Zeit und Ewigkeit als Raum gttlichen Handelns

The volume contains the papers from an international symposium held in 2007 by the GAttingen Graduate School on Images of Godsa " Images of Goda " World Views: Polytheism and Monotheism in the Antique World. Working from the topic of Time and Eternity as Places of Divine Action, the contributors examine differing conceptions of time and eternity in a cultural region with intensive exchange. The papers deal with the Ancient Orient (Egypt, Mesopotamia, Iran), ancient philosophy (Aristotle, Plato, Stoa) and the three world religions Judaism, Christianity and Islam.