Submitted by Sandra Pereira (srpereira@ufrrj.br) on 2017-01-30T15:02:42Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2016 - Eduardo Belleza Abdala Miranda.pdf: 2931175 bytes, checksum: a60d654c2199468c575faab57666ab27 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-01-30T15:02:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2016 - Eduardo Belleza Abdala Miranda.pdf: 2931175 bytes, checksum: a60d654c2199468c575faab57666ab27 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-04-25 / This work aims to analyze the political-religious actions of the Roman Emperor Flavius Claudius Julian (361 ? 363 AD), known as ?the Apostate?. To comply with the proposal of the dissertation, will be need to understand a little about the period in which Julian ruled Rome, known as Dominato. From a periodization suggested in this paper, we seek to identify the characteristics of the political system and the importance of such research for the analysis of Julian's empire. Then we will make a brief biographical research on the sovereign comprising all his philosophical, political and religious formation, so we can understand densely their political and religious goals to become emperor. We used as the main source a hymn in devotion to the sun god, Helios, designed by Julian in Greek and translated into English by Wilmer Wright. Within the dynamics of research, the work seeks to avoid its hypothesis that the emperor followed the god Mithras, solar deity Indo-Iranian. The dissertation presents an analysis of the two deities separately, so you can identify which Julian followed suit. Made these studies, will we can reach the main hypothesis of this study was to identify the political transformation that Julian sought to achieve from a religious perspective based on the solar-worship / O presente trabalho tem por objetivo analisar as a??es pol?tico-religiosas do imperador romano Fl?vio Cl?udio Juliano (361 ? 363 d. C.), conhecido como ?o ap?stata?. Para cumprir com a proposta da disserta??o, ser? preciso compreender um pouco sobre o per?odo no qual Juliano governou Roma, conhecido como Dominato. A partir de uma periodiza??o sugerida neste texto, buscamos identificar quais as caracter?sticas desse sistema pol?tico e qual a import?ncia dessa investiga??o para a an?lise do imp?rio de Juliano. Faremos, ent?o, uma breve pesquisa biogr?fica sobre o soberano, compreendendo toda sua forma??o filos?fica, pol?tica e religiosa, para que, assim, possamos compreender densamente seus objetivos pol?tico-religiosos ao se tornar imperador. Utilizamos como fonte principal um hino em devo??o ao deus do Sol, H?lios, elaborado em grego por Juliano e traduzido para o ingl?s por Wilmer Wright. Dentro da din?mica da pesquisa, o trabalho busca se desvincular da hip?tese de que o imperador seguia o deus Mitra, divindade solar indo-iraniana. A disserta??o prop?e uma an?lise das duas divindades separadamente, para que seja poss?vel identificar qual delas Juliano seguia de fato. Feito estes estudos, poderemos chegar a principal hip?tese deste trabalho: identificar a transforma??o pol?tica que Juliano procurava realizar a partir de uma perspectiva religiosa com base no culto solar

The search for a ‘historical Moses’ is one which has been debated for several centuries. In spite of copious archaeological finds in Egypt and other parts of the ancient Near East, no material remains have been found to substantiate the Exodus story. Mythological stories from the ancient Near East bear striking similarities to the Moses narrative found in the Hebrew Bible. The inconsistencies found in the Hebrew Bible further hamper the attempt to find a historical Moses, instead Moses is found only in tradition. Taking these issues into consideration, other possibilities need to be investigated. This dissertation places Moses growing up in the court of Akhenaten an 18th Dynasty Egyptian Pharaoh in the middle of the 14th century BCE. The study investigates the possibility of Moses as a son of Akhenaten with Nefertiti as a stepmother, his own biological mother, a Mitannian princess, having died giving birth to Moses. Several similarities between Akhenaten and Moses are discussed throughout the study. The study moves into the 21st century with the groundbreaking discovery of DNA, which provides new conclusions which before were only debated. / Biblical & Ancient Studies / M.A. (Biblical Archaeology)

The search for a ‘historical Moses’ is one which has been debated for several centuries. In spite of copious archaeological finds in Egypt and other parts of the ancient Near East, no material remains have been found to substantiate the Exodus story. Mythological stories from the ancient Near East bear striking similarities to the Moses narrative found in the Hebrew Bible. The inconsistencies found in the Hebrew Bible further hamper the attempt to find a historical Moses, instead Moses is found only in tradition. Taking these issues into consideration, other possibilities need to be investigated. This dissertation places Moses growing up in the court of Akhenaten an 18th Dynasty Egyptian Pharaoh in the middle of the 14th century BCE. The study investigates the possibility of Moses as a son of Akhenaten with Nefertiti as a stepmother, his own biological mother, a Mitannian princess, having died giving birth to Moses. Several similarities between Akhenaten and Moses are discussed throughout the study. The study moves into the 21st century with the groundbreaking discovery of DNA, which provides new conclusions which before were only debated. / Biblical and Ancient Studies / M.A. (Biblical Archaeology)