This volume is the first in-depth study of a recently discovered Sanskrit dharani spell text from around the 5th century CE surviving in two palm-leaf and three paper manuscript compendia from Nepa...
Das um 1400 im Dominikanerkloster Nürnberg entstandene Prosalegendar "Der Heiligen Leben" war die verbreitetste volkssprachliche Legendensammlung des europäischen Mittelalters. Es ist in knapp 200 ...
The art of interpreting Holy Scriptures flourished throughout the culturally heterogeneous pre-modern Orient among Jews, Christians and Muslims. Different ways of interpretation developed within ea...
The art of interpreting Holy Scriptures flourished throughout the culturally heterogeneous pre-modern Orient among Jews, Christians and Muslims. Different ways of interpretation developed within ea...
Das komplexe Verhältnis von Religion und Rationalität wird hier anhand einer Vielfalt von Heiligen Texten untersucht, einem Medium, das eine Einordnung von Religion in rationale Zusammenhänge nahel...
Frontmatter -- Vorwort -- Inhalt -- Symbole als Repräsentation und Präsentation -- Symbols as representation and presentation -- Religion and Science as Cultural Systems: Polanyi's View on the Prob...
This volume addresses two pivotal questions surrounding the composition of 1Maccabees. It sets out to discern the place and function of the torah within the community described by the book. However...
