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Finding, Inheriting or Borrowing?
The Construction and Transfer of Knowledge in Antiquity and the Middle Ages- Editors:
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- Mainzer Historische Kulturwissenschaften, Volume 39
- Publisher:
- 2019
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- Edition
- 1/2019
- Copyright year
- 2019
- ISBN-Print
- 978-3-8376-4236-0
- ISBN-Online
- 978-3-8394-4236-4
- Publisher
- transcript, Bielefeld
- Series
- Mainzer Historische Kulturwissenschaften
- Volume
- 39
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 408
- Product type
- Edited Book
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- Preface and AcknowledgementsPages 9 - 12 Dominik Berrens, Jochen Althoff, Tanja Pommerening Download chapter (PDF)
- The Construction and Transfer of Knowledge in the Pre-Modern EraPages 13 - 38 Dominik Berrens, Jochen Althoff, Tanja Pommerening Download chapter (PDF)
- Transmitting Symbolic Concepts from the Perspective of Cultural Cognition - The Acquisition and Transfer of Folk-biological KnowledgePages 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 chapter (PDF)
- The Transfer of Knowledge from Mesopotamia to EgyptPages 71 - 98 Susanne Beck Download chapter (PDF)
- Epistemology in the Biblical Tradition - Judean Knowledge-Building, Scribal Craftsmanship, and Scribal CulturePages 99 - 122 Jeffrey L. Cooley Download chapter (PDF)
- Bodies of Texts, Bodies of Tradition - Medical Expertise and Knowledge of the Body among Rabbinic Jews in Late AntiquityPages 123 - 166 Lennart Lehmhaus Download chapter (PDF)
- The Reception and Rejection of "Foreign" Astronomical Knowledge in ByzantiumPages 167 - 184 Alberto Bardi Download chapter (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 BCEPages 187 - 212 Tim Brandes Download chapter (PDF)
- Shapeshifter - Knowledge of the Moon in Graeco-Roman EgyptPages 213 - 252 Victoria Altmann-Wendling Download chapter (PDF)
- Concepts Concerning the Moon in Plutarch''s De facie in orbe lunae - Found, Inherited, or Borrowed IdeasPages 253 - 278 Liba Taub Download chapter (PDF)
- Conclusion - Of Moon and Men: Observations about the Knowledge of the Moon in AntiquityPages 279 - 286 Victoria Altmann-Wendling Download chapter (PDF)
- Know Your Sources Before You Argue - Minucius Felix and Augustine of Hippo on the ConflagrationPages 289 - 312 Dominic Bärsch Download chapter (PDF)
- The Idea of an Apocalyptic Fire According to the Old and Middle Iranian SourcesPages 313 - 342 Götz König Download chapter (PDF)
- Poets, Prophets, and Philosophers - The End of the World According to Otto von FreisingPages 343 - 364 Dominic Bärsch Download chapter (PDF)
- The Ragnarǫk Myth in Scandinavia - Finding, Inheriting, and BorrowingPages 365 - 384 Jens Peter Schjødt Download chapter (PDF)
- Conclusion - The End of the World in FirePages 385 - 390 Dominik Berrens, Dominic Bärsch Download chapter (PDF)
- About the AuthorsPages 391 - 394 Dominik Berrens, Jochen Althoff, Tanja Pommerening Download chapter (PDF)
- Authors and Texts CitedPages 395 - 402 Dominik Berrens, Jochen Althoff, Tanja Pommerening Download chapter (PDF)
- General indexPages 403 - 408 Dominik Berrens, Jochen Althoff, Tanja Pommerening Download chapter (PDF)




