LEADER 05185nam 2200817 450 001 996309242803316 005 20231110221119.0 010 $a3-8376-4236-4 024 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(EXLCZ)994100000007824023 100 $a20221125d2019 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 (editors) 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBielefeld, Germany$ctranscript Verlag$d2019 210 1$aBielefeld, Germany :$cTranscript,$d[2019] 210 4$d©2019 215 $a1 online resource (408) 225 0 $aMainzer Historische Kulturwissenschaften$v39 311 $a3-8394-4236-2 327 $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 $a»The book will mainly appeal to intellectual historians of antiquity, who will appreciate the case studies of ancient knowledge.« T. Farmer, Choice, 57/8 (2020) 410 0$aMainzer Historische Kulturwissenschaften 606 $aTechnology and civilization$vCongresses 606 $aCivilization$xHistory$vCongresses 606 $aKnowledge, Theory of$xHistory$vCongresses 606 $aTechnology transfer$xHistory$vCongresses 610 $aAntiquity, Middle Ages 610 $aKnowledge Transfer 610 $aUniversals 610 $aCultural History 610 $aHistory of Astronomy 610 $aEschatology 610 $aAncient History 610 $aMedieval History 610 $aHistory 615 0$aTechnology and civilization 615 0$aCivilization$xHistory 615 0$aKnowledge, Theory of$xHistory 615 0$aTechnology transfer$xHistory 676 $a303.48/30902 700 $aAlthoff$b Jochen$4edt$0204907 702 $aBerrens$b Dominik$4edt 702 $aPommerening$b Tanja$4edt 702 $aAlthoff$b Jochen$4oth 702 $aBerrens$b Dominik$4oth 702 $aPommerening$b Tanja$4oth 712 02$aDeutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)$4fnd$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/fnd 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996309242803316 996 $aFinding, inheriting or borrowing$93587752 997 $aUNISA