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subject	book bibliographic info
central, asia	Gagné (2020) 51
central, attributes, divinity	Meister (2019) 1, 2, 3, 4
central, character in the pharsalia, populus romanus, as	Joseph (2022) 37, 38, 39, 42, 43, 44, 45, 72, 104, 105, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 188, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221, 222
central, greece	Kowalzig (2007) 340
central, greece/thessaly, aiakids, and	Kowalzig (2007) 185, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207
central, greeks, pelasgians, traditions interlocking with	Kowalzig (2007) 336, 342, 346, 347, 348, 349
central, in letter of aristeas, phalerum, theodectus	Honigman (2003) 15, 31
central, mediterranean, colonial models of foundation, in the black sea and	Sweeney (2013) 68, 159, 201
central, narrative, charter myth, and	Honigman (2003) 53
central, network, of myths and rituals, also myth-ritual web, grid, framework, several interlocking greece	Kowalzig (2007) 341, 342, 343, 344, 345, 346, 347, 348, 349, 350, 351, 352
central, normal, vs., eccentral, marginal,	Versnel (2011) 144
central, objection to lust, augustine, insubordinate to will as	Sorabji (2000) 337, 380, 404, 405
central, position in the temple, court, the, in	Cohn (2013) 85, 87, 88
central, river in religionsgeschichtliche schule christianity as	Peppard (2011) 24
central, role antipater father of herod, of in tax collection	Udoh (2006) 135
central, role in andromache, apollo	Pucci (2016) 61
central, role in pauls vision, pneuma, spirit, in paul, its	Engberg-Pedersen (2010) 191
central, sense faculty	van der EIjk (2005) 175, 176, 183
central, theme in the oresteia, stability, as	Fabian Meinel (2015) 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133
central, to civic life, festivals	Kalinowski (2021) 94, 100, 102, 103, 104, 106, 110, 111, 155, 175, 284
central, to moral philosophy and education, posidonius, stoic, emotions	Sorabji (2000) 95
central, to myth-ritual interaction, aeschylus	Kowalzig (2007) 3, 4, 8, 395
central, to scripture, ancient language	Carr (2004) 259, 263, 264
central, to stoic thought, nature	Graver (2007) 36, 202, 253
central, to, divine sonship baptism	Peppard (2011) 146
central, to, pauline epistles baptism	Peppard (2011) 146
central/panhellenic, identity, general, local vs.	Kowalzig (2007) 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110
centrality, in ammianus’ narrative, julian’s	Ruiz and Puertas (2021) 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132
centrality, of belief	Mackey (2022) 40, 164, 220
centrality, of body	Lavee (2017) 216, 221, 275
centrality, of declamation, in education	Keeline (2018) 76, 77, 118
centrality, of in roman history, memmius, c.	Walters (2020) 8, 9
centrality, of practice, belief	Eidinow and Kindt (2015) 26
centrality, of reading	Levine (2005) 38, 148, 164, 165, 166, 441
centrality, of scriptural anchor, mythmaking	Fishbane (2003) 15, 26, 98, 99, 106, 107, 113, 123, 134, 138, 139, 162, 203, 204, 205, 210, 221, 246, 257
centrality, of temple	Klawans (2009) 103
centrality, of the body and, genealogical anxiety	Lavee (2017) 216, 217, 218, 219, 221, 222, 223, 224
centrality, of the jerusalem temple in the world-view of diaspora jews, diaspora	Goodman (2006) 64, 65, 221
centrality, of the revelation at sinai	Lavee (2017) 74, 75
centrality, to dionysius of halicarnassus’s rhetorical program, rome	Kirkland (2022) 74, 75, 76, 77
centrality, virtue, of to jewish law	Birnbaum and Dillon (2020) 61, 62
centralization, decentralization, rabbinic movement	Kalmin (1998) 11
centralization, deuteronomy, and	DeJong (2022) 54, 56, 62, 63, 69, 70, 71, 130, 131
centralization, law	Piotrkowski (2019) 34, 63, 105, 399, 435, 436, 437, 439, 440, 441
centralization, of cult, cult	Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben (2020) 38
centralized, collection of tithe	Udoh (2006) 244, 263, 264, 265, 266, 267, 268, 269, 270, 271, 272, 273
centralized, collection of tithes, philo, on	Udoh (2006) 264
centralized, collection, tithe, systems of collection for	Udoh (2006) 263, 264, 265, 266, 267, 268, 269, 270, 271, 272, 273
centralized, imperial control, late roman empire	Cueva et al. (2018b) 263
centralized, power in ethnographies/ethnographers, environmental culture and	Bosak-Schroeder (2020) 143, 144, 145
centralized, power, society , and	Bosak-Schroeder (2020) 143, 144, 145
centralized, tax taxes, roman, censoria locatio farming	Marek (2019) 257, 258
hēgemonikon/central, organ of soul, etc.	Inwood and Warren (2020) 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 21, 27, 73, 100, 104, 105, 109, 115, 116, 118, 119, 125, 140, 141, 142, 149

List of validated texts:

11 validated results for "central"

1. Hebrew Bible, Deuteronomy, 31.12 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Deuteronomy, and centralization • reading, centrality of

Found in books: DeJong (2022) 62; Levine (2005) 38

31.12. הַקְהֵל אֶת־הָעָם הָאֲנָשִׁים וְהַנָּשִׁים וְהַטַּף וְגֵרְךָ אֲשֶׁר בִּשְׁעָרֶיךָ לְמַעַן יִשְׁמְעוּ וּלְמַעַן יִלְמְדוּ וְיָרְאוּ אֶת־יְהוָה אֱלֹהֵיכֶם וְשָׁמְרוּ לַעֲשׂוֹת אֶת־כָּל־דִּבְרֵי הַתּוֹרָה הַזֹּאת׃''. None

31.12. Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little ones, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law;''. None

2. Hebrew Bible, Exodus, 24.7 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Deuteronomy, and centralization • Sinai, centrality of the revelation at

Found in books: DeJong (2022) 69, 131; Lavee (2017) 75

24.7. וַיִּקַּח סֵפֶר הַבְּרִית וַיִּקְרָא בְּאָזְנֵי הָעָם וַיֹּאמְרוּ כֹּל אֲשֶׁר־דִּבֶּר יְהוָה נַעֲשֶׂה וְנִשְׁמָע׃''. None

24.7. And he took the book of the covet, and read in the hearing of the people; and they said: ‘All that the LORD hath spoken will we do, and obey.’''. None

3. Hebrew Bible, Proverbs, 8.22 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Gnosticism, central myth • Mythmaking, Centrality of Scriptural Anchor

Found in books: Esler (2000) 920; Fishbane (2003) 246

8.22. יְהוָה קָנָנִי רֵאשִׁית דַּרְכּוֹ קֶדֶם מִפְעָלָיו מֵאָז׃''. None

8.22. The LORD made me as the beginning of His way, The first of His works of old.''. None

4. None, None, nan (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Gnosticism, central myth • Mythmaking, Centrality of Scriptural Anchor

Found in books: Esler (2000) 920; Fishbane (2003) 106

5. Hebrew Bible, 1 Samuel, 8.16 (8th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • centralization law • tithe, centralized collection of

Found in books: Piotrkowski (2019) 436; Udoh (2006) 244

8.16. וְאֶת־עַבְדֵיכֶם וְאֶת־שִׁפְחוֹתֵיכֶם וְאֶת־בַּחוּרֵיכֶם הַטּוֹבִים וְאֶת־חֲמוֹרֵיכֶם יִקָּח וְעָשָׂה לִמְלַאכְתּוֹ׃''. None

8.16. And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.''. None

6. None, None, nan (8th cent. BCE - 8th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • colonial models of foundation, in the Black Sea and central Mediterranean • identity, general, local vs. central/Panhellenic

Found in books: Kowalzig (2007) 103; Sweeney (2013) 201

7. None, None, nan (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Hēgemonikon/central organ of soul, etc. • central sense faculty

Found in books: Inwood and Warren (2020) 19; van der EIjk (2005) 183

8. Septuagint, 1 Maccabees, 3.49 (2nd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Ancient Language, central to Scripture • tithe, centralized collection of • tithe, systems of collection for, centralized collection

Found in books: Carr (2004) 263; Udoh (2006) 265

3.49. They also brought the garments of the priesthood and the first fruits and the tithes, and they stirred up the Nazirites who had completed their days;''. None

9. None, None, nan (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Chrysippus, Stoic (already in antiquity, views seen as orthodox for Stoics tended to be ascribed to Chrysippus), Concentrates therapy on second judgement • nature, central to Stoic thought

Found in books: Graver (2007) 253; Sorabji (2000) 32, 175, 177, 178

10. Josephus Flavius, Jewish War, 5.201-5.206 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Diaspora, Centrality of the Jerusalem Temple in the world-view of diaspora Jews • temple, centrality of • virtue, centrality of, to Jewish law

Found in books: Birnbaum and Dillon (2020) 62; Goodman (2006) 64; Klawans (2009) 103

5.201. Τῶν δὲ πυλῶν αἱ μὲν ἐννέα χρυσῷ καὶ ἀργύρῳ κεκαλυμμέναι πανταχόθεν ἦσαν ὁμοίως τε αἵ τε παραστάδες καὶ τὰ ὑπέρθυρα, μία δ' ἡ ἔξωθεν τοῦ νεὼ Κορινθίου χαλκοῦ πολὺ τῇ τιμῇ τὰς καταργύρους καὶ περιχρύσους ὑπεράγουσα." '5.202. καὶ δύο μὲν ἑκάστου πυλῶνος θύραι, τριάκοντα δὲ πηχῶν τὸ ὕψος ἑκάστης καὶ τὸ πλάτος ἦν πεντεκαίδεκα.' "5.203. μετὰ μέντοι τὰς εἰσόδους ἐνδοτέρω πλατυνόμενοι παρ' ἑκάτερον τριακονταπήχεις ἐξέδρας εἶχον εὖρός τε καὶ μῆκος πυργοειδεῖς, ὑψηλὰς δ' ὑπὲρ τεσσαράκοντα πήχεις: δύο δ' ἀνεῖχον ἑκάστην κίονες δώδεκα πηχῶν τὴν περιοχὴν ἔχοντες." "5.204. καὶ τῶν μὲν ἄλλων ἴσον ἦν τὸ μέγεθος, ἡ δ' ὑπὲρ τὴν Κορινθίαν ἀπὸ τῆς γυναικωνίτιδος ἐξ ἀνατολῆς ἀνοιγομένη τῆς τοῦ ναοῦ πύλης ἀντικρὺ πολὺ μείζων:" '5.205. πεντήκοντα γὰρ πηχῶν οὖσα τὴν ἀνάστασιν τεσσαρακονταπήχεις τὰς θύρας εἶχε καὶ τὸν κόσμον πολυτελέστερον ἐπὶ δαψιλὲς πάχος ἀργύρου τε καὶ χρυσοῦ. τοῦτον δὲ ταῖς ἐννέα πύλαις ἐπέχεεν ὁ Τιβερίου πατὴρ ̓Αλέξανδρος. 5.206. βαθμοὶ δὲ δεκαπέντε πρὸς τὴν μείζονα πύλην ἀπὸ τοῦ τῶν γυναικῶν διατειχίσματος ἀνῆγον: τῶν γὰρ κατὰ τὰς ἄλλας πέντε βαθμῶν ἦσαν βραχύτεροι.'". None

5.201. 3. Now nine of these gates were on every side covered over with gold and silver, as were the jambs of their doors and their lintels; but there was one gate that was without the inward court of the holy house, which was of Corinthian brass, and greatly excelled those that were only covered over with silver and gold. 5.202. Each gate had two doors, whose height was severally thirty cubits, and their breadth fifteen. 5.203. However, they had large spaces within of thirty cubits, and had on each side rooms, and those, both in breadth and in length, built like towers, and their height was above forty cubits. Two pillars did also support these rooms, and were in circumference twelve cubits. 5.204. Now the magnitudes of the other gates were equal one to another; but that over the Corinthian gate, which opened on the east over against the gate of the holy house itself, was much larger; 5.205. for its height was fifty cubits; and its doors were forty cubits; and it was adorned after a most costly manner, as having much richer and thicker plates of silver and gold upon them than the other. These nine gates had that silver and gold poured upon them by Alexander, the father of Tiberius. 5.206. Now there were fifteen steps, which led away from the wall of the court of the women to this greater gate; whereas those that led thither from the other gates were five steps shorter.''. None

11. Anon., Letter of Aristeas, 95
Tagged with subjects: • reading, centrality of • tithe, centralized collection of • tithe, systems of collection for, centralized collection

Found in books: Levine (2005) 166; Udoh (2006) 266

95. the sacrifices. The most complete silence reigns so that one might imagine that there was not a single person present, though there are actually seven hundred men engaged in the work, besides the vast number of those who are occupied in bringing up the sacrifices. Everything is carried out with''. None

Please note: the results are produced through a computerized process which may frequently lead to errors, both in incorrect tagging and in other issues. Please use with caution.
Due to load times, full text fetching is currently attempted for validated results only.
Full texts for Hebrew Bible and rabbinic texts is kindly supplied by Sefaria; for Greek and Latin texts, by Perseus Scaife, for the Quran, by Tanzil.net

For a list of book indices included, see here.

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