Dioses, templos y oráculos

Dioses, templos y oráculos
Author: Francisco José Gómez Fernández
Publisher: Nowtilus
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 8497633709

Desde los inicios de la civilización, el hombre he pretendido responder al sentido de su propia existencia, a su misión en la tierra y a qué le espera tras la muerte, la respuesta a estas preguntas condiciona la vida humana desde la Prehistoria hasta la actualidad. Desde las primeras organizaciones tribales, el hombre ha sentido la necesidad de responder a las cuestiones trascendentales de la existencia y de poner en común las distintas respuestas para elaborar un código de creencias que aliviara la ansiedad ante el destino desconocido del hombre y ante la incertidumbre de la muerte, pero que también funcionara como marco ético de las comunidades y como un modo de jerarquizarlas. Dioses, templos y oráculos describe las creencias de cinco civilizaciones antiguas "los hititas, los babilonios, los egipcios, los griegos y los romanos- y nos enseña con ello cómo a aquellos hombres les inquietaban las mismas cosas que a nosotros. Francisco José Gómez desentrañará en este libro las preguntas sobre la existencia, las creencias sobre el origen del mundo, las convicciones sobre la muerte, las complejas mitologías y, algo menos tratado en los manuales, las artes adivinatorias de estas cinco culturas. Pero también, el rastro material que esas creencias trascendentales dejaban en los pueblos: los templos, los altares, las castas sacerdotales, los túmulos, tumbas y panteones" Los primeros en aparecer serán los hititas de los que descubriremos la lucha salvaje que, según ellos, daba origen al universo o la adivinación del futuro a través del vuelo de ciertas aves; los babilonios sin embargo tenían un particular panteón con más de 3.

Religion in the Roman Empire

Religion in the Roman Empire
Author: Jörg Rüpke
Publisher: Kohlhammer Verlag
Total Pages: 548
Release: 2021-10-06
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 3170292269

The Roman Empire was home to a fascinating variety of different cults and religions. Its enormous extent, the absence of a precisely definable state religion and constant exchanges with the religions and cults of conquered peoples and of neighbouring cultures resulted in a multifaceted diversity of religious convictions and practices. This volume provides a compelling view of central aspects of cult and religion in the Roman Empire, among them the distinction between public and private cult, the complex interrelations between different religious traditions, their mutually entangled developments and expansions, and the diversity of regional differences, rituals, religious texts and artefacts.

Antike Mythen

Antike Mythen
Author: Ueli Dill
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 775
Release: 2009
Genre: History
ISBN: 3110209098

Dieser Band versammelt Beiträge von namhaften europäischen und amerikanischenAltertumswissenschaftlern und Religionswissenschaftlern, die einen repräsentativen Querschnitt der zeitgenössischen Erforschung des Mythos, seiner Erscheinungsformen und seiner Transformationen in unterschiedlichen Bereichen und Epochen darbieten.

Prophets and Prophecy in the Ancient Near East

Prophets and Prophecy in the Ancient Near East
Author: Martti Nissinen
Publisher: SBL Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2019-07-09
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0884143414

A new, expanded edition of a classic reference tool This volume of more than 170 documents of prophecy from the ancient Near East brings together a representative sample of written documents from Mesopotamia, the Levant, and Egypt dating to the second and first millennia BCE. Nissinen's collection provides nonspecialist readers clear translations, transliterations, and discussions of oracles reports and collections, quotations of prophetic messages in letters and literature, and texts that reference persons with prophetic titles. This second edition includes thirty-four new texts. Features: Modern, idiomatic, and readable English translations Thirty-four new translations Contributions of West Semitic, Egyptian, and Luwian sources from C. L. Seow, Robert K. Ritner, and H. Craig Melchert

Magical Practice in the Latin West

Magical Practice in the Latin West
Author: Richard Lindsay Gordon
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 737
Release: 2010
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004179046

Most studies of Graeco-Roman magic focus on the Greek texts. Stimulated by important recent finds of Latin curse-tablets, this collection of essays for the first time tries to define the nature and extent of the originality of magical practice in the Latin West

A History of Western Astrology

A History of Western Astrology
Author: S. J. Tester
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Total Pages: 274
Release: 1987
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780851152554

Superb general account.' Times Literary Supplement The story of the history of Western astrology begins with the philosophers of Greece in the 5th century BC. To the magic and stargazing of Egypt the Greeks added numerology, geometryand rational thought. The philosophy of Plato and later of the Stoics made astrology respectable, and by the time Ptolemy wrote his textbook the Tetrabiblos, in the second century AD, the main lines of astrological practice as it is known today had already been laid down. In future centuries astrology shifted to Islam only to return to the West in medieval times where it flourished until the shift of ideas during the Renaissance.

Revolution in History

Revolution in History
Author: Roy Porter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1986-10-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521277846

Fifteen contributors examine the interpretative value of ideas of revolution for explaining historical development within their own speciality. They assess the existing historiography and offer their personal views.