Dissertation--Heidelberg, 1994. / Bibliogr. p. 349-360.

Author's thesis (doctoral)--Universität Heidelberg, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-360) and index.

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Thesis (Ph.D.) -- Australian National University, 2006.

This thesis is the result of my work with the Military Nature-Centered community. The first thing is does it examine some of the distinctive features of the population, such as its history, sense of community, magical consciousness. It then presents the military Nature-Centered community as an emergent tradition.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Sydney, 2004. / "A thesis submitted in fulfilment of requirements for admission to the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, University of Sydney, 2004" Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print form.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Sydney, 2004. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Aug. 7, 2005). Accompanying CD-ROM in print version lacking in electronic version. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 305-324).

Between the 1st and 3rd centuries AD, there was a rise in inscriptions dedicated to gods given the epithet hypsistos (“most high”). This growth raises questions about the beliefs and composition of the cult or cults that set up these dedications. The answers to these questions shed light on the construction and spread of monotheism in the pagan world as well as the context in which early Christianity spread and attracted followers. Many scholars, from Schürer in 1897 to Mitchell in 2010 have interpreted the Hypsistos inscriptions as evidence of a widespread pagan cult that practiced a syncretic Jewish-pagan religion and worshiped the Jewish god. In this essay, I examine Hypsistos inscriptions from the Bosporan kingdom, Anatolia, and Athens. Where possible, I infer the beliefs of the groups or persons that set up dedication, compare the iconography of the dedications, identify the gods of the inscriptions, often hidden behind a guise of anonymity, and explore the demographic composition of the groups that set up these shrines and dedications. I find that a variety of groups set up dedications to the Most High God, and that hypsistos connotes a number of different meanings. The beliefs of the worshipers that set up these dedications range from pagan polytheism to an extreme henotheism almost indistinguishable from monotheism. In some cases these worshipers may associate themselves with the Jewish religion, in other cases they do not. / Thesis / Master of Arts (MA)

L'Arbre de Jessé est une image particulièrement complexe qui a connu plusieurs variantes iconographiques. Le type christologique complexe est une création byzantine du sujet. Ce type est constitué de plusieurs éléments iconographiques, comme des scènes prophétiques, des figures des ancêtres et des prophètes. A ce noyau iconographique s 'ajouteront à partir de la fin du XIIIe siècle et le début du XIVe siècle les figures des sages et philosophes païens. Dans la présente étude nous examinons l'iconographie de ce type et nous essayons de comprendre, à travers les images et les inscriptions écrites sur les rouleaux des sages païens, cette association afin de retracer ses étapes d'évolution principales dans la peinture murale byzantine et post-byzantine. / The Tree of Jesse is a particularly complicated pictorial theme, which can be found in many different versions. The complex christological type is a purely Byzantine creation. Towards the end of 13th and early 14th century, figures of sages and philosophers of the Greek antiquity are added to this type, which already contains many iconographic elements such as prophetic and evangelical scene and independent figures of prophets and ancestors of Christ. In this study we examine the compositions and the texts of the inscriptions written on the pagan's scrolls this iconographic combination in order to trace its key evolutional stages in Byzantine and post-Byzantine mural painting.