LEADER 05350oam 2200865 c 450 001 9910315227803321 005 20260102090118.0 010 $a9783837642360 010 $a3837642364 024 7 $a10.14361/9783839442364 035 $a(CKB)4100000007824023 035 $a(OAPEN)1004737 035 $a(DE-B1597)500960 035 $a(OCoLC)1100463755 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783839442364 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6637553 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6637553 035 $a(transcript Verlag)9783839442364 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6955990 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6955990 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/38947 035 $a(ScCtBLL)39054709-8a48-411e-888d-c295d4f0abd5 035 $a(Perlego)1463596 035 $a(oapen)doab38947 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007824023 100 $a20260102d2019 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $auuuuu---auuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aFinding, Inheriting or Borrowing?$eThe Construction and Transfer of Knowledge in Antiquity and the Middle Ages$fJochen Althoff, Dominik Berrens, Tanja Pommerening 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBielefeld$ctranscript Verlag$d2019 215 $a1 online resource (408) 225 0 $aMainzer Historische Kulturwissenschaften 311 08$a9783839442364 311 08$a3839442362 327 $aFrontmatter 1 CONTENT 5 Preface and Acknowledgements 9 The Construction and Transfer of Knowledge in the Pre-Modern Era 13 Transmitting Symbolic Concepts from the Perspective of Cultural Cognition - The Acquisition and Transfer of Folk-biological Knowledge 41 The Transfer of Knowledge from Mesopotamia to Egypt 71 Epistemology in the Biblical Tradition - Judean Knowledge-Building, Scribal Craftsmanship, and Scribal Culture 99 Bodies of Texts, Bodies of Tradition - Medical Expertise and Knowledge of the Body among Rabbinic Jews in Late Antiquity 123 The Reception and Rejection of "Foreign" Astronomical Knowledge in Byzantium 167 "He assigned Him as the Jewel of the night" - The Knowledge of the Moon in Mesopotamian Texts of the Late Second and First Millennia BCE 187 Shapeshifter - Knowledge of the Moon in Graeco-Roman Egypt 213 Concepts Concerning the Moon in Plutarch's De facie in orbe lunae - Found, Inherited, or Borrowed Ideas 253 Conclusion - Of Moon and Men: Observations about the Knowledge of the Moon in Antiquity 279 Know Your Sources Before You Argue - Minucius Felix and Augustine of Hippo on the Conflagration 289 The Idea of an Apocalyptic Fire According to the Old and Middle Iranian Sources 313 Poets, Prophets, and Philosophers - The End of the World According to Otto von Freising 343 The Ragnark Myth in Scandinavia - Finding, Inheriting, and Borrowing 365 Conclusion - The End of the World in Fire 385 About the Authors 391 Authors and Texts Cited 395 General index 403 330 $aSince the dawn of humanity, people have developed concepts about themselves and the natural world in which they live. This volume aims at investigating the construction and transfer of such concepts between and within various ancient and medieval cultures. The single contributions try to answer questions concerning the sources of knowledge, the strategies of transfer and legitimation as well as the conceptual changes over time and space. After a comprehensive introduction, the volume is divided into three parts: The contributions of the first section treat various theoretical and methodological aspects. Two additional thematic sections deal with a special field of knowledge, i.e. concepts of the moon and of the end of the world in fire. 330 1 $a»The book will mainly appeal to intellectual historians of antiquity, who will appreciate the case studies of ancient knowledge.« 410 0$aMainzer Historische Kulturwissenschaften 517 2 $aAlthoff et al. (eds.), Finding, Inheriting or Borrowing?$eThe Construction and Transfer of Knowledge in Antiquity and the Middle Ages 606 $aAntiquity 606 $aMiddle Ages 606 $aKnowledge Transfer 606 $aUniversals 606 $aCultural History 606 $aHistory of Astronomy 606 $aEschatology 606 $aAncient History 606 $aMedieval History 606 $aHistory 615 4$aAntiquity 615 4$aMiddle Ages 615 4$aKnowledge Transfer 615 4$aUniversals 615 4$aCultural History 615 4$aHistory of Astronomy 615 4$aEschatology 615 4$aAncient History 615 4$aMedieval History 615 4$aHistory 676 $a303.48/30902 702 $aAlthoff$b Jochen$p

Jochen Althoff, Universität Mainz, Deutschland

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Dominik Berrens, Universität Innsbruck, Österreich

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Tanja Pommerening, Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Deutschland

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