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Using a cognitive-functional linguistic framework and cross-linguistic research on discourse markers, Christopher J. Fresch investigates the use of five discourse markers in the early Koine Greek found in the documentary papyri of the third to first centuries BCE and the Greek translations of the Hebrew Bible. Through this analysis, Fresch proposes linguistically grounded descriptions for how each discourse marker guides readers in how they process and comprehend the text. Based on these descriptions, he examines the instances of these discourse markers in the Minor Prophets and how the translator used them to render the Hebrew text. Fresch presents a picture of a translator who selected discourse markers based on their own understanding of the structure, flow, and meaning of the underlying Hebrew text. Their use attests to a translator who was contextually aware and who desired to produce a translation in idiomatic Koine.

Greek language, Biblical --- Greek language, Hellenistic (300 B.C.-600 A.D.) --- Discourse markers --- Discourse analysis

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"Es gilt mittlerweile, gerade auch im Bereich der antiken und spätantiken Religionsgeschichte, als akademische Binsenweisheit, dass Grenzziehungen, die das Eigene eingrenzen und vom Anderen abgrenzen, einen zentralen Faktor religiöser Identitätskonstruktionen bilden. In diesem Zusammenhang wird allerdings kaum über die Bedeutung von Grenzüberschreitungen reflektiert, obwohl zahlreiche jüngere Publikationen zum frühen und spätantiken Christentum den Fokus auf Phänomene der Transgressivität (Gender, Körper, Jenseitsreisen usw.) legen. Dieser Sammelband verbindet nun beide Diskurse (zu religiöser Identität und zu Transgressivität), indem er anhand zahlreicher Beispiele der Frage nachgeht: Welche Rolle haben in den ersten Jahrhunderten Grenzüberschreitungen für die religiöse Identitätsbildung christlicher Gruppierungen und Individuen gespielt?"

Church history --- Taboo --- Transgression (Ethics) --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- Grenzüberschreitung. --- Frühchristentum. --- Theologie. --- Geschichte. --- Geschichte 30-600.

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A comprehensive survey of Syriac Christianity from its origins in Hellenistic and ancient Near Eastern cultures to the present Often referred to as the third main language of Christianity after Latin and Greek, Syriac remains a foundational classical, literary, and religious language throughout the world. Originating in Mesopotamia along the Roman and Parthian frontiers, it was never the language of a powerful state or ethnic group, but with the coming of Christianity it developed into a rich religious and cultural tradition. At the same time that Christianity was making its way through Europe, Syriac missionaries were founding churches from the Mediterranean coast to Persia, converting the Turkic tribes of Central Asia, and building communities in India and China. This comprehensive work tells the underexplored story of the Syriac world over three thousand years, from its pre-Christian roots in the Aramaic tribes and the ancient Near East to its vibrant expressions in modern diaspora churches. Enhanced with beautiful images, songs, poems, and important primary source texts, this book shows the importance of Syriac history, theology, and literature in the twenty-first century.

Syriac Christians. --- Church of the East --- Church of the East --- History. --- 30-600 --- Syria

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This treatise refutes the assumption that early Christians were opposed in principle to visual images and thus did not produce art. It shows that once Christians acquired legal status and were able to own property and places of worship, they started to produce art as decoration.

Art, Early Christian. --- Christian art and symbolism --- Christianity and culture --- Fathers of the church. --- God (Christianity) --- Christianity --- Trinity --- Church fathers --- Patristics --- Philosophy, Patristic --- Christians --- Early Christian art --- History --- Knowableness --- History of doctrines --- To 500 --- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 A.D. --- God --- Art [Early Christian ] --- Fathers of the church --- Christianity and culture - History - Early church, ca. 30-600. --- God - Knowableness - History of doctrines - Early church, ca. 30-600. --- Christian art and symbolism - To 500 --- Christianity and culture - History - Early church, ca 30-600 --- Art, Early Christian --- God - - History of doctrines - - Knowableness - - Early church, ca. 30-600 --- -Fathers of the church --- -Art, Early Christian.

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This book focuses on the contribution of epithets and compound denominations to the definition of the religious figure of sovereigns and other political leaders in the Hellenistic world, from Philip II and Alexander III to Kleopatra VII and the beginning of the Roman Principate.Questions and methodologies related to the political history of the Hellenistic Mediterranean are combined with the results of recent studies in the functioning of the Greek epicletic system to provide a fresh reassessment of the entanglement between honorific practices and the religious life of Hellenistic communities, from continental Greece to Egypt, from Syracuse to Bactria. Reconsidering the relationships between honours and religion also implies reversing the question of the influence of Greek religion on Hellenistic ruler cults to explore how a new tradition of ritual encounters between human power and the divine sphere may have impacted post-classical developments in Greek polytheism.

Greek language, Hellenistic (300 B.C.-600 A.D.) --- Names, Greek --- Gods, Greek --- Honorific --- Etymology --- Names --- Religious aspects --- Greece --- Mediterranean Region --- Kings and rulers --- Religious aspects.