Light against darkness : dualism in ancient Mediterranean religion and the contemporary world / / Armin Lange ... [et al.] (ed.).

• Superior document: Journal of ancient Judaism. Supplements ; v. 2
• Author: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Department of Religious Studies.
• TeilnehmendeR: Lange, Armin.; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Department of Religious Studies.; Duke University. Department of Religion.
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Journal of ancient Judaism. Supplements ; v. 2.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (369 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Hauptbeschreibung Light Against Darkness is comprised of articles that put on display the power and pervasiveness of dualistic thought. Dualism has proved a potent cultural tool for clarifying and ordering reality. Particularly in times of social stress and psychological insecurity, it can offer a valuable conceptual grid that provides orientation to the world and a clear sense of identity. At the same time, though, there are important questions to be asked about the social effects of binary thinking. As history amply illustrates, dualistic notions can readily be deployed to legitim

Table of Contents

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Body; Introduction; P. Kyle McCarter, jr. Dualism in Antiquity; Sydney H. AuFrère Dualism and Focalization in Alexandrian Religious Thought in Egypt at the Beginning of the Ptolemaic Period: Manetho of Sebennytos and the Argive Myth .; Prods Oktor Skjærvø Zoroastrian Dualism.; Appendix: The Sources of Zoroastrianism ..; Eric M. Meyers From Myth to Apocalyptic: Dualism in the Hebrew Bible; Patrick Lee Miller Greek Philosophical Dualism

Loren T. Stuckenbruck The Interiorization of Dualism within the Human Being in Second Temple Judaism: the Treatise of the Two Spirits (1QS III: 13-IV: 26) in its tradition-historical contextPhilip S. Alexander The Dualism of Heaven and Earth in early Jewish Literature and its Implications; Fred L. Horton Dualism in the New Testament: a Surprising Rhetoric and a Rhetoric of Surprise; Zlatko Pleše Gnostic Dualism; Werner Sundermann What has come down to us from Manicheism?; with an Appendix by Prods Oktor Skjærvø; Piet F. M. Fontaine What is Dualism, and what is it not?

Kalman P. Bland Human-Animal Dualism in Modernity and Premodern Jewish ThoughtRodney S. Sadler jr. Exegesis in Black and White: Dualism in 19TH and early 20TH Century African American Biblical Hermeneutics; Yaakov Ariel "You must choose! The Prince of Peace or the Prince of Darkness": Evangelical Beliefs and American Dualism at the turn of the twenty-first Century; Michael A. Rosenthal Spinoza's Monism and Jewish Philosophy; Randall Styers Displacements and Proliferations: Moves beyond Dualism in Contemporary Continental Thought; William G. Lycan Recent Naturalistic Dualisms; Index

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