Ancient epistemologies / edited by Jan Dietrich, Annette Schellenberg-Lagler, and Thomas Wagner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dietrich, Jan, 1974- editor.

Schellenberg-Lagler, Annette, 1971- editor.

Wagner, Thomas, 1971- editor.

Series:

Orientalische Religionen in der Antike ; 1869-0513 58.

Orientalische Religionen in der Antike : Ägypten, Israel, Alter Orient = Oriental religions in antiquity : Egypt, Isreal, Ancient Near East, 1869-0513 ; 58

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knowledge, Theory of--Congresses.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Philosophy, Ancient--Congresses.

Philosophy, Ancient.

Knowledge, Theory of, in literature--Congresses.

Knowledge, Theory of, in literature.

Egyptian literature--History and criticism--Congresses.

Egyptian literature.

Philosophy, Comparative--Congresses.

Philosophy, Comparative.

Knowledge, Theory of (Religion)--Congresses.

Knowledge, Theory of (Religion).

Bible. Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc--Congresses.

Bible.

Physical Description:

x, 319 pages : illustrations (black & white) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, [2024]

Contents:

Ancient epistemologies: Some preliminary remarks on common features and local differences / Jan Dietrich

What is knowledge? A Baylonian answer / Marc Van de Mieroop

Epistemic things and epistemic infrastructures: Writing as an experimental system in ancient Mesopotamia / Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum

Cuneiform knowledge and natural knowledge / Francesca Rochberg

Reader's questions: Of the art of reading and pilgrimage in the 12th dynasty / Ludwig D. Morenz

Ancient epistemologies? "Neer did I know that which is not," on Egyptian onto-epistemology / Amr Et Hawary

"Would I had unknown phrases...not maxims of past speech, spoken by the ancestors": Tradition versus criticism in Egyptian wisdom literature and the Hebrew Bible / Nili Shupak

Hypotaxis versus parataxis / Karen Gloy

The epistemology of wisdom in ancient neoplatonism / Christoph Horn

"For the Lord gives wisdom" (Prov 2:6): God's involvement in the cognitive processes of humans according to the Hebrew Bible / Annette Schellenberg-Lagler

"Even though those who are wise claim to know, they cannot find it out" (Ecc 8:17): A pendulum of epistemological perspectives in Ecclesiastes, as contextualized in Greek culture / Katharine J. Dell

The relationship between Qoheleth's pessimistic anthropology and his skeptical epistemology / Mark Sneed

Gaining knowledge of eternity: Cognition processes in mourning rituals / Thomas Wagner

Ritual and pediatric epistemology in the Hebrew Bible / Dru Johnson

The deed-consequence-relation in the poetic part of the book of Job: General law, forward and backward principle, some logical aspects / Esther Heinrich-Ramhartier

"Come let us reason together" (Isa 1:18): Belief justification in the Hebrew Bible's religious language and the comparative-philosophical question of epistemological commensurability / Jaco Gericke.

Notes:

Proceedings of a conference held in 2022 at Wuppertal.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Other Format:

e-book version

ISBN:

9783161638664

3161638662

OCLC:

1451099787

Publisher Number:

90101362275