Jan N. Bremmer

About the Author

Jan N. Bremmer (Ph.D. 1979) is professor of Religious Studies at the University of Groningen. He has published extensively on Greek, Roman, Early Christian and contemporary religion, including Greek Religion (1994) and The Rise and Fall of the Afterlife (2002)

Includes the names: JN Bremmer, Jan Bremmer, Jan Bremmer

Series

Studies on the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles

Studies on Early Christian Apocrypha

Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology

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Works by Jan N. Bremmer

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The early Greek concept of the soul (1983) 103 copies, 1 review

Greek Religion (New Surveys in the Classics No. 24) (1998) 54 copies

From Sappho to De Sade: Moments in the History of Sexuality (1988) — Editor — 50 copies

A Cultural History of Gesture (1991) — Editor — 45 copies, 2 reviews

Initiation into the Mysteries of the Ancient World (Münchner Vorlesungen zu Antiken Welten Book 1) (2014) 32 copies

Interpretations of Greek Mythology (Routledge Revivals) (1987) — Editor — 27 copies

The Rise and Fall of the Afterlife (2001) 27 copies

The Gods of Ancient Greece: Identities and Transformations (Edinburgh Leventis Studies) (2010) — Editor — 20 copies

A Cultural History of Humour: From Antiquity to the Present Day (1997) — Editor — 14 copies

The Apocalypse of Peter (Studies on Early Christian Apocrypha) (2003) — Editor; Contributor — 14 copies

The Metamorphosis of Magic from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern Period (Groningen Studies in Cultural Change) (2002) — Editor — 14 copies

Roman Myth and Mythography (Bulletin Supplement) (1987) 12 copies

The Rise of Christianity through the eyes of Gibbon, Harnack and Rodney Stark (2010) 11 copies

Sacred history and sacred texts in early Judaism : a symposium in honour of A.S. van der Woude (1992) — Editor — 8 copies

Perpetua's Passions: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Passio Perpetuae et Felicitatis (2012) — Editor — 8 copies

Greek Religion and Culture, the Bible and the Ancient Near East (Jerusalem Studies in Religion & Culture) (2008) 7 copies

Between Poverty and the Pyre: Moments in the History of Widowhood (1995) — Editor — 7 copies

The Apocryphal Acts of Paul and Thecla (Studies on Early Christian Apocrypha) (1996) — Editor; Contributor — 6 copies

The Apocryphal Acts of Thomas (Studies on Early Christian Apocrypha) (2002) — Editor — 6 copies

The Apocryphal Acts of John (1996) — Editor; Contributor — 5 copies

The Apocryphal Acts of Peter: Magic, Miracles and Gnosticism (Studies on Early Christian Apocrypha) (1998) 5 copies

Paradigms, Poetics and Politics of Conversion (Groningen Studies in Cultural Change) (2006) — Editor — 4 copies

Maidens, magic and martyrs in early christianity. I / Collected essays (2017) 4 copies

The Strange World of Human Sacrifice (Studies in the History and Anthropology of Religion) (2007) 3 copies

The Pseudo-Clementines (2010) 3 copies

Homo ridens humor van de Oudheid tot heden (1999) 2 copies

The apocryphal acts of Andrew (2000) — Editor; Contributor — 2 copies

Martelaren van de oude kerk : bewaarde documenten van de christenvervolging tot ca. 300 na Christus (1988) 2 copies

La Religión Griega. Dioses Y Hombres: Santuarios, Rituales Y Mitos (Mundo griego) (2006) 1 copy

Ritual 1 copy

The Visio Pauli and the Gnostic Apocalypse of Paul (Studies on Early Christian Apocrypha) (2007) 1 copy

The Materiality of Magic (2015) 1 copy

The Protevangelium of James (2020) — Editor — 1 copy

Ancient Necromancy Fact or Fiction (2015) 1 copy

The Greek Gods in the Twentieth Century (2013) 1 copy

The ascension of Isaiah (2016) 1 copy

Van zendelingen, zuilen en zapreligie : tweehonderd jaar godsdienst in Nederland en Het Apostolisch Genootschap (2005) 1 copy

Profeten en, zieners en de macht in Griekenland, Israël en het vroegmoderne Europa (1991) 1 copy

Antik Çağdan Günümüze Mizahın Kültürel Tarihi 1 copy

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The Cambridge Companion to Atheism (2007) — Contributor — 265 copies

A Companion to Greek Religion (2007) — Contributor — 80 copies

The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) — Contributor — 47 copies

Medea: Essays on Medea in Myth, Literature, Philosophy, and Art (1997) — Contributor — 44 copies, 1 review

Oxford Readings in Greek Religion (2000) — Contributor — 38 copies

A Feminist Companion to the New Testament Apocrypha (2006) — Contributor — 34 copies

A Companion to Greek Mythology (2011) — Contributor — 28 copies

The Oxford Handbook of Hellenic Studies (2009) — Contributor — 26 copies

Religion: Beyond a Concept (The Future of the Religious Past) (2008) — Contributor — 25 copies

Heavenly Realms and Earthly Realities in Late Antique Religions (2004) — Contributor — 22 copies

Abraham, the Nations, and the Hagarites: Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Perspectives on Kinship with Abraham (Themes in Biblical Narrative) (2010) — Contributor — 19 copies

Eve's Children: The Biblical Stories Retold and Interpreted in Jewish and Christian Traditions (Themes in Biblical Narrative) (2003) — Contributor — 18 copies

Sodom's Sin: Genesis 18-19 and Its Interpretations (Themes in Biblical Narrative) (2004) — Contributor — 18 copies

From Myth to Reason?: Studies in the Development of Greek Thought (1999) — Contributor — 14 copies

Jerusalem, Alexandria, Rome : studies in ancient cultural interaction in honour of A. Hilhorst (2004) — Contributor — 13 copies

Other Worlds and Their Relation to This World: Early Jewish and Ancient Christian Traditions (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism) (2010) — Contributor — 13 copies

The Creation Of Heaven And Earth: Re-interpretations Of Genesis 1 In The Context Of Judaism, Ancient Philosophy, Christianity, And Modern Physics (Themes in Biblical Narrative) (2007) — Contributor — 12 copies

Practitioners of the Divine: Greek Priests and Religious Officials from Homer to Heliodorus (2008) — Contributor — 12 copies, 1 review

Cults and Rites in Ancient Greece: Essays on Religion and Society (2014) — Contributor — 11 copies

Flores Florentino: Dead Sea Scrolls and Other Early Jewish Studies in Honour of Florentino Garcia Martfnez (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism) (2007) — Contributor — 10 copies

The Wisdom of Egypt: Jewish, Early Christian, and Gnostic Essays in Honour of Gerard P. Luttikhuizen (Arbeiten zur Geschichte des Antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums, Bd. 59) (2005) — Contributor — 9 copies

Authoritative Scriptures in Ancient Judaism (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism) (2010) — Contributor — 9 copies

The Early Christians: From the Beginnings to Constantine (Classical Scholarship in Translation) (2023) — Preface — 9 copies

Reconceiving Religious Conflict: New Views from the Formative Centuries of Christianity (Routledge Studies in the Early Christian World) (2018) — Contributor — 8 copies

Pythagorean knowledge from the ancient to the modern world : askesis, religion, science (2016) — Contributor — 7 copies

Empsychoi logoi--religious innovations in antiquity studies in honour of Pieter Willem van der Horst (2008) — Contributor — 6 copies

Animals in Ancient Greek Religion (2020) — Contributor — 6 copies

TRACING ORPHEUS SOZ 10 (Sozomena) (2011) — Contributor — 6 copies

Redefining Dionysos (2013) — Contributor — 5 copies

Secrecy and Concealment: Studies in the History of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Religions (Studies in the History of Religions) (1995) — Contributor — 4 copies

Civic priests : cult personnel in Athens from the Hellenistic period to Late Antiquity (2011) — Contributor — 4 copies

Mystery and Secrecy in the Nag Hammadi Collection and Other Ancient Literature: Ideas and Practices (Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies) (2011) — Contributor — 4 copies

The Roman Historical Tradition: Regal and Republican Rome (2014) — Contributor — 4 copies

Hidden Futures: Death and Immortality in Ancient Egypt, Anatolia, the Classical, Biblical and Arabic-Islamic World (1995) — Contributor — 3 copies

Intende, lector : echoes of myth, religion and ritual in the ancient novel (2013) — Contributor — 3 copies

The Role of Religion in the Early Greek Polis (1996) — Contributor — 3 copies

Man, Meaning, and Mystery: 100 Years of History of Religions in Norway. the Heritage of W. Brede Kristensen (Man, Meaning, and Mysterynumen Book Series: Studies on the Histories… (2000) — Contributor — 3 copies

Martyrdom and Persecution in Late Antique Christianity: Festschrift Boudewijn Dehandschutter (Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium) (2010) — Contributor — 3 copies

De Rechtbank in de Oude Boteringestraat : het gebouw en zĳn bewoners (2002) — some editions — 3 copies

Rites of Passage in Ancient Greece (Bucknell Review) (1999) — Contributor — 2 copies

The Local Horizon of Ancient Greek Religion (2023) — Contributor — 1 copy

Arethusa (vol 13 no 2): Indo-European Roots of Classical Culture — Contributor — 1 copy

Myth and symbol II : symbolic phenomena in ancient Greek culture : papers from the second and third international symposia on symbolism at the Norwegian institute at Athens,… (2005) — Contributor — 1 copy

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Canonical name: Bremmer, Jan N.
Legal name: Bremmer, Jan Nicolaas
Birthdate: 1944-12-18
Gender: male
Education: Free University of Amsterdam
Occupations: professor (Ancient History)
Nationality: Netherlands
Associated Place (for map): Netherlands

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RoyHartCentre 47 reviews

A Cultural History of Gesture: From Antiquity to the Present Day by Jan Bremmer

A collection of academic essays from a conference held at Utrecht in 1989, useful only to find the odd historical nugget, perhaps. Mostly it is a celebration of uninteresting academic platitudes and de rigeur politically correct observations on gesture in gender roles and society.

May 9, 20091 other review

BibliotecaCatara 3,410 reviews

El concepto del alma en la antigua Grecia by Jan Bremmer

EL CONCEPTO DEL ALMA EN LA ANTIGUA GRECIA

Desde que Erwin Rohde publicara en 1893 su gran libro
Psigué sobre el culto y la creencia en la inmortalidad
entre los griegos, el tema del alma y su relación con la
vida antes y despuès de la muerte ha interesado a los
estudiosos de la antigua religión griega. En este sentido,
la importante contribución de Jan N. Bremmer a esta
larga discusión académica parece tener un carácter
definitivo tanto por sus procedimientos, más amplios y
actualizados, show more como por sus conclusiones.

Con una claridad y concisión admirables, Bremmer nos
ofrece en tres apartados una panorámica del desarrollo
histórico de las creencias sobre el alma en la antigua
Grecia la 'comprensión de un concepto nada cerčano a
huestra noción histórica de alma; la idea del alma en los
seres vivos como algo Jihre», ue a pesar de pertenecer a
lo individual de un ser puede volar fuera del cuerpo en
sueños, en trances o desvanecimientos, y múltiple, pues no
hay una sino una diversidad de ellas; y sobre el alma de
los muertos, la metamorfosis del alma en el momento de
la muerte, las diferentes manifestaciones del mundo de los
difuntos, la relación entre alma y cuerpo en los muertos y
la importancia de los ritos funerarios. En suma, Bremmer
establece, muy convincentemente, la compleja visión no
dualista que del alma tenian los antiguos griegos.

Jan N. Bremmer (1944). profesor de Historia de las
Religiones en la Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, es co-autor
de Roman Mith and Mythography y editor de Interpretations
of Greek Mythology show less

Apr 17, 2024Spanish

Rodemail 267 reviews

Gebaren en lichaamshouding van de oudheid tot heden (Sporen) by Jan Bremmer