy William
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Current investigations into the early Neolithic of the Zagros foothills of Iraqi Kurdistan [PDF]
, 2016 This article summarises multiple seasons of fieldwork at the Early Neolithic sites of Bestansur and Shimshara in Iraqi ...
Aziz, Kamal Rauf +3 more
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, 2012 In Persian literature Kalila wa Demna has been known in different versions since the 6th century ...
Riedel, Dagmar A.
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