Finding, Inheriting or Borrowing?: The Construction and Transfer of Knowledge in Antiquity and the Middle Ages

Dominik Berrens; Jochen Althoff; Tanja Pommerening

doi:10.14361/9783839442364

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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

FrontmatterPages 1 - 4
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CONTENTPages 5 - 8
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Preface and AcknowledgementsPages 9 - 12
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The Construction and Transfer of Knowledge in the Pre-Modern EraPages 13 - 38
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Transmitting Symbolic Concepts from the Perspective of Cultural Cognition - The Acquisition and Transfer of Folk-biological KnowledgePages 41 - 70
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The Transfer of Knowledge from Mesopotamia to EgyptPages 71 - 98
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Epistemology in the Biblical Tradition - Judean Knowledge-Building, Scribal Craftsmanship, and Scribal CulturePages 99 - 122
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Bodies of Texts, Bodies of Tradition - Medical Expertise and Knowledge of the Body among Rabbinic Jews in Late AntiquityPages 123 - 166
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The Reception and Rejection of "Foreign" Astronomical Knowledge in ByzantiumPages 167 - 184
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"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
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Shapeshifter - Knowledge of the Moon in Graeco-Roman EgyptPages 213 - 252
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Concepts Concerning the Moon in Plutarch''s De facie in orbe lunae - Found, Inherited, or Borrowed IdeasPages 253 - 278
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Conclusion - Of Moon and Men: Observations about the Knowledge of the Moon in AntiquityPages 279 - 286
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Know Your Sources Before You Argue - Minucius Felix and Augustine of Hippo on the ConflagrationPages 289 - 312
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The Idea of an Apocalyptic Fire According to the Old and Middle Iranian SourcesPages 313 - 342
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Poets, Prophets, and Philosophers - The End of the World According to Otto von FreisingPages 343 - 364
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The Ragnarǫk Myth in Scandinavia - Finding, Inheriting, and BorrowingPages 365 - 384
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Conclusion - The End of the World in FirePages 385 - 390
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About the AuthorsPages 391 - 394
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Authors and Texts CitedPages 395 - 402
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General indexPages 403 - 408
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