04329cam a2200649Ki 4500 on1035062068 OCoLC 20200709060613.0 m d cr |n||||||||| 180508s2018 oru ob 001 0 eng d YDX eng pn YDX N$T OCLCF OCLCQ KAT 1035305397 9781498283090 (electronic bk.) 1498283098 (electronic bk.) 9781498283083 149828308X 9781498283106 1498283101 1804000 (N$T) (OCoLC)1035062068 (OCoLC)1035305397 BL783 .M335 2018eb OCC 036020 bisacsh REL 072000 bisacsh 292.13 23 MAIN Martin, Luther H., 1937- author. Studies in Hellenistic religions / Luther H. Martin ; selected and edited with an introduction by Panayotis Pachis. Eugene, Oregon : Cascade Books, [2018] ©2018 1 online resource (xv, 390 pages) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Part 1: The Graeco-Roman Religious World -- Part 2: Oracular Dreaming -- Part 3: Graeco-Roman Mysteries -- Part 4: Hellenistic Judaism and Christianity -- Part 5: Gnosticism. Introduction: General Characteristics of the Hellenistic Era / Panayotis Pachis -- Greek and Roman Philosophy and Religion -- The Very Idea of Globalization: The Case of Hellenistic Empire -- Fate, Futurity, and Historical Consciousness in Western Antiquity -- Why Cecropian Minerva? Hellenistic Religious Syncretism as System -- Kingship and the Consolidation of Religiopolitical Power during the Hellenistic Period -- Biology, Sociology, and the Study of Religion: Two Lectures -- Religion and Dream Theory in Late Antiquity -- Prayer in Graeco-Roman Religions -- Petitionary Prayer in the Graeco-Roman World: Comparison, Consequences, Congnition, and a few Conclusions -- Imagistic Traditions in the Graeco-Roman World -- Those Elusive Eleusinian Mystery Shows -- Greek Goddesses and Grain: The Sicilian Connection -- History, Cognitive Science, and the Problematic Study of Folk Religions: The Case of the Eleusinian Mysteries of Demeter -- Mithras, Milites and Bovine Legs: A Response to Aleš Chalupa and Thamáš Glomb, "The Third Symbol of the Miles Grade on the Floor Mosaic of the Felicissimus Mithraeum in Ostia: A New Interpretation" -- "Star Talk": Native Competence; Initiatory Comprehension -- When Size Matters: Social Formations in the Graeco-Roman World -- Josephus's use of Heimarmenē in the Jewish Antiquities 8.171-173 -- Gods or Ambassadors of God? Barnabas and Paul in Lystra -- The Hellenisation of Judaeo-Christian Faith or the Christianisation of Hellenic Thought? -- The Encyclopedia Hellenistica and Christian Origins -- Past Minds: Evolution, Cognition, and Biblical Studies -- Genealogy and Sociology in the Apocalypse of Adam -- Technologies of the Self and Self-Knowledge in the Syrian Thomas Tradition -- Self and Power in the Thought of Plotinus. Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 16, 2018). Master record variable field(s) change: 050, 650, 651 Religion History. Greece Religion. Hellenism Religious aspects. Greece History To 146 B.C. Greece History 146 B.C.-323 A.D. Mediterranean Region History To 476. BODY, MIND & SPIRIT Spirituality Paganism & Neo-Paganism. bisacsh RELIGION Antiquities & Archaeology. bisacsh Hellenism. fast (OCoLC)fst00954758 Religion. fast (OCoLC)fst01093763 Electronic books. History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628 Pachis, Panayotis, editor, writer of introduction. EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1804000 EBSCOhost EBSC 1804000 YBP Library Services YANK 15341398 92 N$T 57590 57590