Self, soul, and body in religious experience /
edited by A. I. Baumgarten, J. Assmann, G. G. Stroumsa
- Leiden ; Boston : E. J. Brill, 1998
- vi, 444 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- Studies in the history and culture of the ancient Near East, 78 .
About Jacob Taubes, who crossed frontiers / P. Glotz. -- Soul, self -- reincarnation: African perspectives / T. Sundermeier. -- Narrative identity and auricular confession as biography-generators / A. Hahn. -- The historico-psychological interpretation of trichotomic anthropologies, with special regard to the conflict theory of Georg Simmel / C. Colpe. -- Adam the panphysiognomist: a stage in modern physiognomics / M. Barasch. -- In the face of death: mortality and religious life in the Bible, in Rabbinic literature and in the Pauline letters / I. Knohl. -- Breath, kiss and speech as the source of the animation of life: ancient foundations of Rabbinic homilies on the giving of the Torah as the kiss of God / A. Kosman. -- Finding oneself in a sectarian context: a sectarian's food and its implications / A. Baumgarten. -- The flesh, the person and the other in Rabbinic anthropology / A. Agus. -- From corpse to corpus: the body as a text in Talmudic literature / N. Rubin. -- Self, identity, and body in Paul and John / A. Destro and M. Pesce.