Author: Saint Epiphanius (Bishop of Constantia in Cyprus)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Epiphanius' Treatise on Weights and Measures
Author: Saint Epiphanius (Bishop of Constantia in Cyprus)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Epiphanius' Treatise on Weights and Measures
Author: Epiphanius (helgon)Epiphanius' Treatise on Weights and Measures
Author: James Elmer DeanEpiphanius' Treatise on Weights and Measures
Author: James Elmer DeanPublisher:
ISBN: 9789140059819
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
Epiphanius of Cyprus
Author: Andrew S. JacobsPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520385705
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Epiphanius, Bishop of Constantia on Cyprus from 367 to 403 CE, was incredibly influential in the last decades of the fourth century. Whereas his major surviving text—the Panarion, an encyclopedia of heresies—is studied for lost sources, Epiphanius himself is often dismissed as an anti-intellectual eccentric, a marginal figure of late antiquity. In this book, Andrew S. Jacobs moves Epiphanius from the margin back toward the center and proposes we view major cultural themes of late antiquity in a new light altogether. Through an examination of the key cultural concepts of celebrity, conversion, discipline, scripture, and salvation, Jacobs shifts our understanding of late antiquity from a transformational period open to new ideas and peoples toward a Christian Empire that posited a troubling, but ever-present, otherness at the center of its cultural production.
Selected Studies in Pseudepigrapha and Apocrypha with Special Reference to the Armenian Tradition
Author: Michael StonePublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900467554X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
This work gathers the author's contributions to four central areas of the study of Ancient Jewish literature, "Enoch and the Testaments", "4 Ezra", "The Study of Ancient Judaism (particularly of apocalypticism)," and the development of apocryphal traditions in Armenian. It presents authoritative studies by a leading scholar in the field.
Enoch and the Mosaic Torah
Author: Jason von EhrenkrookPublisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 0802864090
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
The early Enoch literature does not refer to the Mosaic Torah or emphasize the distinctively Mosaic laws designed for Israel. But the book of Jubilees gives room to both Mosaic and Enochic traditions within the Sinaitic revelatory framework. What, then, should we make of such differences? / This question and related speculations were on the minds of scholars gathered from around the world at the fourth Enoch Seminar at Camaldoli, Italy, in July 2007. Four tendencies emerged from the discussion at the seminar. Some scholars claimed that Jubilees was a direct product of Enochic Judaism with subordinated Mosaic features. Some suggested that Jubilees was a conscious synthesis of Enochic and Mosaic tradition, yet remaining autonomous from both. Some asserted that Jubilees was essentially a Mosaic text with some Enochic influence. And others questioned the very existence of a gulf between Enochic and Mosaic traditions as competing forms of Judaism at the time of Jubilees. / Gabriele Boccaccini and Giovanni Ibba have carefully collected the countervailing views into this volume. What readers will find here is a lively debate among the most distinguished international specialists, together striving for a better understanding of a puzzling ancient document.
Encyclopaedia of Historical Metrology, Weights, and Measures
Author: Jan GyllenbokPublisher: Birkhäuser
ISBN: 3319575988
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 677
Book Description
This first of three volumes starts with a short introduction to historical metrology as a scientific discipline and goes on with an anthology of acient and modern measurement systems of all kind, scientific measures, units of time, weights, currencies etc. It concludes with an exhaustive list of references. Units of measurement are of vital importance in every civilization through history. Since the early ages, man has through necessity devised various measures to assist him in everyday life. They have enabled and continue to enable us to trade in commonly and equitably understood amounts, and to investigate, understand, and control the chemical, physical, and biological processes of the natural world. The essence of the work is an alphabetically ordered, comprehensive list of measurement nomenclature, units and scales. It provides an understanding of almost all quantitative expressions observed in all imaginable situations, including spelling variants and the abbreviations and symbols for units, and various acronyms used in metrology. It will be of use not only to historians of science and technology, but also to economic and social historians and should be in every major academic and national library as standard reference work on the topic.
Biblical Commentaries from the Canterbury School of Theodore and Hadrian
Author: Bernhard BischoffPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521330890
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
This is a substantially introduced and annotated first edition of a previously unknown Latin text, which throws light on the intellectual history of early medieval Europe.
Epiphanius of Cyprus
Author: Young Richard KimPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472119540
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Brings a balanced perspective to a controversial scholar of heresies