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 Eliezer Segal, "The Most Precious Possession: The Ring of Polycrates in Ancient Religious Narratives " English | ISBN: 1433126141 | 2014 | 191 pages | PDF | 2 MB Finding a precious object - a gem, a ring or a coin - inside the belly of a fish is a favorite motif in western literatures that can be traced back to the Greek historian Herodotus. In Herodotus' account of the rise and fall of the tyrant Polycrates of Samos, the hero cast his beloved ring, his «most precious possession», into the sea in order to appease or fend off the gods' envy of his unstoppable successes, but was ultimately disappointed to discover that same ring inside a serving of fish that was placed before him to eat, thereby signaling the beginning of his tragic downfall. examines variations on this motif as they appear in ancient religious texts, including the Gospel of Matthew, Jewish Midrash and Talmud, and Augustine's . It explores how the theme functions in relation to the authors' respective religious outlooks and literary objectives and what we can learn from these examples about the processes of transmission, interaction and cultural adaptation that occurred among the diverse religious communities of the ancient Mediterranean basin.  The Inca Empire for Kids: A Captivating Guide to the Incas and Their Civilization, from Early Beginnings to the Spanish Conquest (History for Children) by Captivating History English | March 12, 2022 | ISBN: 1637165935 | 90 pages | EPUB | 3.48 Mb Grab your investigative tools, and get ready to meet the Inca people. They were the biggest civilization in the Americas during their time, so how did they fall so quickly to the Spanish conquistadors? Dive into this book to learn more about the Inca Empire in a fun, up-to-date journey through its history.  Oliver Defaux, "The Iberian Peninsula in Ptolemy's Geography" English, Italiano | 2017 | ISBN: 3981638468 | PDF | pages: 476 | 4.5 mb Claudius Ptolemy composed his 'Geography' in the city of Alexandria, one of the most prominent intellectual centres of the Roman Empire. His work offers a comprehensive description of the known world as well as insight into the practice of scholarly geography during the second century CE. Ptolemy's most important innovation in this field was his use of geographical coordinates to create maps of the world, and his catalogue, with its latitudes and longitudes of thousands of localities, is one of our most valuable sources on the antique 'oikoumene'. Very little is known, however, about the sources and working methods that Ptolemy employed to produce his 'Geography'. This book focuses on Ptolemy's description of the Iberian peninsula and examines two problematic and interlinked topics relating to the origins of the catalogue of localities: Ptolemy's sources and scientific methods on the one hand, and the textual transmission of the 'Geography', from Ptolemy to the extant manuscripts, on the other. -- In der Reihe BERLIN STUDIES OF THE ANCIENT WORLD erscheinen Monographien und Sammelbände aller altertumswissenschaftlichen Disziplinen. Die Publikationen gehen aus der Arbeit des Exzellenzclusters "Topoi. The Formation and Transformation of Space and Knowledge in Ancient Civilizations" hervor, einem Forschungsverbund der Freien Universität Berlin und der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin sowie den Partnerinstitutionen Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Max- Planck- Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte und Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz. Die Reihe ist Bestandteil der Publikationsplattform Edition Topoi. Alle Bände der Reihe sind elektronisch unter www. edition- topoi.org verfügbar.  Peter I. Hajnal, "The G20: Evolution, Interrelationships, Documentation Ed 2" English | ISBN: 1138577502 | 2019 | 342 pages | PDF | 2 MB This revised and updated edition presents detailed analysis of the history and current state of the G20, and the challenges it faces.  The Foreign Film Renaissance on American Screens, 1946-1973 By Tino Balio 2010 | 362 Pages | ISBN: 0299247945 | PDF | 3 MB Largely shut out of American theaters since the 1920s, foreign films such as Open City, Bicycle Thief, Rashomon, The Seventh Seal, Breathless, La Dolce Vita and L'Avventura played after World War II in a growing number of art houses around the country and created a small but influential art film market devoted to the acquisition, distribution, and exhibition of foreign-language and English-language films produced abroad. Nurtured by successive waves of imports from Italy, Great Britain, France, Sweden, Japan, and the Soviet Bloc, the renaissance was kick-started by independent distributors working out of New York; by the 1960s, however, the market had been subsumed by Hollywood. From Roberto Rossellini's Open City in 1946 to Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris in 1973, Tino Balio tracks the critical reception in the press of such filmmakers as François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Tony Richardson, Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa, Luis Buñuel, Satyajit Ray, and Milos Forman. Their releases paled in comparison to Hollywood fare at the box office, but their impact on American film culture was enormous. The reception accorded to art house cinema attacked motion picture censorship, promoted the director as auteur, and celebrated film as an international art. Championing the cause was the new "cinephile" generation, which was mostly made up of college students under thirty. The fashion for foreign films depended in part on their frankness about sex. When Hollywood abolished the Production Code in the late 1960s, American-made films began to treat adult themes with maturity and candor. In this new environment, foreign films lost their cachet and the art film market went into decline.  Alexander C. Loney, "The Ethics of Revenge and the Meanings of the Odyssey" English | 2019 | ISBN: 0190909676 | PDF | pages: 281 | 3.0 mb This book is the first in-depth examination of revenge in the Odyssey. The principal revenge Description of the Odyssey -Odysseus' surprise return to Ithaca after twenty away and his vengeance on Penelope's suitors - is the act for which he is most celebrated. This story forms the backbone of the  Simon C. Estok, "The Ecophobia Hypothesis " English | ISBN: 1138502057 | 2018 | 218 pages | PDF | 28 MB The Ecophobia Hypothesis grows out of the sense that while the theory of biophilia has productively addressed ideal human affinities with nature, the capacity of "the biophilia hypothesis" as an explanatory model of human/ environment relations is limited. The biophilia hypothesis cannot adequately account for the kinds of things that are going on in the world, things so extraordinary that we are increasingly coming to understand the current age as "the Anthropocene." Building on the usefulness of the biophilia hypothesis, this book argues that biophilia exists on a broader spectrum that has not been adequately theorized. The Ecophobia Hypothesis claims that in order to contextualize biophilia (literally, the "love of life") and the spectrum on which it sits, it is necessary to theorize how very un-philic human uses of the natural world are. This volume offers a rich tapestry of connected, comparative discussions about the new material turn and the urgent need to address the agency of genes, about the complexities of 21st century representations of ecophobia, and about how imagining terror interpenetrates the imagining of an increasingly oppositional natural environment. Furthermore, this book proposes that ecophobia is one root cause that explains why ecomedia―a veritably thriving industry―is having so little measurable impact in transforming our adaptive capacities. The ecophobia hypothesis offers an equation that determines the variable spectrums of the Anthropocene by measuring the ecophobic implications and inequalities of speciesism and the entanglement of environmental ethics with the writing of literary madness and pain. This work also investigates how current ecophobic perspectives systemically institutionalize the infrastructures of industrial agriculture and waste management. This is a book about revealing ecophobia and prompting transformational change.  John C. Peckham, "The Concept of Divine Love in the Context of the God-World Relationship " English | ISBN: 1433125161 | 2014 | 682 pages | PDF | 5 MB The Concept of Divine Love in the Context of the God-World Relationship addresses the significant and far-reaching theological conflict over the nature of God's love, which is deeply rooted in broader conflicts regarding divine ontology and the nature of the God-world relationship. After engaging the traditional historical theology of love and recent exemplars of competing and influential conceptions of divine love, John C. Peckham seeks an alternative to the impasse by an extensive inductive investigation of the entire biblical canon in accordance with a final-form canonical approach to systematic theology, offering an alternative model of divine love that draws on the richness of the biblical text as canon and holds considerable implications for the God-world relationship.
 The Complete Mediterranean DASH Diet with 140 Best DASH Diet Recipes To Help Blood Pressure, Prevent Hypertension, Shake Weight by MARJORIE DIEUDONNE English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09SKVRSL2 | 606 pages | EPUB | 108 Mb You will learn:
 Minkyu Lee, "The Breaking of Bread and the Breaking of Boundaries: A Study of the Metaphor of Bread in the Gospel of Matthew " English | ISBN: 1433127687 | 2015 | 230 pages | PDF | 967 KB This book investigates the Matthean use of bread and the breaking of bread in light of cognitive conceptual metaphor, which are not only intertwined within Matthew's narrative Descriptions but also function to represent Matthew's communal identity and ideological vision. The metaphor of bread and its cognitive concept implicitly connect to Israel's indigenous sense of identity and religious imagination, while integrating the socio-religious context and the identity of Matthean community through the metaphoric action: . While using this metaphor as a narrative strategy, Matthew not only keeps the Jewish indigenous socio-religious heritage but also breaks down multiple boundaries of religion, ethnicity, gender, class, and the false prejudice in order to establish an alternative identity and ideological vision. From this perspective, this book presents how the Matthean functions to reveal the identity of Matthew's community formative Judaism and the Roman Empire. In particular, the book investigates the metaphor of as a source of Matthew's rhetorical claim that represents its ideological vision for an alternative community beyond the socio-religious boundaries. The book also reviews Matthean contexts by postcolonial theories - and - subverting and deconstructing the hegemony of the dominant groups of formative Judaism and the imperial ideology of Rome. |
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