Perhaps of interest.
Best,
Roberto
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From: Jack Sasson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 7:58 PM
Subject: [agade] eBOOKS: "Esoteric Knowledge in Antiquity" (Max Planck
Preprint 454)
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From Mark Geller <[log in to unmask]>:
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The latest Preprint of the Max Planck Institut für
Wissenschaftsgeschichte has just appeared and can be downloaded for
free at
<http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/Preprints/P454.PDF>.
Paper copies are also available for free upon request.
PREPRINT 454
TOPOI - Dahlem Seminar for the History of Ancient Sciences Vol. II
Klaus Geus and Mark Geller (eds.)
Esoteric Knowledge in Antiquity
The table of contents is:
Chapter 1: Esoteric Knowledge in Antiquity - Some Thoughts -- Mark
Geller / Klaus Geus
Chapter 2: Secret of Extispicy Revealed -- Netanel Anor
Chapter 3: Scenes with Two Bes Figures from Nimrud and the Second Step
of Bes Toward Globalisation -- Adrienn Orosz
Chapter 4: Near Eastern origins of Graeco-Egyptian Alchemy -- Matteo
Martelli / Maddalena Rumor
Chapter 5: Traum und Raum in den Onesikritika des Artemidoros von
Daldis -- Gregor Weber
Chapter 6: On the Use and Abuse of Philosophy for Life: John
Chrysostom's Paradoxical View of Knowledge -- Jan R. Stenger
Chapter 7: Esoterisches Wissen im Platonismus und in der christlichen
Gnosis -- Christoph Markschies
Chapter 8: Priesterliches Kultwissen in den philensischen Graffiti des
4. und 5. Jahrhunderts n. Chr. -- Jan Moje
Chapter 9: Ein syrischer Hermes? Anmerkungen zu esoterischen
Traditionen im syrischen Medizinbuch -- Stefanie Rudolf
Chapter 10: Self-Knowledge, Illumination and Natural Magic: Some Notes
on Picodella Mirandola's Esotericism and Its Ancient Sources -- Adrian
Pirtea
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