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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Mediterranean World"”.
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Fidelity to God : perseverance in Hebrews in light of the reciprocity systems of the ancient Mediterranean world.
… was one primary dynamic in the ancient Mediterranean world for establishing fidelity to a relationship and has been applied by some scholars, such as David deSilva, to Hebrews as the way to understand its strategy for creating perseverance. A major problem with the application of this …
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Reading Selves/Writing Selves: Tracing the Intellectual History of Writing as a Technology of the Self
<p>From the advent of writing in the ancient Mediterranean world, people have found ways to forge a connection between their selves and the text. Whether by means and for purposes of representation, translation, or presentation of the self, writing as a technology has long functioned as a method of …
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The Evolution of Thought: The Development and Motivation of Religious Conflict Between Christians and Muslims in the Iberian Peninsula From 711-1609
… forces and indeed were a microcosm of the entire Mediterranean world at the time. They were not the consequence of isolation and local oppression, though this did occur as a result. The research traces the Muslim experience in the Iberian as they evolved from rulers to exiles. It compares five …
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The legitimacy of Jesus : an Afrocentric reading of the birth of Jesus
… of the understanding of Jesus's birth in the Mediterranean world in chapter 4 shows that that charge came solely from Jesus's opponents whether they were Jewish or non-Jewish. An examination of pre-marital sexual relations and marriage customs among African societies in chapter 4 shows that …
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Second Corinthians: St. Paul’s political displacement from Corinth and his rhetoric of return
… of reconciliation and return within the ancient Mediterranean world in order to become familiar with the phenomena attendant to such exigencies and aims, for which is supplied the etic descriptor, political displacement. Sensitivity to the phenomena attendant to reconciliation and return and …
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Globalizing the Sculptural Landscapes of the Sarapis and Isis Cults in Hellenistic and Roman Greece
… Sarapis, Isis, and Harpokrates from around the Mediterranean, I demonstrate that Greek communities relied on globally available visual tropes rather than creating site or region-specific interpretations. In the next section, I examine what other sources viewers drew upon to inform their …
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Tam Grecos Quam Latinos: A Reinterpretation of Structural Change in Eastern-Rite Monasticism in Medieval Southern Italy, 11th-12th Centuries
… of cultural and social contacts in the broader Mediterranean world, and especially with Byzantium, even during the Norman domination. Chapter 3 will focus on the fundamental patterns of southern-Italian monastic change in the early Middle Ages, emphasising the gradual movement from informal …
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Maritime Iconography at Punic Votive Sites at Carthage and Cirta: An Analysis of Watercraft Imagery from the 4th-1st c. BCE
… for other contemporaneous ports around the Mediterranean basin. To provide context for the maritime iconography on the stelae, ship graffiti, model boats, and other images of ships from the 4th - 1st c. BCE Mediterranean world are also discussed. Previous interpretations of the maritime …
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Finding Onesimus: Recovering the Story of a First-Century Fugitive Slave
… The project also examines slavery in the Ancient Mediterranean world with a view toward understanding what most slaves experienced, and especially fugitive slaves. Roman law of slavery is also discussed, as well as the estimated travel times and cost of Onesimus’ journey (whether from Colossae to …
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"""A disgrace to her Colours"": the Mediterranean population problem & tactics of governmentality in eighteenth-century Gibraltar"
… forces in 1704, Britain formally acquired this Mediterranean possession in 1713. Shortly after its acquisition, Britons embraced the territory as their own, proclaiming it to be a ""bulwark"" of Great Britain and ""bastion"" of Britishness. However, the reality on the ground belied such …
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The origins of Christian ecstasy: a critical survey.
… familiar to the ancient (non-Christian) Mediterranean world to be und.erstood as ecstatic? (III) How are we to locate pre-Montanist Christianity within (or outside) this spectrum? The whole is intended to fill a gap by providing a classificatory basis for discussion of the place of …
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A border of cloth: Ecological systems and critical spatial perspectives on the Islamic hijab
… the Muslim community, Muslim countries, and the world at large. Each of these levels, in turn, influence the system at large. This theory illustrates that the ?ij?b cannot be studied in isolation. Critical spatial theory argues that there is a constant interaction between physical, mental, and …
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Confessional Politics and Religious Identity in the Early Jesuit Missions to the Ottoman Empire
… their place between Rome and the Ottoman world. They had to amend their missionary efforts based on the circumstances in which they found themselves, and this often ran contrary to the wishes of their patrons. Finally, I argue that the Jesuits in the early modern Ottoman Empire were equal …