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New perspectives on old texts proceedings of the Tenth International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, 9-11January, 200...

Table of Contents: “…Schiffman -- The wood-offering: the convoluted evolution of a halakhah in Qumran and rabbinic law / Cana Werman -- Further reflections on a divine and angelic humanity in the Dead Sea Scrolls / Crispin H.T. …”
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Christology and scripture interdisciplinary perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…" christological readings of the Old Testament in the patristic era / Morwenna Ludlow -- Christology in the early Arian controversy : the exegetical war / Sara Parvis -- Resurrection and scripture / John Webster -- Christology, scripture, divine action and hermeneutics / Stephen R. Holmes -- Exegesis, ontology and ethics : Karl Barth on the Sermon on the mount / Paul T. …”
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Society, medicine and religion in the sacred tales of Aelius Aristides by Israelowich, Ido, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Aelius Aristides and the sacred tales -- Introduction -- The composition of the sacred tales -- Date of composition -- Method of composition -- Motives for composition -- The sacred tales as an autobiography -- The ancient readers of the sacred tales -- A narrative of redemption -- Society, disease and medicine in the sacred tales of Aristides -- Introduction -- The Graeco-Roman health-care system -- Towards a definition of a medical discourse -- Medicine in the Graeco-Roman world -- Roman medicine and its Greek influences -- Dreams -- The sick, medicine and physicians in the world of the sacred tales -- The place of the sick in society -- Medical discourse in the sacred tales -- The physicians in the sacred tales -- Towards a medical history of Aelius Aristides -- Falling ill -- Aristides and Asclepius -- Wider contexts -- Reconsidering private religions; religion and religious experience in the sacred tales of Aelius Aristides -- Introduction -- Theology -- The myth of Asclepius -- Divination, oracles and dreams -- Dreams -- Oracles -- Visual culture and social forms of cult-organisation -- Cult, festivals and games -- The power of images.…”
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Absorbing perfections Kabbalah and interpretation / by Idel, Moshe, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…The world-absorbing text -- The God-absorbing text : black fire on white fire -- Text and interpretation affinities in Kabbalah -- The book that contains and maintains all -- Magical and magical-mystical arcanizations of canonical books -- Torah study and mystical experiences in Jewish mysticism -- Secrecy, binah, and derishah -- Semantics, constellation, and interpretation -- Radical forms of Jewish hermeneutics -- The symbolic mode of theosophical-theurgical Kabbalah -- Allegories, divine names, and experiences in ecstatic Kabbalah -- Tzerufei otiyyot : mutability and accommodation of the Torah in Jewish mysticism -- Tradition, transmission, and techniques -- Concluding remarks -- Appendix 1. …”
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Jewish tradition and the challenge of Darwinism

Table of Contents: “…Kook / Carl Feit -- The order of creation and the emerging God : evolution and divine action in the natural world / Lawrence Troster.…”
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Denial and repression of antisemitism post-communist remembrance of the Serbian Bishop Nikolaj Velimirović / by Byford, Jovan

Table of Contents: “…: "anti-Judaism" and Orthodox Christian identity -- Questionable boundaries between anti-Judaism and antisemitism -- Deicidal justification of Jewish suffering : the Holocaust as divine retribution -- Antisemitism as prophecy : social construction of Velimirović's sanctity -- The first stage of the campaign for canonization : the making of a religious "cult" -- Canonization in the Orthodox Church and the need for divine confirmation of sanctity -- Finding the "right" miracle : incorruptibility of remains and miraculous icons -- The bishop who came "face to face with the living God" : Velimirović and the miracle of epiphany -- Velimirović as a "prophet" : the construction of the "Serbian Jeremiah".…”
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Denial and repression of antisemitism post-communist remembrance of the Serbian Bishop Nikolaj Velimirović / by Byford, Jovan

Table of Contents: “…: "anti-Judaism" and Orthodox Christian identity -- Questionable boundaries between anti-Judaism and antisemitism -- Deicidal justification of Jewish suffering : the Holocaust as divine retribution -- Antisemitism as prophecy : social construction of Velimirović's sanctity -- The first stage of the campaign for canonization : the making of a religious "cult" -- Canonization in the Orthodox Church and the need for divine confirmation of sanctity -- Finding the "right" miracle : incorruptibility of remains and miraculous icons -- The bishop who came "face to face with the living God" : Velimirović and the miracle of epiphany -- Velimirović as a "prophet" : the construction of the "Serbian Jeremiah".…”
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The uncollected Baudrillard by Baudrillard, Jean, 1929-2007

Table of Contents: “…Political Bankruptcy on the Left and Right -- The Divine Left -- Dropping Out of History: Interview with Sylvere Lotringer -- Our Theatre of Cruelty -- Part V. …”
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The city in the valley biblical interpretation and urban theology / by Georgi, Dieter

Table of Contents: “…Personal reflections on an American theological perspective -- Socioeconomic reasons for the "divine man" as propagandistic pattern -- Who is the true prophet? …”
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Philosophers without gods meditations on Atheism and the secular life /

Table of Contents: “…/ Elizabeth Secord Anderson -- Divine evil / David Lewis -- Meta-atheism: religious avowal as self-deception / Georges Rey -- Faith and Fanaticism / Jonathan E. …”
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Hellenic philosophy origin and character / by Evangeliou, Christos

Table of Contents: “…Porphyry the Platonist -- Platonism in the Italian Renaissance -- Adventures of Platonic philosophy -- Aristotle and western rationality -- The scope of this study -- Aristotles move from logos to nous -- Aristotle on divine and human beings -- Distinguishing between ontology and ousiology -- Perfecting the Aristotelian political animal -- Possible post-modern objections to Aristotle -- Critique and character of Hellenic philosophy -- Aristotles critique of Plato's polity -- The nature of the problem -- Community of women and children -- Community of property -- Pletho's critique of Aristotelian novelties -- Innovations in theology and ontology -- The Aristotelian homonymy of being -- Innovations in psychology, ethics and cosmology -- Critique of Aristotle's theories of art and cause -- Critique of Aristotle's critique of the theory of ideas -- The character of Hellenic philosophy -- The ambiguity of the appellation "western" -- Hellenic philosophy delineated -- Hellenic philosophy and "European philosophy."…”
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Childbirth as a metaphor for crisis evidence from the ancient Near East, the Hebrew Bible, and 1QH XI, 1-18 / by Bergmann, Claudia D.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The scope of this book -- Definitions of metaphor -- The approach to metaphor in this book -- Birth as event and metaphor in the ancient Near East -- The sources -- The experience of birth -- The experience of birth becomes a metaphor -- Birth as event and metaphor in the Hebrew Bible -- Birth as an event in the Hebrew Bible -- Birth as a metaphor in the Bebrew Bible -- The biblical birth metaphor for cases of local crisis -- War imagery and bad news -- War imagery -- Divine punishment imagery -- The biblical birth metaphor for cases of universal crisis -- Texts -- The biblical birth metaphor for cases of personal crisis -- Engulfment imagery -- War imagery -- Prophetic vision imagery -- 1QH XI, 1-18: the birth metaphor at Qumran -- 1QH XI, 1-18 within the corpus of the Hodayot -- The identity of the mothers and the children in 1QH XI, 1-18 -- Interpreting 1QG XI, 1-18 in light of the birth metaphor -- 1QH XI, 1-18 : personal and universal crisis.…”
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The creative retrieval of Saint Thomas Aquinas essays in Thomistic philosophy, new and old / by Clarke, W. Norris (William Norris), 1915-

Table of Contents: “…-- A curious blind spot in the Anglo-American tradition of antitheistic argument -- The problem of the reality and multiplicity of divine ideas in Christian neoplatonism -- Is the ethical eudaimonism of Saint Thomas too self-centered? …”
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Africas of the Americas beyond the search for origins in the study of Afro-Atlantic religions /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: On predications of Africanity / Stephan Palmié -- On leaving and joining Africanness through religion : the 'Black Caribs' across multiple diasporic horizons / Paul Christopher Johnson -- From Igbo Israeli to African Christian : the emergence of racial identity in Olaudah Equiano's Interesting narrative / James Sidbury -- Governing man-gods : spiritism and the struggle for progress in Republican Cuba / Reinaldo L. Román -- Divining the past : the linguistic reconstruction of 'African' roots in diasporic ritual registers and songs / Kristina Wirtz -- Ecué's Atlantic : an essay in methodology / Stephan Palmié -- Dona Preta's trek to Cachoeira / Brian Brazeal -- Transatlantic dialogue : Roger Bastide and the African American religions / Stefania Capone -- Peasants, migrants and the discovery of African traditions : ritual and social change in Lowland Haiti / Karen E. …”
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Consciousness, reality and value essays in honour of T.L.S. Sprigge /

Table of Contents: “…Allard -- The compounding of consciousness / Pierfrancesco Basile -- From consciousness to the absolute / William J. Mander -- How many divine minds? / John Leslie -- Sprigge's Spinoza / Peter Forrest -- Idealism and God / Leslie Armour -- God, Sprigge, and idealist philosophy of religion / William Sweet -- A Leibnizian god of metaphysics? …”
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Spirit, Qi, and the multitude a comparative theology for the democracy of creation / by Lee, Hyo-Dong

Table of Contents: “…The Great Ultimate as Primordial Manyone: The Promise and Peril of Toegye's Neo-Confucian "Heterodoxy" -- 5. From the Divine Idea to the Concrete Unity of the Spirit: Hegel's Shapes of Freedom and the Domination of Nature -- 6. …”
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The creative retrieval of Saint Thomas Aquinas essays in Thomistic philosophy, new and old / by Clarke, W. Norris (William Norris), 1915-

Table of Contents: “…-- A curious blind spot in the Anglo-American tradition of antitheistic argument -- The problem of the reality and multiplicity of divine ideas in Christian neoplatonism -- Is the ethical eudaimonism of Saint Thomas too self-centered? …”
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Africas of the Americas beyond the search for origins in the study of Afro-Atlantic religions /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: On predications of Africanity / Stephan Palmié -- On leaving and joining Africanness through religion : the 'Black Caribs' across multiple diasporic horizons / Paul Christopher Johnson -- From Igbo Israeli to African Christian : the emergence of racial identity in Olaudah Equiano's Interesting narrative / James Sidbury -- Governing man-gods : spiritism and the struggle for progress in Republican Cuba / Reinaldo L. Román -- Divining the past : the linguistic reconstruction of 'African' roots in diasporic ritual registers and songs / Kristina Wirtz -- Ecué's Atlantic : an essay in methodology / Stephan Palmié -- Dona Preta's trek to Cachoeira / Brian Brazeal -- Transatlantic dialogue : Roger Bastide and the African American religions / Stefania Capone -- Peasants, migrants and the discovery of African traditions : ritual and social change in Lowland Haiti / Karen E. …”
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Consciousness, reality and value essays in honour of T.L.S. Sprigge /

Table of Contents: “…Allard -- The compounding of consciousness / Pierfrancesco Basile -- From consciousness to the absolute / William J. Mander -- How many divine minds? / John Leslie -- Sprigge's Spinoza / Peter Forrest -- Idealism and God / Leslie Armour -- God, Sprigge, and idealist philosophy of religion / William Sweet -- A Leibnizian god of metaphysics? …”
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Spirit, Qi, and the multitude a comparative theology for the democracy of creation / by Lee, Hyo-Dong

Table of Contents: “…The Great Ultimate as Primordial Manyone: The Promise and Peril of Toegye's Neo-Confucian "Heterodoxy" -- 5. From the Divine Idea to the Concrete Unity of the Spirit: Hegel's Shapes of Freedom and the Domination of Nature -- 6. …”
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