Coping with Versnel : a roundtable on religion and magic : in honour of the 80th birthday of Henk S. Versnel / edited by Kim Beerden and Frits Naerebout.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Versnel, H. S., honouree.

Beerden, Kim, editor.

Naerebout, F. G., editor.

Series:

Religions in the Graeco-Roman world ; v. 200.

Religions in the Graeco-Roman world, 0927-7633 ; volume 200

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Mediterranean Region--Religion--Historiography.

Mediterranean Region.

Rites and ceremonies--Mediterranean Region--History--To 1500.

Rites and ceremonies.

Mysteries, Religious--Greece--History--To 1500.

Mysteries, Religious.

Versnel, H. S--Knowledge and learning.

Versnel, H. S.

Learning and scholarship.

Religion--Historiography.

Greece.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

x, 390 pages : 1 portrait ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]

Language Note:

English; one contribution in German.

Summary:

"Henk Versnel's work on ancient religion has been seminal. For his 80th birthday, a group of scholars assembled to celebrate and analyze his oeuvre. What have been his most important insights? What will he bequeath to the 21st century? Specialists hold up to the light the main strands of Versnel's scholarship, and he reacts to their praise and critique. An introduction that seeks to contextualize this oeuvre, and a bibliography of Versnel's publications, round out the picture of a scholar who has put his stamp on the study of ancient religions and magical practices, and who has promoted the field in many ways, especially as the driving force behind Brill's flagship series Religion in the Graeco-Roman World, of which this fittingly is the 200th volume"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cognitive science of religion, and the work of Hank versus now / Jennifer Larson

"One must not ask questions such as these" : ancient and modern scholars on inconsistencies from Aristotle to Versnel / Caspar C. de Jonge

Divine metanymy : theology and rhetoric / Tim Whitmarsh

The history of myth and ritual / Robert A. Segal

Ttransitions, reversals, inconsistencies : H.S.Versnel on myth and ritual / Michael de Konaris

The typical and the outlier in ancient Greek cursing : prayers for justice, erotic curses and other important categories / Christopher A. Faraone

Ancient magic in a new key : refining an exotic discipline in the history of religions / David Frankfurter

My God! : religion as emotional experience in the Hellenistic world and the Roman East / Angelos Chaniotis

Jesus Christus als neue Alkestis und neuer Kodros : Das Sterben "für" andere Menschen bei Paulus und im paganen Kontext / Christina Eschner

Henotheism, a 'consistent' category of polytheism / Nicole Belayche

Foreword to an afterword / Henk S. Versnel

Response / Henk S. Versnel.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page 351-387) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Coping with Versnel

ISBN:

9789004538443

9004538445

OCLC:

1378430607