[13] Even the word synagogue, a Greek word, illustrates the hybridity in the Jewish diasporic communities; a Jewish institution is called by a Greek name. However, this was not the primary word [...] identity; “typical” Jewish names; mention of Jewish religious customs; the presence of such material in what is already considered a Jewish catacomb or cemetery; and finally, mention of a synagogue or synagogue [...] did the names for both the buildings themselves and their leaders. In actuality, the development in Rome of a group of Jews who followed a man called Jesus in the centuries after his execution is a good example

How did a foreign deity like Bendis receive an officially accepted public cult with a temenos and what did this entail for her Thracian worshippers? A glimpse of what happened is given in a late inscription [...] sanctuaries for the cohesion and definition of a polis community. [17] Founding a cult and building a sanctuary was one of the most important acts a community as a whole could undertake through which it [...] the Athenian community as a politico-polis (especially Ath. Pol. 1275a). But recently Ober has stressed that Aristotle also uses the word ‘polis’ to describe a community in a more inclusive sense, the

und seine Forscherkollegen der University of the Witwatersrand, der Texas A&M University, der Duke University und der James Cook University haben jetzt in der neuesten Ausgabe von "Science" zwei Typen [...] Forscher die neue Hominidenart vorsichtigerweise der Gattung Australopithecus zu. Sie gaben ihr den Namen Australopithecus sediba, was in der seSotho-Sprache "Brunnen" oder "Quelle" bedeutet. Die Austral [...] Peter Schmid, Kristian J. Carlson, Paul H.G.M. Dirks und Job M. Kibii: Australopithecus sediba: A New Species of Homo-like Australopith from South Africa, in: Science, 9. April 2010, Vol 327, issue

Salaminioi, thanks to a fourth century BC settlement decree, which regulates a dispute over property within the genos. What is of interest to us here is not so much the dispute itself, as what the decree tells [...] to the seventh or eighth. That they had been a part of the Kekrops-Erechtheus mythological cycle for a long time is not necessarily a problem, but rather a solution to it. It was the fact that they were [...] Hera, which was given a new home in a newly consecrated precinct on the Aventine hill. How should this act be interpreted? Was it just a brutal act of humiliation at the expense of a poor, conquered nation

Lifting up the stone has therefore a quite clear link with an initiation [11] and with a succession or a power taking. Therefore, the image of a stone is involved in a mythical tale, when somebody [...] as 'image' in such a sense, the image of a stone lifted up, only in the event that a substantive indicating the stone is near a verb signifying the act of lifting up, or that is a clear expression re [...] to a real language. Consequently, reading the Greek mythology is similar to reading a language, in which the basic part (the ' image ') is the issue of the fusion between a signifier and a signified

can’t be considered a direct approach. Following the theories of Post-Processual Archaeology we have always to remember that what can be captured observing funerary remains is only a metaphoric image of [...] their inscriptions, but sometimes new difficulties emerge because a large number of these epigraphic attestations list only the names or the relationships of the buried. This means that only in case of [...] were reorganized by the community with a new symbolic order and expressed through the filters of ideology (ideas, beliefs and meanings). In fact there is sometimes a transmission of symbols from the living

Das Projekt «MISR: Mission Siptah - Ramses X.» hatte zunächst, wie der Name sagt, zum Ziel, die Gräber der beiden Pharaonen Siptah und Ramses X. vollständig auszugraben und zu [...] des sogenannten Osttales liegt, war die letzte Ruhestätte des zweitletzten Königs der 19. Dynastie namens Siptah (1198-1194 v.Chr.). Es wurde 1905 von Edward R. Ayrton entdeckt und bis zu dem Raum vor der [...] auf ( Plan mit Schnitt und isometrische Zeichnung ): Nach dem Treppenabgang (gezählt als Korridor A) folgen zunächst drei Korridore: B geneigt, C flach, D wieder geneigt. In den Korridoren B und C ist

in place of the god’s name appears the usual formula sive deus sive dea ; 2) the addressee is the oppidum ’s tutelary deity; 3) there has been a votum of a temple or of a cult, and this votum [...] happens in Livius, where only Furius Camillus acts. After the formula of what Macrobius classifies as a devotio , he lists a number of cities which experienced this rite, but it isn’t correct to combine [...] formula given by Livius appears the proper name of Iuno Regina : he has replaced the sive deus sive dea with the name of the goddess who had received a cult in Rome and whose place of origin everyone

out from the sepulchre, two of them sustaining the other and a cross following them. Verse 40 could seem a descriptive verse, but it has a total symbolic character: καὶ τῶν μέν δύο τὴν κεφαλὴν χωροῦσαν [...] His obedience’ [12] . There must have been a great number of different traditions regarding a theophanic resurrection of Jesus that was flanked to a tradition concerning an empty grave, with many of [...] verses are people who truly live and die a natural death and not a death due to sin. The writer of the 1 st Peter speaks about the descent of Jesus into hell and a preaching of salvation to the dead present

the bar of iron rolled on the ground in two pieces, as a woodsman would sever a sapling with a hedging-bill. "By the head of the Prophet, a most wonderful blow!" said the Soldan, critically and accurately [...] exercise his strength, he saw a steel mace held by one of the attendants, the handle being of the same metal, and about an inch and a half in diameter. This he placed on a block of wood. The anxiety [...] into a mass consisting of nought but bone, brawn, and sinew. He unsheathed his scimitar, a curved and narrow blade, which glittered not like the swords of the Franks, but was, on the contrary, of a dull