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Christian Thought took shape during millennia when religion and politics where still the same. During the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius it began to spread as a movement of protest against the Roman cult of emperor deification. Prehistoric chiefs among Stone Age hunters already knew themselves to be sons of totemic gods- Eagle, Bear, Lion, Wolf, Dragon and more. Sons of less specialized deities invented agriculture, while hunters and herdsmen...

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Presents a new approach to the study of myths relating to the origin of the Navajos. This book is based on extensive fieldwork and research, including Navajo hunter informants and unpublished manuscripts of Father Berard Haile.

Der Friede Abrahams", als eine "musikalische Erzählung für Chor und Orgel, " ist hiermit in deutscher Sprache vorgelegt. Eine revidierte englische Ausgabe wird in Kürze erscheinen. Das Musikstück schwebt so etwa zwischen einem Volks-Oratorium und einem antiken Epos. Die Abraham Persönlichkeit mag beinahe viertausend Jahre alt sein, und die ersten Sätze von Erzählern dürften vor etwa dreitausend Jahren niedergeschrieben worden sein. Die Abraham...

Excavation of Goebekli Tepe has revealed the hitherto unknown religion of the "Neolithic Revolution." Almost twelve millennia ago the cult was established, at the northern end of the Fertile Crescent, by priests who were hunter-shamans, miners of flint and weapon-makers. Progress in weapon manufacture resulted in overhunting, a temporary surplus of meat, too many human hunters, and a decline in prey animal populations. Shortages of prey animal...

The excavation of G¿bekli Tepe has revealed the hitherto unknown religion of the ¿Neolithic Revolution." This book offers an archaeological starter basis for interpreting that ancient religion. Other fresh perspectives affect our understanding of civilization, human sacrifice, cannibalism, warfare, and imperialism. Fresh contextual perspectives are presented on ancient Egypt and Greece, on Abraham, the Scapegoat question, as well as on the tea...

Narratives about the patriarch Abraham, written during the first millennium BCE, may be counted as the most influential epic of the pre-Christian and pre-Islamic Near East. In our days this epic frequently seems to be a cause of religious strife and warfare. Three thousand years ago it was a source for cultural and religious reform. It helped moderate slavery and abolish cultic human sacrifice. Emphasizing today its "peace" function once again...

pp. xv-xvi. Accolades given by representatives of Plate Tectonics science-to Alfred Wegener as their first founder-are a nice gesture toward German-born scientists in the English-speaking world. They are, however, a gesture that has bequeathed ambivalent consequences. "Continental Drift" and "wandernde Kontinente" do not complement the worldwide Mid-ocean Spreading Rift which Plate Tectonics explorers have discovered during the 1960s. While ha...

Ausgrabungen am Goebekli Tepe brachten die bisher noch unbekannte Religion der "Jungsteinzeitlichen Revolution" zum Vorschein. Vor beinahe 12 000 Jahren wurde dieser Kultus etabliert, von Priestern die Jaegerschamanen, Feuersteingraeber und Waffenmacher waren. Fortschritt in der Waffenindustrie fuehrte zum Ueberjagen, brachte dadurch eine kurzfristige Schwemme von Fleisch, zu viele Jaeger im Nachwuchs, und ein darauffolgendes Schwinden der Fau...