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Damascius' Philosophy of Time
Häftad, 2023
327 kr
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The late Platonist philosopher Damascius both reassumed and rejuvenated the rich and long-established Greek thinking about time. In distinguishing between different perceptions of time, by Plato, Aristotle and his Neoplatonist predecessors, Damascius offered novel perspectives, which can be seen as …
Time and Soul
From Aristotle to St. Augustine
Häftad, 2022
292 kr
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Can time exist independently of consciousness? In antiquity this question was often framed as an enquiry into the relationship of time and soul. Aristotle cautiously suggested that time could not exist without a soul that is counting it. This proposal was controversially debated among his …
Subjektive und objektive Zeit
Aristoteles und die moderne Zeit-Theorie
Av Wolfgang Detel, Einstein Center Chronoi
Häftad, 2021
347 kr
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Die Unterscheidung zwischen subjektiver und objektiver Zeit stellt in modernen Zeit-Theorien einen scharfen Dualismus dar, der das gegenwärtige Denken über Zeit tief prägt. Aus dieser Sicht gilt es als bislang unüberwindliches Problem, eine einheitliche Theorie der Zeit zu entwickeln, die eine …
Time for the Ancients
Measurement, Theory, Experience
Av P. N. Singer
Häftad, 2022
499 kr
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The book presents the author's latest research on ancient perceptions of time; it centres on medical discussions, especially of the doctor-philosopher Galen, while also contextualizing his work within Graeco-Roman evidence and discussions – archaeological, medical, technological, philosophical, …
Aber die Zeit fürchtet die Pyramiden
Die Wissenschaften vom Alten Orient und die zeitliche Dimension von Kulturgeschichte
Häftad, 2022
614 kr
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Die zeitliche Dimension von Kulturgeschichte wurde lange Zeit durch die Schilderungen der Bibel, ergänzt um die Darstellung klassischer Autoren bestimmt. Mit dem frühneuzeitlichen Aufkommen der Naturwissenschaften bildete sich allmählich ein alternatives Paradigma heraus, das religiöse Gewissheiten …
End of Time
Constructions of Time in Apocalyptic Imagination
Av Emmanouela Grypeou, Stefanie Rabe
Häftad, 2027
396 kr
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A thematic exploration of different concepts of time is a significant yet overlooked aspect of apocalyptic literature. The purpose of this collection of essays is to demonstrate the varied ways in which time is portrayed in Rabbinic and Christian texts pertaining to the end of the world. The essays …
Time and Revelation in the Vision of Daniel
From the St. Petersburg Collection
Häftad, 2026
439 kr
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The book presents a newly discovered Vision of Daniel manuscript at the National Library of Russia, St. Petersburg. Probably composed in northern Syria or southeastern Anatolia in the 9th century CE, the text reflects an intersection of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim thought in an era of theological …
Table des rois
Contribution à l’histoire textuelle des ›Tables faciles‹ de Ptolémée
Häftad, 2023
548 kr
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How could ancient astronomers accurately calculate celestial phenomena on the scale of several centuries? The Table of Kings is a simple list of rulers with the duration of their reigns, which allowed Ptolemy, an Alexandrian astronomer, to have a count of the years that had passed since the …
Zwiegespräche über die Zeit
Dialoge in der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften aus Anlass des sechzigsten Geburtstags von Christoph Markschies
Häftad, 2023
329 kr
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Die verschiedenen fachwissenschaftlichen Gesprächsgänge über Zeit-Konzepte, Zeit-Vorstellungen und Zeit-Empfindungen werden normalerweise eher getrennt geführt. Historiographische Einsichten und naturwissenschaftliche Theoriebildungen werden selten ins Gespräch gebracht. Deswegen wurde in der …
Temporality of Festivals
Approaches to Festive Time in Ancient Babylon, Greece, Rome, and Medieval China
Av Anke Walter
Häftad, 2024
374 kr
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How can time become festive? How do festivals manage to make time ‘special’, to mark out a certain day or days, to distinguish them from ‘normal’, everyday time, and to fill them with meaning? And how can we reconstruct what festive time looked like in the past and what people thought about it? …
Thebaid in Times of Crisis
Revolt and Response in Ptolemaic Egypt
Häftad, 2025
586 kr
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This collective volume explores societal crises in Hellenistic Egypt, focussing regionally on the Thebaid, from small-scale insurgencies to full-fledged secession. As a result of an international conference held at the Freie Universität Berlin (May 2-4, 2019), the presented case studies ask how …
(A)synchronic (Re)actions
Crises and Their Perception in Hittite History
Häftad, 2025
334 kr
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This book aims to study the perception of crises in Hittite Anatolia (1650–1180 BCE) from different perspectives: the one of the Hittites, the one of the neighboring polities, and ours as historians. Two concepts will be discussed in the introduction of the book: crisis and (a)synchronicity. The …
Aspects of Time in Jewish and Christian Exegesis
Av Maren R. Niehoff, Christoph Markschies
Häftad, 2026
334 kr
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This collection of articles investigates notions of time in ancient Jewish and Christian Bible interpretation, a genre which is not intrinsically connected with the calculation of time, but enters the debates about time as part of a broader negotiation of religious boundaries. An international team …
Time in Byzantine Apocalyptica
Av András Kraft
Häftad, 2026
334 kr
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Apocalyptic narratives construct histories of the future which pertain either to this-worldly political events or otherworldly post-mortem conditions. While visions of the afterlife generally describe a world in atemporal stagnation, political prophecies anticipate prospective events that are …
Temporale Beziehungen
Facetten Des Zeitlichen in Der Kunst Zwischen Spätantike Und Mittelalter
Häftad, 2026
367 kr
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Synchronizing the Body in Ancient Medicine and Philosophy
Av Giouli Korobili, Kassandra J. Miller m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
441 kr
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Ancient physicians and philosophers explored how different temporal patterns interacted and overlapped. They were deeply concerned with the meaning of simultaneous events—those moments when natural, bodily, or social processes coincided in ways they considered significant. While Greek and Latin …
Time Perception and the Sense of Sight in Islamic Traditions
Häftad, 2026
374 kr
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What does it mean to see time passing? This volume argues that the perception of time is inseparable from acts of seeing and the cultural frameworks that direct the gaze. While much has been written on Islamic notions of time or vision separately, their intersection has rarely been explored. …
Synchronous Late Iron Age?
Testing Key Types to Synchronise Przeworsk, Jastorf and La Tène
Av Piotr Łuczkiewicz, Michael Meyer m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
582 kr
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In order to track and assess historical processes and cultural dynamics across large areas, the respective chronologies must be reliably correlated. In the late Iron Age in Central Europe, the approaches sometimes diverge widely, a problem that is particularly relevant for the synchronisation of …
Chronoi – Topoi
Concepts of Time and Space as Literary Devices in Second Temple Judaism
Av Alexandra Grund-Wittenberg, Martina Kepper
Häftad, 2026
516 kr
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Jewish authoritative writings of the Second temple Period had to adopt to total different religious as well as political circumstances their adressees had to face. Inspired by the idea of Paul Kosmin, that the imposture of a total new imperial time regime by the Seleucid rulers provoked …
Entangled Temporalities in Mari
How the Lost City of the Euphrates Became a Lost Site
Häftad, 2026
569 kr
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Entangled Temporalities in Mari raises the question of the close interweaving between field research and the construction of a historical object, one of the most famous city-states of the sumero-akkadian world. Working on this site, which has been severely damaged by the Syrian conflict, means …
Schooldays and Hours
The Temporality of Learning to Write in Mesopotamia
Av Paul Delnero
Häftad, 2026
418 kr
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When the question of time is treated in studies of ancient Mesopotamia, the focus tends to be on long periods of time that extend over decades, centuries, and even millennia. This is evident both in the historical and archaeological division of time into periods, as well as in studies of cultural …
Synchronising Time and Society in Babylonia
Häftad, 2026
565 kr
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The volume examines the central role of time in Babylonian society, not merely as an astronomical phenomenon but as a tool for political, economic, and social organization. It provides an overview of Mesopotamian theories and instruments for measuring time, from sundials and water clocks to …
Avian Iconography and Awareness of the Natural Calendar in Ancient Egypt
Häftad, 2026
418 kr
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Ancient Egyptians employed three calendrical systems—civil (365 days), natural (environmental phenomena) and lunar—yet the relationship between administrative time-reckoning and ecological awareness in funerary iconography merits closer examination. Whilst elites employed the civil calendar for …
Das Erfassen Von Zeit Im Kontext Der Vergangenheit
Zu Den Anfängen Der Hethitischen Historischen Erzählungen
Av Jörg Klinger
Häftad, 2025
344 kr
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Time of Textiles in Ancient Greece
Häftad, 2025
334 kr
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Textiles accompany us throughout our lives, au fil du temps, from the cradle to the grave. Aspects of time, seasons and chronology play an important role when exploring textiles and clothes in antiquity. The time of textiles appears highly gendered, embodied, tangible, and concrete. Textiles follow …
Modern Hammurapi
An Old Babylonian King in Imperial Germany
Häftad, 2025
387 kr
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The discovery of the 'Code of Hammurapi' in 1902 sparked widespread discussion in Imperial Germany and attracted considerable attention beyond the academic sphere. For conservative Christian and Jewish theologians, the discovery of the Old Babylonian law appeared to challenge the authenticity of …
Time and History in Denis Pétau
Philosophy, Science, and Religion in Early Modern France
Häftad, 2025
334 kr
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This book offers the first comprehensive presentation and analysis of the innovative theory of time advanced by early modern French scholar, Denis Pétau.Denis Pétau (1583–1652) was the model of an early modern erudite. Proudly Catholic, the Jesuit scholar was a keen participant in the scientific …
Conceptions of Cyclicity in Babylonian and Greco-Roman Scholarship
Häftad, 2025
334 kr
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What did ancient Mesopotamian, Greek, and Roman scholars know about the cyclicity of astronomical phenomena, how did they conceptualize cyclicity, and which other phenomena did they consider to be cyclical? This study explores astronomical, astrological, and other scholarly sources, including …
