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UNINA9910457590503321 |
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Religion and the self in antiquity [[electronic resource] /] / edited by David Brakke, Michael L. Satlow, Steven Weitzman |
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Bloomington, IN, : Indiana University Press, c2005 |
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9786612072680 |
1-282-07268-4 |
0-253-11171-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (281 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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BrakkeDavid |
SatlowMichael L |
WeitzmanSteven <1965-> |
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Self - Religious aspects - History - To 1500 |
Self - Mediterranean Region - History - To 1500 |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Shifting selves in late antiquity / Patricia Cox Miller -- The search for the elusive self in texts of the Hebrew Bible / Saul M. Olyan -- The slave self / J. Albert Harrill -- Prayer of the queen : Esther's religious self in the Septuagint / Esther Menn -- Giving for a return : Jewish votive offerings in late antiquity / Michael L. Satlow -- The self in Artemidorus' interpretation of dreams / Peter T. Struck -- Sensory reform in Deuteronomy / Steven Weitzman -- Locating the sensing body : perception and religious identity in late antiquity / Susan Ashbrook Harvey -- Dialogue and deliberation : the sensory self in the hymns of Romanos the Melodist / Georgia Frank -- From master of wisdom to spiritual master in late antiquity / Guy G. Stroumsa -- The beastly body in rabbinic self-formation / Jonathan Schofer -- Making public the monastic life : reading the self in Evagrius Ponticus' talking back / David Brakke -- The student self in late antiquity / Edward Watts. |
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Many recent studies have argued that the self is a modern invention, a concept developed in the last three centuries. Religion and the Self in |
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Antiquity challenges that idea by presenting a series of studies that explore the origins, formation, and limits of the self within the religions of the ancient Mediterranean world. Drawing on recent work on the body, gender, sexuality, the anthropology of the senses, and power, contributors make a strong case that the history of the self does indeed begin in an |
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UNINA9910788847603321 |
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Bowman Douglas <1965-> |
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q-difference operators, orthogonal polynomials, and symmetric expansions / / Douglas Bowman |
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Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , 2002 |
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1 online resource (73 p.) |
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Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, , 0065-9266 ; ; number 757 |
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q-series |
Difference operators |
Hypergeometric functions |
Orthogonal polynomials |
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Note generali |
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"Volume 159, number 757 (fourth of 5 numbers)." |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""Contents""; ""Chapter 1. Introduction and preliminaries""; ""1.1. q-Symmetric polynomials and the q-multinomial""; ""1.2. q-Difference operators""; ""1.3. Orthogonal polynomials""; ""1.4. The symmetric functions Î?[sub(m)]""; ""1.5. Further notation, conventions and base inversion""; ""Chapter 2. New results and connections with current research""; ""2.1. Identification of Î?[sub(4)] as q-hypergeometric""; ""2.2. Symmetry creating operators""; ""2.3. Rogers's paper and orthogonal polynomials""; ""2.4. Synthesis: The continuous q-ultraspherical polynomials"" |
""2.5. Convergence criteria for operator theorems""""2.6. A fascinating phenomenon""; ""2.7. Operator theorems and q-Heisenberg algebras""; |
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""Chapter 3. Vector operator identities and simple applications""; ""3.1. A new operator theorem""; ""3.2. Applications to q-series""; ""3.3. A vector q-Leibniz rule""; ""3.4. Further operator theorems and simple applications""; ""3.5. Conclusion""; ""Bibliography"" |
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