Encyclopedia of Religion

defined in terms of transformation from a condition of death to one of life. The transformation is elaborated in a structural an ...

Particular historical styles within one religion, while maintaining the temporal integrity of the figura, may differ in the inte ...

a most traditional presentation of classical themes common to all the Greek fathers who wrote on the spiritual life of asce- sis ...

An approach that is more clearly supported by the avail- able evidence suggests that the synagogue as a place for reli- gious ri ...

women (m. Megillah 2:4), recitation of the hallel psalms (t. Pesahim 10:8), eulogies (t. Megillah 2:18), public oaths (m. Shevuo ...

gogue, local realities were far more complex even in the most rabbinically oriented medieval and early modern com- munities. Arc ...

citations in Hebrew. Biblical themes in other synagogues in- clude David (Gaza), Daniel in the Lion’s Den (Na’aran and Khirbet S ...

Jerusalem-aligned wall of the synagogue and a platform for reading Scripture. In all periods of Jewish history, the physical str ...

ed into their surroundings, and the maximum use of glass brings nature into the sanctuary. Recent years have seen a turning away ...

tion) that can in turn be an antecedent for subsequent factual situations. The concept also contributes to a sociopsy- chologica ...

various components, as, for example, in Manichaeism or in some pseudo-Islamic sects (such as Ahl i Haqq, the Druze, the Yesids). ...

gration of cultures into a higher unity are better represented by the term synthesis, which in turn is to be understood as a com ...

ham, Isaac, and Jacob in the God of their fathers as well as belief in the Canaanite high god El. CONNECTIONS BETWEEN COMPLEX UN ...

This first instance of an international theocrasy preced- ed the many theocrasies of the Hellenistic age. Among these, the Alexa ...

leads to the goal more effectively than the others. This type of valuation has found a place in the philosophy of religion, for ...

nucleus of the gnostic doctrine of redemption. Central to the Gnostic concept of redemption was the idea of a redeemer who himse ...

BIBLIOGRAPHY Modern study of the topic was inaugurated by Richard Reitzen- stein and H. H. Schaeder in their classic Studien zum ...

was mainly used to describe the later stages of Greek and Roman religions, with their many imports from Near East- ern cultures ...

fect entire religious systems. Berner’s insistence on syncre- tism as a process, however, has become crucial; other schol- ars, ...

of divine personalities. A complex case is the Greek god Zeus. Linguistic and functional analysis has shown that Zeus has homolo ...