| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 556 pages) |
| Series |
SUNY series in Near Eastern studies |
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SUNY series in Near Eastern studies.
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| Contents |
Introduction: The axial age breakthroughs -- their characteristics and origins / S.N. Eisenstadt -- The emergence of second-order thinking in classical Greece / Yehuda Elkana -- The emergence of an autonomous intelligence among the Greeks / Christian Meier -- Dynamics of the Greek breakthrough: the dialogue between philosophy and religion / S.C. Humphreys -- The meaning of the word [body] in the axial age: an interpretation of Plato's Cratylus 400C / R. Ferwerda -- The axial age breakthrough in ancient Israel / S.N. Eisenstadt -- Myth and reality in ancient Israel / Benjamin Uffenheimer -- The protest against imperialism in ancient Israelite prophecy / Moshe Weinfeld -- On self-consciousness in Mesopotamia / Peter Machinist -- Monarchy and the elite in Assyria and Babylonia: the question of royal accountability / Hayim Tadmor -- Eschatology, remythologization, and cosmic aporia / Michael E. Stone -- Old wine and new bottles: on patristic soteriology and Rabbinic Judaism / Gredaliahu G. Stroumsa -- The role of Christianity in the depolitization of the Roman Empire / Hans G. Kippenberg -- Architects of competing transcendental visions in late antiquity / G.W. Bowersock -- Historical conditions of the emergence and crystallization of the Confucian System / Cho-Yun Hsu -- Was there a transcendental breakthrough in China? / Mark Elvin -- The structure and function of the Confucian intellectual in Ancient China / Tu Wei-Ming -- The historical background of India's Axial Age / Hermann Kulke -- Ritual, revelation, and the Axial Age / J.C. Heesterman -- Aśvatthāman and Bṛhannaḍā: Brahmin and Kingly Paradigms in the Sanskrit epic / David Shulman -- Some observations on the place of intellectuals in Max Weber's sociology, with special reference to Hinduism / Edward Shils -- The reflexive and institutional achievements of early Buddhism / Stanley J. Tambiah -- The emergence of Islamic civilisation / Michael Cook |
| Notes |
"Papers presented ... in a conference on the origins and diversity of axial age civilizations--the first of three conferences ... sponsored by the Werner-Reimer Stiftung at Bad Homburg, the Truman Research Institute, and the Van Leer Jerusalem Foundation ... January 4-8, 1983, at the seat of the Werner-Reimer Stiftung at Bad Homburg"--Preface |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 485-556) |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Civilization, Ancient.
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Comparative civilization.
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Civilization, Classical.
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
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Civilization, Classical
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Civilization, Ancient
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Comparative civilization
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Eisenstadt, S. N. (Shmuel Noah), 1923-2010.
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Werner-Reimers-Stiftung.
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Makhon le-meḥḳar ʻal shem Heri S. Ṭruman.
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Mosad Ṿan Lir bi-Yerushalayim.
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| ISBN |
0585063478 |
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9780585063478 |
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088706096X |
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9780887060960 |
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0887060943 |
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9780887060946 |
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1438401949 |
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9781438401942 |
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