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 v...

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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