The Idea Of Universal History From Hellenistic Philosophy To Early Christian Historiography

Author : Raoul Mortley
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN 13 : 9780773487871
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Idea of Universal History from Hellenistic Philosophy to Early Christian Historiography written by Raoul Mortley and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bloomsbury Publishing
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472519809
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historiae Mundi written by Bloomsbury Publishing and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-11-20 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Universal History" is a type of history that attempts to explain the world beyond the immediate surroundings of the author. It reflects a desire to synthesise the mass of written and oral knowledge about the past and to introduce a systematic interpretation. The purpose of this collection is to re-examine the notion of Universal Historiography with a focus on its appearance in the Greek and Roman world and on the legacy that ancient authors offered to later generations. Fifteen new essays by a diverse set of international scholars tackle questions of definition, and illustrate the diversity of its forms, structures, themes and analyses. The collection explores the historical and intellectual contexts which gave rise to universalist thought, and its reputation and reception in antiquity and beyond. This book will appeal to those interested in Graeco-Roman historiography, and those with an interest in the Arabic, Early Christian and modern reception of ancient historiography.

Author : Raoul Mortley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780889469761
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Idea of Universal History from Hellinistic [sic] Philosophy to Early Christian Historiography written by Raoul Mortley and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gerald A. Press
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773563970
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Development of the Idea of History in Antiquity written by Gerald A. Press and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2003-09-10 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extensive scholarly literature, written in the past century holds that in ancient Greek and Roman thought history is understood as circular and repetitive - a consequence of their anti-temporal metaphysics - in contrast with Judaeo-Christian thought, which sees history as linear and unique - a consequence of their messianic and hence radically temporal theology. Gerald Press presents a more general view - that the Graeco-Roman and Judaeo-Christian cultures were fundamentally alien and opposed cultural forces and that, therefore, Christianity's victory over paganism included the replacement or supersession of one intellectual world by another - and then shows that, contrary to this view, there was substantial continuity between "pagan" and Christian ideas of history in antiquity, rather than a striking opposition between cyclic and linear patterns. He finds that the foundation of the Christian view of history as goal-directed lies in the rhetorical rather than the theological motives of early Christian writers.

Author : Raoul Mortley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780889469761
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Idea of Universal History from Hellinistic [sic] Philosophy to Early Christian Historiography written by Raoul Mortley and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : J.M. Alonso-Núnez
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004494219
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Idea of Universal History in Greece written by J.M. Alonso-Núnez and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-18 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an expanded version of a lecture given in the Departments of History and Classics at Harvard in 1998. Starting from a methodological point of view, this book show the evolution of the idea of world history through the works of Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Ctesias, Ephorus, Polybius and others up to the historians of the Augustan epoch.

Author : Brett Bowden
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319524100
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Strange Persistence of Universal History in Political Thought written by Brett Bowden and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-03-24 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores and explains the reasons why the idea of universal history, a form of teleological history which holds that all peoples are travelling along the same path and destined to end at the same point, persists in political thought. Prominent in Western political thought since the middle of the eighteenth century, the idea of universal history holds that all peoples can be situated in the narrative of history on a continuum between a start and an end point, between the savage state of nature and civilized modernity. Despite various critiques, the underlying teleological principle still prevails in much contemporary thinking and policy planning, including post-conflict peace-building and development theory and practice. Anathema to contemporary ideals of pluralism and multiculturalism, universal history means that not everyone gets to write their own story, only a privileged few. For the rest, history and future are taken out of their hands, subsumed and assimilated into other people’s narrative.

Author : David P. Moessner
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1563382938
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jesus and the Heritage of Israel written by David P. Moessner and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1999-11-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventeen leading international scholars collaborate in forming an emerging new consensus at the dawn of the millenium that Luke is the interpreter of Israel.

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Publisher : Editoriale Jaca Book
ISBN 13 : 9788816720350
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Storia della storiografia written by and published by Editoriale Jaca Book. This book was released on 1999 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : M. Hughes-Warrington
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230523404
Total Pages : 286 pages
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Download or read book Palgrave Advances in World Histories written by M. Hughes-Warrington and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-10-14 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World histories vary widely in shape, structure, and range in space and time. In Palgrave Advances in World Histories, ten leading world historians examine the many forms of world history writing, offering an accessible, engaging and comprehensive overview of what it is and what world historians do. This work is a valuable introduction to those new to the field, but will also stimulate discussion, debate and reflection.