Finding, Inheriting or Borrowing?
The Construction and Transfer of Knowledge in Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Since the dawn of humanity, people have developed concepts about themselves and the natural world in which they live. This volume aims at investigating the construction and transfer of such concepts between and within various ancient and medieval cultures. The single contributions try to answer questions concerning the sources of knowledge, the strategies of transfer and legitimation as well as the conceptual changes over time and space. After a comprehensive introduction, the volume is divided into three parts: The contributions of the first section treat various theoretical and methodological aspects. Two additional thematic sections deal with a special field of knowledge, i.e. concepts of the moon and of the end of the world in fire.
Kapitel-Übersicht
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Frontmatter
Seiten 1 - 4 -
CONTENT
Seiten 5 - 8 -
Preface and Acknowledgements
Seiten 9 - 12 -
The Construction and Transfer of Knowledge in the Pre-Modern Era
Seiten 13 - 38 -
SECTION 1: METHODOLOGICAL AND THEORETICAL ASPECTS
Transmitting Symbolic Concepts from the Perspective of Cultural Cognition - The Acquisition and Transfer of Folk-biological Knowledge
Seiten 41 - 70 -
The Transfer of Knowledge from Mesopotamia to Egypt
Seiten 71 - 98 -
Epistemology in the Biblical Tradition - Judean Knowledge-Building, Scribal Craftsmanship, and Scribal Culture
Seiten 99 - 122 -
Bodies of Texts, Bodies of Tradition - Medical Expertise and Knowledge of the Body among Rabbinic Jews in Late Antiquity
Seiten 123 - 166 -
The Reception and Rejection of "Foreign" Astronomical Knowledge in Byzantium
Seiten 167 - 184 -
SECTION 2: OF MAN AND MOON - KNOWLEDGE AND CULTURAL MEANING OF THE MOON
"He assigned Him as the Jewel of the night" - The Knowledge of the Moon in Mesopotamian Texts of the Late Second and First Millennia BCE
Seiten 187 - 212 -
Shapeshifter - Knowledge of the Moon in Graeco-Roman Egypt
Seiten 213 - 252 -
Concepts Concerning the Moon in Plutarch's De facie in orbe lunae - Found, Inherited, or Borrowed Ideas
Seiten 253 - 278 -
Conclusion - Of Moon and Men: Observations about the Knowledge of the Moon in Antiquity
Seiten 279 - 286 -
SECTION 3: THE END OF THE WORLD IN FIRE - IMAGINATIONS FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE MIDDLE AGES
Know Your Sources Before You Argue - Minucius Felix and Augustine of Hippo on the Conflagration
Seiten 289 - 312 -
The Idea of an Apocalyptic Fire According to the Old and Middle Iranian Sources
Seiten 313 - 342 -
Poets, Prophets, and Philosophers - The End of the World According to Otto von Freising
Seiten 343 - 364 -
The Ragnarǫk Myth in Scandinavia - Finding, Inheriting, and Borrowing
Seiten 365 - 384 -
Conclusion - The End of the World in Fire
Seiten 385 - 390 -
About the Authors
Seiten 391 - 394 -
Authors and Texts Cited
Seiten 395 - 402 -
General index
Seiten 403 - 408
5. März 2019, 408 Seiten
ISBN: 978-3-8376-4236-0
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