This article deals with the history of Indian Alchemy and surveys its gradual and fertile growth in ancient India.

Considering the cosmology with mythological form of consciousness era as the primary base of metaphysical form and the basis of development toward an integrated cosmology, political ideas has been placed in an organic link with a metaphysical system in the ancient Persians as well as Chinese political thought. Based on considerable similarities among cosmological systems in civilizations e.g....

of the Sutra or traditions. When they were written down in their present form is not yet ascertained. A violent dispute has arisen among the learned whether Indian therapeutics are independent of, or influenced by, the Greeks. As among the investigators of ancient Egypt, so among those of ancient India, there are two parties,?the one who extols the knowledge of its protege to the skies, the oth...

ancient India on osteology in an English dress. The only work with which we are acquainted in which any detailed description of ancient Indian medicine has been attempted, is the "Commentary on the Hindu System of Medicine," published in 1845 by Thomas Alexander Wise, of the Bengal Medical Service, Civil Surgeon of Hughli and Principal of the Hughli College. That work summarizes the whole syste...

This article discusses Clement of Alexandria’s doctrine of Scripture based on the terms “voice” of God, “first principle,” and “demonstration” that he uses for Scripture. By studying the usage of these terms and the related passages, it will be made clear that Clement regards Scripture as a vessel of God’s voice, favoring what is now called the theory of verbal inspiration. Mo...

Besides its religious importance, the Bible, because of its ancient origin represents a relevant witness of the way of life of the people mentioned in it. The Holy Scripture is also the first text revealing the utility of plants for man, as natural sources of food, wood, fibers, oils and medicinal herbs. In the last 60 years, several distinguished botanists have attempted to identify the scient...

Thanks to the work of scholars such as Ulrich Luz and Dale C. Allison, Jr., Wirkungsgeschichte (usually rendered into English as “reception history”) has come to be regarded as a necessary part of biblical scholarship.1 Recent years have seen the publication of a volume on Revelation in the Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture series, as well as of a book, authored by Judith Kovacs and Chr...