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We and They Decolonizing Graeco-Roman and Biblical Antiquities.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Aarhus : Aarhus University Press, (c)2019.Description: 1 online resource (153 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9788771849370
  • 8771849378
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • D56 .W436 2019
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Contents:
Title Page -- Colophon -- Contents -- Introduction (Karmen MacKendrick and Jonathan Cahana) -- Aeschylus' Persians: Empathizing with the Enemy, or Orientalizing Them? (Manuela Giordano) -- Hidden assumptions -- Ancient Greece -- Aeschylus' Persians: a case study -- Conclusions -- Revelation At The Limit: Mystery and Matter after the Valentinians (Karmen MacKendrick) -- Cosmology -- Soteriology -- Evocation -- One, another -- Decolonizing Ancient Sexuality: Three Case Studies (Jonathan Cahana-Blum) -- Introduction -- David Halperin and Sexual Politics
Daniel Boyarin's Gender -- Conclusion -- Myths as 'Cultural Vectors': Some Reflections on Ancient Greece and Modern Ethnographic Traditions (Luca Pucci) -- Why Malinowski and the Greek Myths? -- What a myth can be and what it can do -- How myths arise, change, and keep themselves up to date -- Orality vs literacy -- Myths vs history and geography -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Liberating Levi: A Cultural-Evolutionary Approach to Aramaic and Greek Levi Beyond Denominational Essentialism (Jessica van 't Westeinde)
Greek T.Levi from T12P -- Beyond binary thinking and denominational essentialism -- Cultural-evolutionary theory as a liberation of Levi -- Cultural-evolutionary theory applied to the Greek Testament of Levi -- Conclusion -- Religion And Politics In The Jewish-Christian War In Sixth-Century Himyar (Pieter W. van der Horst) -- The upbeat to the war -- The sources -- The main issue between the Jews and the Christians -- The Rape Of Lucretia: Sanctity of Body and Soul in Augustine (Makiko Sato) -- Pudor and pudicitia
Corpus and animus -- Conclusion -- A Fluidity Of Canon And Textual Criticism In The Works Of Origen (Anna Usacheva) -- Introduction -- Canonical thinking in Origen's works -- Classical Homeric Scholarship and Origen's Textual Criticism -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index Of Names -- Index Of Subjects
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Cover -- Title Page -- Colophon -- Contents -- Introduction (Karmen MacKendrick and Jonathan Cahana) -- Aeschylus' Persians: Empathizing with the Enemy, or Orientalizing Them? (Manuela Giordano) -- Hidden assumptions -- Ancient Greece -- Aeschylus' Persians: a case study -- Conclusions -- Revelation At The Limit: Mystery and Matter after the Valentinians (Karmen MacKendrick) -- Cosmology -- Soteriology -- Evocation -- One, another -- Decolonizing Ancient Sexuality: Three Case Studies (Jonathan Cahana-Blum) -- Introduction -- David Halperin and Sexual Politics

Dale Martin's Queer History and Sexual Equality -- Daniel Boyarin's Gender -- Conclusion -- Myths as 'Cultural Vectors': Some Reflections on Ancient Greece and Modern Ethnographic Traditions (Luca Pucci) -- Why Malinowski and the Greek Myths? -- What a myth can be and what it can do -- How myths arise, change, and keep themselves up to date -- Orality vs literacy -- Myths vs history and geography -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Liberating Levi: A Cultural-Evolutionary Approach to Aramaic and Greek Levi Beyond Denominational Essentialism (Jessica van 't Westeinde)

Modern scholarship and the politics of the modern 'We' -- Greek T.Levi from T12P -- Beyond binary thinking and denominational essentialism -- Cultural-evolutionary theory as a liberation of Levi -- Cultural-evolutionary theory applied to the Greek Testament of Levi -- Conclusion -- Religion And Politics In The Jewish-Christian War In Sixth-Century Himyar (Pieter W. van der Horst) -- The upbeat to the war -- The sources -- The main issue between the Jews and the Christians -- The Rape Of Lucretia: Sanctity of Body and Soul in Augustine (Makiko Sato) -- Pudor and pudicitia

Pudicitia and sanctitas -- Corpus and animus -- Conclusion -- A Fluidity Of Canon And Textual Criticism In The Works Of Origen (Anna Usacheva) -- Introduction -- Canonical thinking in Origen's works -- Classical Homeric Scholarship and Origen's Textual Criticism -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index Of Names -- Index Of Subjects

Includes bibliographies and index.

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