Ancient Epistemologies

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-16-163866-4
Verlag: Mohr Siebeck

Buch, Englisch, Band 58, 318 Seiten, Format (B × H): 240 mm x 170 mm, Gewicht: 719 g

Reihe: Orientalische Religionen in der Antike

Reflection on knowledge is often assumed to have emerged with Greek philosophy. Earlier and contemporary modes of thinking in the ancient Near East, including ancient Israel, are assumed to be archaic and often left out of the picture. Against this view, the contributors of this volume aim to reconstruct the ancient epistemologies, the "paradigms", "discourses", and "episteme", that developed in the ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean region and formed the conditions for developing more distinct forms of cultural and scientific knowledge. In doing this, they include the search for second order thinking as part of ancient epistemologies: the capability to think about thinking, to adopt a theoretical attitude that involves the ability to reflect and self-reflect, to criticize and transcend the given, and to anticipate new realms by thinking outside the box. The ancient Near Eastern cultures were not characterized by a 'lukewarm mind' but they were capable, in their own cultural-specific ways, of unfolding epistemologies that included forms of second order thinking that may well be termed 'early philosophy'.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dietrich, Jan

Schellenberg-Lagler, Annette

Wagner, Thomas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte Religionen der Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte Religion des alten Ägyptens
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Altes Testament: Exegese, Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien

Über Autor(innen)

Wagner, Thomas
Born 1971; 2002 Dissertation; 2011 Habilitation; 2000-03 Assistant Vicar at the Chair of Old Testament and Biblical Archaeology at the Protestant University of Wuppertal; 2004-11 Research Assistant at University of Wuppertal; 2013-21 Academic Councillor at the University of Wuppertal; Senior Academic Councillor at the University of Wuppertal.

Dietrich, Jan
Born 1974; Professor of Old Testament Literature and Religious History at the University of Bonn.

Schellenberg-Lagler, Annette
Born 1971; 2002 Dissertation; 2011 Habilitation; 2007-15 Assistant/Associate Professor of Old Testament at San Francisco Theological Seminary and the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley; Professor of Old Testament Studies at the University of Vienna.