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.
The Construction and Transfer of Knowledge in the Pre-Modern EraSeiten 13 - 38 Dominik Berrens, Jochen Althoff, Tanja Pommerening Download Kapitel (PDF)
Transmitting Symbolic Concepts from the Perspective of Cultural Cognition - The Acquisition and Transfer of Folk-biological KnowledgeSeiten 41 - 70 Tim Brandes, Jeffrey L. Cooley, Götz König, Jens Peter Schjødt, Liba Taub, Victoria Altmann-Wendling, Alberto Bardi, Dominic Bärsch, Susanne Beck, Lennart Lehmhaus, Roy Ellen Download Kapitel (PDF)
The Transfer of Knowledge from Mesopotamia to EgyptSeiten 71 - 98 Susanne Beck Download Kapitel (PDF)
Epistemology in the Biblical Tradition - Judean Knowledge-Building, Scribal Craftsmanship, and Scribal CultureSeiten 99 - 122 Jeffrey L. Cooley Download Kapitel (PDF)
Bodies of Texts, Bodies of Tradition - Medical Expertise and Knowledge of the Body among Rabbinic Jews in Late AntiquitySeiten 123 - 166 Lennart Lehmhaus Download Kapitel (PDF)
The Reception and Rejection of "Foreign" Astronomical Knowledge in ByzantiumSeiten 167 - 184 Alberto Bardi Download Kapitel (PDF)
"He assigned Him as the Jewel of the night" - The Knowledge of the Moon in Mesopotamian Texts of the Late Second and First Millennia BCESeiten 187 - 212 Tim Brandes Download Kapitel (PDF)
Shapeshifter - Knowledge of the Moon in Graeco-Roman EgyptSeiten 213 - 252 Victoria Altmann-Wendling Download Kapitel (PDF)
Concepts Concerning the Moon in Plutarch''s De facie in orbe lunae - Found, Inherited, or Borrowed IdeasSeiten 253 - 278 Liba Taub Download Kapitel (PDF)
Conclusion - Of Moon and Men: Observations about the Knowledge of the Moon in AntiquitySeiten 279 - 286 Victoria Altmann-Wendling Download Kapitel (PDF)
Know Your Sources Before You Argue - Minucius Felix and Augustine of Hippo on the ConflagrationSeiten 289 - 312 Dominic Bärsch Download Kapitel (PDF)
The Idea of an Apocalyptic Fire According to the Old and Middle Iranian SourcesSeiten 313 - 342 Götz König Download Kapitel (PDF)
Poets, Prophets, and Philosophers - The End of the World According to Otto von FreisingSeiten 343 - 364 Dominic Bärsch Download Kapitel (PDF)
The Ragnarǫk Myth in Scandinavia - Finding, Inheriting, and BorrowingSeiten 365 - 384 Jens Peter Schjødt Download Kapitel (PDF)
Conclusion - The End of the World in FireSeiten 385 - 390 Dominik Berrens, Dominic Bärsch Download Kapitel (PDF)
About the AuthorsSeiten 391 - 394 Dominik Berrens, Jochen Althoff, Tanja Pommerening Download Kapitel (PDF)
