Levant, Cradle of Abrahamic Religions

Levant, Cradle of Abrahamic Religions
Author: Catalin-Stefan Popa
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2022-08-28
Genre:
ISBN: 3643914261

The volume is the result of a Lecture Series on The Levant, Cradle of Abrahamic Religions, which engaged scholars on topics related to the cultural and religious diversity of the historical Levant. Like a jigsaw, the studies contained within showcase interlock fragments of the historical encounters between faiths, religions and societies in a rich Levantine and Oriental space, in an attempt to render them more accessible to readers today by focusing both on broader religious phenomena as well as on the practical, liturgical and social interaction between traditions and mentalities, features representative of both faith and society at large.

Levant, Cradle of Abrahamic Religions

Levant, Cradle of Abrahamic Religions
Author: Catalin-Stefan Popa
Publisher: LIT Verlag
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2022-11-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 3643964269

The volume is the result of a Lecture Series on The Levant, Cradle of Abrahamic Religions, which engaged scholars on topics related to the cultural and religious diversity of the historical Levant. Like a jigsaw, the studies contained within showcase interlock fragments of the historical encounters between faiths, religions and societies in a rich Levantine and Oriental space, in an attempt to render them more accessible to readers today by focusing both on broader religious phenomena as well as on the practical, liturgical and social interaction between traditions and mentalities, features representative of both faith and society at large. Catalin-Stefan Popa is Director of the History Department within The Institute for Advanced Studies in Levant Culture and Civilization (ISACCL), Bucharest, Romania and Senior Researcher at the Romanian Academy.

Holy Lands of Abrahamic Religions

Holy Lands of Abrahamic Religions
Author: K Ravindran
Publisher: Notion Press
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2023-01-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

The three Abrahamic religions trace their common patriarch to Abraham, as referred to by Jews and Christians, and Ibrahim as referred to by Muslims. The origin of all three religions was in the West Asian region around Israel/Jerusalem. The West Asian region has been a flash point from prehistoric times and continues to be so even in the present times. The reason for this starts from the Middle Period of 2200 BCE till the 21st century, a span of over 4000 years, multiple nations, religions, ethnicities and races had been battling out their differences and viewpoints almost continuously, with few periods of peace and stability in between. For ease of understanding, the author has divided the book into six parts. The first briefly deals with genesis to modern period, the second with the contradictory claims and counterclaims of the three religions, the third with the holy books and scriptures of Judaism and Christianity, the fourth with the phenomenal survival and growth of modern Israel against heavy odds, the fifth with a historical timeline of Judaism and Israel and the last with an itinerary of a nine-day pilgrimage tour of the holy lands of Jews and Christians.

Proper Names of Telugu Catholics and Kerala Syrian Christians

Proper Names of Telugu Catholics and Kerala Syrian Christians
Author: Smita Joseph
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Total Pages: 228
Release:
Genre:
ISBN: 3643914407

The contribution of this book to existing work in socio-onomastic research is its treatment of the official and unofficial names of the two Indian Christian communities (i. e., Kerala Syrian Christians and Telugu Catholics), in terms of the functions they fulfil in the lives of the community members. This work is based on empirical data and thus highlights empirical issues and applications, meant to make the book of use to the current generation of linguists and sociolinguists. The author strikes a balance between qualitative and quantitative approaches and analyses of data. In addition, both reflexive and constitutive approaches to naming have been used.

The Abrahamic Vernacular

The Abrahamic Vernacular
Author: Rebecca Scharbach Wollenberg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2024-04-25
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1009286765

Contemporary thought typically places a strong emphasis on the exclusive and competitive nature of Abrahamic monotheisms. This instinct is certainly borne out by the histories of religious wars, theological polemic, and social exclusion involving Jews, Christians, and Muslims. But there is also another side to the Abrahamic coin. Even in the midst of communal rivalry, Jews, Christians, and Muslim practitioners have frequently turned to each other to think through religious concepts, elucidate sacred history, and enrich their ritual practices. Scholarship often describes these interactions between the Abrahamic monotheisms using metaphors of exchange between individuals-as if one tradition might borrow a theological idea from another in the same way that a neighbor might borrow a recipe. This Element proposes that there are deeper forms of entanglement at work in these historical moments.

Middle Eastern History

Middle Eastern History
Author: Raymond C. Nelson
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2017-01-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781542382908

How did a fertile region turn humankind from small tribes of hunter-gatherers into the civilizations we know today? Where did writing, culture, and agriculture begin? How did the belief in a single, all-powerful God sprout and thrive in a world where people worshiped many different gods? These are just some of the questions you'll find answers to in History of the Middle East: Melting Pot - Holy Wars & Holy Cities - From the Sumerians to the Ottoman Empire and Today's Nation States: Israel, Iran, Iraq and Egypt - Shaping the Near East History. The Middle East is the cradle of civilization. Where humankind once roamed in small groups of hunter-gatherers and foraged for food and shelter, then learned to plant crops and build structures. Today, we are an advanced civilization that has conquered the skies, oceans, and even the moon. To understand how this transformation occurred, take a brief trip back into the history of the Middle East, where it all began. Go back to the origins of humankind, where two rivers formed the Fertile Crescent and civilization sprouted. Watch the Abrahamic Religions bud in the Levant along the eastern Mediterranean Sea and develop into Judaism and Christianity. Witness the steady march of empires hold sway over Middle Eastern trade, resources, religion and culture for millennia. Visit the sacred cities whose connections to holy people and events sparked bitter conflict. Start your study of the birthplace of human civilization today with History of the Middle East: Melting Pot - Holy Wars & Holy Cities - From the Sumerians to the Ottoman Empire and Today's Nation States: Israel, Iran, Iraq and Egypt - Shaping the Near East History.

The Emperor and the Elephant

The Emperor and the Elephant
Author: Sam Ottewill-Soulsby
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2023-07-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 0691229384

A new history of Christian-Muslim relations in the Carolingian period that provides a fresh account of events by drawing on Arabic as well as western sources In the year 802, an elephant arrived at the court of the Emperor Charlemagne in Aachen, sent as a gift by the ʿAbbasid Caliph, Harun al-Rashid. This extraordinary moment was part of a much wider set of diplomatic relations between the Carolingian dynasty and the Islamic world, including not only the Caliphate in the east but also Umayyad al-Andalus, North Africa, the Muslim lords of Italy and a varied cast of warlords, pirates and renegades. The Emperor and the Elephant offers a new account of these relations. By drawing on Arabic sources that help explain how and why Muslim rulers engaged with Charlemagne and his family, Sam Ottewill-Soulsby provides a fresh perspective on a subject that has until now been dominated by and seen through western sources. The Emperor and the Elephant demonstrates the fundamental importance of these diplomatic relations to everyone involved. Charlemagne and Harun al-Rashid’s imperial ambitions at home were shaped by their dealings abroad. Populated by canny border lords who lived in multiple worlds, the long and shifting frontier between al-Andalus and the Franks presented both powers with opportunities and dangers, which their diplomats sought to manage. Tracking the movement of envoys and messengers across the Pyrenees, the Mediterranean and beyond, and the complex ideas that lay behind them, this book examines the ways in which Christians and Muslims could make common cause in an age of faith.

The Traditional Teaching of the Ethiopian Orthodox Täwahedo Church

The Traditional Teaching of the Ethiopian Orthodox Täwahedo Church
Author: Christine Chaillot
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Total Pages: 250
Release:
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ISBN: 3643803435

Christine Chaillot’s new book, The Traditional Teaching of the Ethiopian Orthodox Täwahedo Church: Faith and Spirituality, presents a topic that is little – if at all – known outside Ethiopia, even in Christian circles. Moreover, it is a much neglected field in the wider study of African education. It is a teaching based on ancient texts and books, taught orally to the students who will become the future clergy and who will then share their knowledge with the faithful in Church life. The studies of the different disciplines are pursued at different schools and at different levels, in liturgy, theology with commentaries of books (Old and New Testaments, books of the Church fathers and monks) as well as composition of poems (qenes) and iconography. All this teaching presented in the present volume is deeply related to the faith and spirituality of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. This teaching is a unique intangible cultural heritage. One wonders, however, what its future will be in the context of the modern educational methods and social attitudes that have evolved in Ethiopia over the last half-century.

The Three So-Called Abrahamic Religions

The Three So-Called Abrahamic Religions
Author: Alhaji McDikkoh
Publisher: Xulon Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-03-12
Genre:
ISBN: 9781662859694

It might surprise some to know that two religions, Christianity and Judaism, of the three so-called Abrahamic religions do not have anything in common with one of the three, Islam; for after all, except for the fact that they all come from the same geographical region, the Middle East. The reason for such an assumption, for example, the worshiping of "one true" holy God, is that because of Islam's claim and its belief in a unitarian concept of the divine deity that might be the object of its belief and, therefore, its purported worship of that same God, which both Judaism and Christianity aspire to worship. The worship of this one God, Islam only professes to believe and desperately pretends to worship Him. In reality, it actually worships a different god who it calls "Allah". Therefore, these two other religions have nothing in common with Islam, even if, or as, they share a common geographical region, the Middle East. Islam's level of morality and its hatred for all non-Muslims further separates, no, disqualifies it from the other two religions that are actually couched in the love of God, the Lord Almighty. Furthermore, there is only a conjecture, only a veneer that attends to such a professed claim, which attempts invain to link Islam to Abraham, yet without any scintilla of an evidence that shows how links Arabs, including Mohammad its claimed "prophet", as having descended from Abraham. Such a claim, therefore, and that is to say "if", meaning that if one exist, makes it moot, based on the fact that such supposed "one" evidence does exist, since one evidence is not even a far cry sufficient, much less overwhelming! Furthermore, another claim of Abraham and all Biblical prophets were Muslims is so very baseless and, without any substantiated evidential fact or facts, and hence, it neither has a foundation in neither reality or in the Biblical Scriptures' Therefore, again, one is forced to surmise that it must have emanated from the suspicion-filled and the hallucinatory mind of Mohammad, the self-proclaimed, yet a "miracleless-prophet" of Islam. Lastly, but just as equally very important, is the fact that there is no evidence, either from the Judaeo-Christian Scriptures, nor even from the Islamic qurans and all others many so-called "Islamic scriptures," which might point and lead anyone to assume any similarity among these faiths or religions. The best conclusion that anyone can make about this untenable situation is that Islam is aberrant a religion from the Judaeo-Christian perspective, based on its claimed affiliation to the other two "real" Abrahamic religions that were started by the "real" descendants of Abraham from the Middle-Eastern religions. Therefore, Islam has zero supporting evidence for its claim to be Abrahamic!

Cheese and Culture

Cheese and Culture
Author: Paul Kindstedt
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2012-04-01
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1603584129

Behind every traditional type of cheese there is a fascinating story. By examining the role of the cheesemaker throughout world history and by understanding a few basic principles of cheese science and technology, we can see how different cheeses have been shaped by and tailored to their surrounding environment, as well as defined by their social and cultural context. Cheese and Culture endeavors to advance our appreciation of cheese origins by viewing human history through the eyes of a cheese scientist. There is also a larger story to be told, a grand narrative that binds all cheeses together into a single history that started with the discovery of cheese making and that is still unfolding to this day. This book reconstructs that 9000-year story based on the often fragmentary information that we have available. Cheese and Culture embarks on a journey that begins in the Neolithic Age and winds its way through the ensuing centuries to the present. This tour through cheese history intersects with some of the pivotal periods in human prehistory and ancient, classical, medieval, renaissance, and modern history that have shaped western civilization, for these periods also shaped the lives of cheesemakers and the diverse cheeses that they developed. The book offers a useful lens through which to view our twenty-first century attitudes toward cheese that we have inherited from our past, and our attitudes about the food system more broadly. This refreshingly original book will appeal to anyone who loves history, food, and especially good cheese.