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Finding, Inheriting or Borrowing?

The Construction and Transfer of Knowledge in Antiquity and the Middle Ages
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 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

Table of contents

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  1. FrontmatterPages 1 - 4 Dominik Berrens, Jochen Althoff, Tanja Pommerening Download chapter (PDF)
  2. CONTENTPages 5 - 8 Dominik Berrens, Jochen Althoff, Tanja Pommerening Download chapter (PDF)
  3. Preface and AcknowledgementsPages 9 - 12 Dominik Berrens, Jochen Althoff, Tanja Pommerening Download chapter (PDF)
  4. The Construction and Transfer of Knowledge in the Pre-Modern EraPages 13 - 38 Dominik Berrens, Jochen Althoff, Tanja Pommerening Download chapter (PDF)
  5. 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)
  6. The Transfer of Knowledge from Mesopotamia to EgyptPages 71 - 98 Susanne Beck Download chapter (PDF)
  7. Epistemology in the Biblical Tradition - Judean Knowledge-Building, Scribal Craftsmanship, and Scribal CulturePages 99 - 122 Jeffrey L. Cooley Download chapter (PDF)
  8. 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)
  9. The Reception and Rejection of "Foreign" Astronomical Knowledge in ByzantiumPages 167 - 184 Alberto Bardi Download chapter (PDF)
  10. "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)
  11. Shapeshifter - Knowledge of the Moon in Graeco-Roman EgyptPages 213 - 252 Victoria Altmann-Wendling Download chapter (PDF)
  12. Concepts Concerning the Moon in Plutarch''s De facie in orbe lunae - Found, Inherited, or Borrowed IdeasPages 253 - 278 Liba Taub Download chapter (PDF)
  13. Conclusion - Of Moon and Men: Observations about the Knowledge of the Moon in AntiquityPages 279 - 286 Victoria Altmann-Wendling Download chapter (PDF)
  14. Know Your Sources Before You Argue - Minucius Felix and Augustine of Hippo on the ConflagrationPages 289 - 312 Dominic Bärsch Download chapter (PDF)
  15. The Idea of an Apocalyptic Fire According to the Old and Middle Iranian SourcesPages 313 - 342 Götz König Download chapter (PDF)
  16. Poets, Prophets, and Philosophers - The End of the World According to Otto von FreisingPages 343 - 364 Dominic Bärsch Download chapter (PDF)
  17. The Ragnarǫk Myth in Scandinavia - Finding, Inheriting, and BorrowingPages 365 - 384 Jens Peter Schjødt Download chapter (PDF)
  18. Conclusion - The End of the World in FirePages 385 - 390 Dominik Berrens, Dominic Bärsch Download chapter (PDF)
  19. About the AuthorsPages 391 - 394 Dominik Berrens, Jochen Althoff, Tanja Pommerening Download chapter (PDF)
  20. Authors and Texts CitedPages 395 - 402 Dominik Berrens, Jochen Althoff, Tanja Pommerening Download chapter (PDF)
  21. General indexPages 403 - 408 Dominik Berrens, Jochen Althoff, Tanja Pommerening Download chapter (PDF)

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