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This volume is about significant re-interpretations of the ‘creation of heaven and earth’ as narrated in Genesis 1. The contents and contexts of these later interpretations extend through Early Judaism…
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In this book the varied and important reception is traced which the story of the revelation of YHWH’s name to Moses received in Judaism, early Christianity, and the pagan Graeco-Roman…
George H. van Kooten
Expanded version of a collection of essays published elsewhere previously between 2005 and 2008, plus one new essay published here for the first time.
George H. van Kooten,Geurt Hendrik Van Kooten
Revision of the author’s thesis (Ph. D.)–University of Leiden, 2001.
This collection of essays gives a vivid impression of Egypt as background and stage of Jewish, Christian, and Gnostic thought and life in antiquity. It demonstrates Egypt’s important role in…
This book reports the results of the first ever multidisciplinary scientific conference dealing with the Star of Bethlehem, presenting the views of renowned specialists in astronomy, the ancient near-eastern and…
In this book the ambiguous reception is traced which the pagan prophet Balaam received in Judaism, early Christianity and Islam.
In Intolerance, Polemics, and Debate in Antiquity politico-cultural, philosophical, and religious forms of critical conversation in the ancient Near Eastern, Biblical, Graeco-Roman, and early-Islamic world are discussed. The contributions enquire…
This first volume of the new Brill series Ancient Philosophy & Religion offers analyses of Platonic philosophy and piety, the emergence of a common religio-philosophical discourse in Antiquity, the place…
Jews, Christians and Muslims describe elements of their origins with close reference to the narrative of Abraham, including the complex story of Abraham’s relations with Hagar. This volume sketches the…
