Borders: Terminologies, Ideologies, and Performances

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-3-16-154375-3
Verlag: Mohr Siebeck

Buch, Englisch, Band 366, 508 Seiten, Format (B × H): 239 mm x 161 mm, Gewicht: 913 g

Reihe: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament

What are the relevant conceptualities and terminologies marking political, cultural, cultic, or religious borders and border zones? What terms represent "border" or "border zones" and what did they signify in antiquity? In this volume, an international group of archaeologists, classicists, historians, and biblical scholars investigates various terms, performances, and qualities of borders, and ideologies of boundaries in antiquity. Their primary focus is on physical borders and border zones of political organizations as well as of sanctuaries and houses, and on borderlines which can be experienced in demarcations and their relevance for religious life. The contributions also discuss instances where definitions of external borders are renounced altogether and states are organized from the center toward the outer margins, for example, with the sub-divisions of a given territory remaining undefined. And they look into trans-boundary social relationships, investigated on the basis of archaeological finds and textual sources, and their significance for the transfer of knowledge.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weissenrieder, Annette

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Klassische Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte Religionen der Antike
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Weissenrieder, Annette
Born 1967; Professor of Exegesis and Theology of New Testament at the Faculty of Theology at the Martin-Luther-University and director of the Institute 'Corpus Hellenisticum', University of Halle-Wittenberg.