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168 v. Chr. griff der Seleukide Antiochos IV. in den Kult von Jerusalem ein. Gegen diese Manahmen formierte sich unter den Hasmonaern eine Erhebung, die zur Wiederherstellung des Kultes, zur Etablierung der Hasmonaer als Hohepriester und zur Unabhangigkeit Judaas fuhrte. Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht Ursachen, Entwicklung und Folgen der hasmonaischen Erhebung und fasst sie als historischen Prozess. Die kritische Forschung hat sich seit ihren Anfangen um ein tieferes Verstandnis der Erhebung bemuht. Aufgrund der schwierigen Quellenlage ist aber in kaum einem Punkt Konsens erzielt worden: Man suchte entweder in der seleukidischen oder judaischen Vorgeschichte nach Erklarungen fur Kulteingriffe, hat diese entweder in langfristige Entwicklungen eingeordnet oder kontingente Geschehnisse betont und hat die Motive der historischen Akteure entweder politisch oder religios gedeutet. Die vorliegende Arbeit ist der Versuch einer integrativen Deutung und legt das Konzept der politischen Theologie zugrunde. Unter diesen Bedingungen lasst sich zeigen, dass Antiochos IV. verstarkt auf die Sakralisierung seiner Herrschaft setzte und dass es in judaischen Machtkampfen zu einer zunehmenden Theologisierung der Politik kam. Als Antiochos IV. dann 168 v. Chr. eine Schmach durch die Romer hinnehmen musste und in Judaa ein Burgerkrieg ausbrach, verschrankten sich die Probleme des Seleukidenreichs und Judaas in einem hochgradig kontingenten Szenario: Antiochos IV. ordnete seine kultische Verehrung in Jerusalem an, und die Hasmonaer traten in den judaischen Machtkampfen fur die Rettung der Religion an. Langfristig verfolgten die Hasmonaer sowohl politische als auch religiose Ziele, vor allem ihre Etablierung als Hohepriester. Dies hatte schlielich eine religiose Mobilisierung der Judaer und die Ausbildung der ethnoreligiosen Identitat des Judentums zur Folge. Insgesamt vollzog sich eine Judische Revolution.

What started as just out of high school friends meeting in a one room apartment (#9) at the Aloha motel in Waldron Arkansas, to worship a mix of Celto Roman Gods blossomed into its own legal Temple and tradition, The Shrine of the Irish oak: Universal Life Church #62735.Presented here are the simple rites and beliefs held by the Temple.

Inspiring stories hold the power to transform one's life and thoughts. This book is a compilation of handpicked stories that inspire us to face challenges with courage and to reach for the sky. The stories have been simplified to make them easy to read for readers of all ages.

2024 WINNER Urban Fantasy & FINALIST Best Debut Prodigy - Storytrade Book Awards Something is off in the Swedish village Mara has moved to.After some encounters with supernatural elements, she finds out her neighbors are the long-forgotten Norse gods. For centuries they have been hiding in a small Swedish settlement, but now they want to be worshipped again.Since they aren't experts in modern media, they convince Mara, who is an obsessively ambitious and overconfident advertising manager, for help in putting them back on the map. She is determined to show the world she is capable of launching an entire religion.At least, that is the plan...But the gods are dangerously volatile. While they cause chaos everywhere, people close to Mara fall victim to floods and other disasters she helped create. She wants out, but the gods won't let her go.Can she turn this around without harming the ones she loves?

An abandoned Australian outback town. The ghost of a Cobb & Co carriage. A light breeze blows red dust. Li Quan is far from home. The last person in town. Grows vegetables. Feeds cockatoos.When he dies, who will collect his soul?

Offers a comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and contextualised investigation of the figure of the völva, situating her in the wider context of pre-Christian Nordic religion, culture, and ritual practices.

Recaptures the magical vitality of the original Orphic Hymns

Explores the many forms and abilities of the devil in stories from around the world.

An indispensable companion to Sacred Actions that offers neopagans and Earth-based spiritual practitioners prompts for reflecting on sacred actions in the eightfold wheel of the year through writing, meditation, and creation.

This book provides the first systematic study of the role of animals in different areas of the ancient Greek religious experience, including in myth and ritual, the literary and the material evidence, the real and the imaginary.An international team of renowned contributors shows that animals had a sustained presence not only in the traditionally well-researched cultural practice of blood sacrifice but across the full spectrum of ancient Greek religious beliefs and practices. Animals played a role in divination, epiphany, ritual healing, the setting up of dedications, the writing of binding spells, and the instigation of other 'magical' means. Taken together, the individual contributions to this book illustrate that ancient Greek religion constituted a triangular symbolic system encompassing not just gods and humans, but also animals as a third player and point of reference.Animals in Ancient Greek Religion will be of interest to students and scholars of Greek religion, Greek myth, and ancient religion more broadly, as well as for anyone interested in human/animal relations in the ancient world.

A book on the experience of reading Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea novels that celebrates Le Guin's monumental worldbuilding achievement recaptures the glories of childhood reading.

A witty, refreshing, and fun book on the experience of reading Marcel Proust that allows author and reader to meet and perhaps quarrel, perhaps agree, to go wherever their collaboration leads them, with language itself acting as a conduit.