The End of Cuneiform Writing in Uruk, Late Babylonian Astronomy, and the "Phoenix Cycle" By Eckart Frahm

https://www.academia.edu/164651422/The_End_of_Cuneiform_Writing_in_Uruk_Late_Babylonian_Astronomy_and_the_Phoenix_Cycle_?email_work_card=title An analysis of the latest cuneiform texts on clay tablets from the Mesopotamian city of Uruk, with a refutation of recent attempts to date TU 11 and TU 31 to the first, second, or third century CE. It is tentatively suggested that a cryptic allusion to a 654-year cycle in TU 11 is not concerned with the reappearance of the Phoenix bird, as has been posited, but may rather refer to the simultaneous occurrence of a comet, rain, floods, and an earthquake in some apocalyptic remote future. ...

Review of Michael Streck, Altorientalistik: Einführung (Baden-Baden 2023) By Eckart Frahm

https://www.academia.edu/164651372/Review_of_Michael_Streck_Altorientalistik_Einf%C3%BChrung_Baden_Baden_2023_?email_work_card=title

Anon, Society Events By Carole Cusack

https://www.academia.edu/164640618/Anon_Society_Events?email_work_card=title Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Sydney, Carole Cusack delivered an insightful, yet entertaining lecture highlighting the similarities and differences between two of Wagner's most pivotal and medieval chronicles. The Flying Dutchman (1843) and Parsifal (1882) are united by characters who are doomed to wander the earth as penance for unexpurgated sin (a blasphemous oath by the Dutchman, and Kundry's laughter at Christ on the cross). Both are identified with the the Wandering Jew of Christian folklore, who mocked the crucified Jesus and was doomed to deathless wandering. Both are saved by Christ figures; Senta sacrifices herself to break the curse that binds the Dutchman, and Parsifal baptises Kundry, who dies a saved Christian. ...

Extended abstracts, Journal of Philosophical Theological Research, JPTR, 2023, 25(2) By Journal of Philosophical Theological Research

https://www.academia.edu/104360189/Extended_abstracts_Journal_of_Philosophical_Theological_Research_JPTR_2023_25_2_?email_work_card=title Publisher: University of Qom, Editor-in-Chief: Zahra Khazaei Editorial Board: Edward Wierenga (Emiritus Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Rochester University, United States), Vincent Brümmer (Professor, University of Utrecht and Dean of the Theological Faculty, Netherland), Stephen R. Palmquist (Professor, Hong Kong Baptist University), Ahmad Beheshti (Professor, University of Tehran, Iran), Reinhard Hesse (Professor, University of Education Freiburg), Mohsen Javadi (Professor, University of Qom, Iran), Seyed Mostafa Mohaqeq Damad (Professor, Shahid Beheshti University, Iran), Nancey Murphy (Professor, PhD. Philosophy, ThD. Christian theology, Senior Professor of Christian Philosophy, Fuller Theological Seminary, USA), Mohammad Zabihi (Professor, Univerisity of Qom, Iran), Einollah Khademi (Professor, Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University, Iran), Zahra Khazaei (Professor, University of Qom, Iran), Hamidreza Ayatollahy (Professor, Allameh Tabatabaii University, Iran), Jafar Shanazari (Associate professor, University of Isfahan, Iran), Robert Kane (Distinguished Professor, University of Texas, USA), Ishtiyaque Haji (Professor, University of Calgary, Canada), Charles Taliaferro (emeritus Distinguished Emiritus Professor of Philosophy, St. Olaf College, USA), Roger Crisp (Professor of Philosophy, University of Oxford, UK), Henk bakker (Professor of Religion and Theology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands) Journal of Philosophical Theological Research (JPTR) has been indexed in following databases: Scopus | Philosopher's Index | EBSCO | ProQuest | Ovid | PhilPapers | Atla | ISC | Index Copernicus | DOAJ | Ulrich | J-Gate | Advanced Sciences Index (ASI) | ROAD | Scientific Journal Impact Factor (SJIF) | DRJI | International Innovative Journal Impact Factor (IIJIF) | Universal Impact Factor | I2OR | General Impact Factor | Cosmos Impact Factor | Scientific World Index Journal (SWIJ) | Academic Resource Index | Google Scholar | WorldCat | Citefactor | ijifactor | Europub | esjindex (Eurasian scientific journal index) | Scientific indexing Services (SIS) | Academic Keys | Ricest | Magiran | SID | Noormags | Civilica. Journal of Philosophical Theological Research is a product of the joint activity of the University of Qom and The Iranian Association for Philosophy of Religion ...

Thesen und Überlegungen zu einer transnationalen Geschichte der Schweiz By Jakob Tanner

https://www.academia.edu/44048381/Thesen_und_%C3%9Cberlegungen_zu_einer_transnationalen_Geschichte_der_Schweiz?email_work_card=title Transnational history is a perspective that allows a new understanding of the emergence, consolidation, and the many challenges of nation states, defining them as a product of interactions across boundaries and as an effect of transcultural exchange. Such an entangled history must meet three expectations: Frist, it is necessary to develop an adequate understanding of the dynamics of historical change. Transnational historiography must not be limited to economic and cultural transfers but must consider the interdependent transformation of nation states in the course of their mutual intertwining. Secondly, such an approach must promote a new research practice that combines international mobility and networking and widens the source base beyond national borders. Thirdly, a transnational history requires a complex tram model that makes it possible to overcome rigid epochal boundaries so that the period under study is extended back behind the formation of the nation state. ...

F. Gazzano, Herodotus and the Lexicon of the Banquet, in Syllogos 4, 2025, pp. 59-61 (OA) By Francesca Gazzano

https://www.academia.edu/164665805/F_Gazzano_Herodotus_and_the_Lexicon_of_the_Banquet_in_Syllogos_4_2025_pp_59_61_OA_?email_work_card=title Response to Manuela WUNDERL, Das Symposion bei Herodot. Classica Monacensia, Münchener Studien zur Klassischen Philologie, Band 60. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag, 2023.

Medievalism and Apocalypticism in Richard Wagner’s Der Ring der Nibelungen By Carole Cusack

https://www.academia.edu/128699710/Medievalism_and_Apocalypticism_in_Richard_Wagner_s_Der_Ring_der_Nibelungen?email_work_card=title Richard Wagner (1813-1883) wrote thirteen complete operas, including the four that comprised Der Ring des Nibelungen (1876). Overwhelmingly, the operas were based on medieval sources (Tristan und Isolde, Parsifal, Lohengrin, Tannhäuser, Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried, Götterdämmerung, Rienzi), with two dating to the sixteenth century (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and Das Liebesverbot), with only two based on later sources (Der Fliegende Holländer and Die Feen). While medievalism infuses Wagner’s oeuvre, only the Ring Cycle and (arguably) Parsifal are apocalyptic. The Ring traces the triumph and downfall of the gods and is an example of “mythic medievalism” (Eichner 2020). Wagner thought history was a narrative of decline and that an apocalyptic event could transform society, but his youthful hopes for revolution were dashed. The Ring’s world is spoiled by Alberich’s theft of the gold, Mime’s creation of the ring and tarnhelm, and Wotan’s theft of the magical objects. In this paper I discuss the varied apocalypses that can be realized in productions of the Ring, and the how the impact or success of the production reduces or enhances the medievalism of Wagner’s operatic cycle. ...