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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802829597Author Tammi J. SchneiderFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683072676Author Dr David FalkFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Hendrickson Publishers IncPublisher Hendrickson Publishers Inc

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The Material Dynamics of Festivals in the Graeco-Roman East explores the various ways in which the experience of civic festivals in the Graeco-Roman East was created and framed by material culture. By the second and third centuries AD, Greek festivals...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884143130Author Michele CammarosanoFormat HardbackPage Count 538Imprint SBL PressPublisher SBL PressWeight(grams) 953g

Classifying Christians investigates late antique Christian heresiologies as ethnographies that catalogued and detailed the origins, rituals, doctrines, and customs of the heretics in explicitly polemical and theological terms. Oscillating between ancient...

Late antiquity was a perilous time for children, who were often the first victims of economic crisis, war, and disease. They had a one in three chance of dying before their first birthday, with as many as half dying before age ten. Christian writers...

This interdisciplinary edited volume presents twelve papers by Roman historians and archaeologists, discussing the interconnected relationship between religion and the Roman economy over the period c. 500 BC to AD 350. The connection between Roman...

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Christian communities flourished during late antiquity in a Zoroastrian political system, known as the Iranian Empire, that integrated culturally and geographically disparate territories from Arabia to Afghanistan into its institutions and networks...

Epiphanius, Bishop of Constantia on Cyprus from 367 to 403 CE, was incredibly influential in the last decades of the fourth century. Whereas his major surviving text-the Panarion, an encyclopedia of heresies-is studied for lost sources, Epiphanius...

Worshippers of the Gods tells how the Latin writers who witnessed the political and social rise of Christianity rethought the role of traditional religion in the empire and city of Rome. In parallel with the empire's legal Christianisation, it traces...

Religious Dissent in Late Antiquity reconsiders the religious history of the late Roman Empire, focusing on the shifting position of dissenting religious groups - conventionally called 'pagans' and 'heretics'. The period from the mid-fourth century until...

The Bible says that YHWH alone is God and that there is none like him-but texts and artwork from antiquity show that many gods looked very similar. In this volume, scholars of the Hebrew Bible and its historical contexts address the problem of YHWH's...

How have the goddesses of ancient myth survived, prevalent even now as literary and cultural icons? How do allegory, symbolic interpretation and political context transform the goddess from her regional and individual identity into a goddess of...

The field of mythography has grown substantially in the past thirty years, an acknowledgment of the importance of how ancient writers "wrote down the myths" as they systematized, organized and interpreted the vast and contested mythical storyworld. With...

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Considering the striking similarities between the treatment of the dead and conceptions of the netherworld in ancient Egypt and China, how can we compare the two traditions? Mu-chou Poo considers this question, and provides a new perspective on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645670042Author M Alan KazlevFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Manticore PressPublisher Manticore PressWeight(grams) 431g

Moving away from focusing on wisdom as a literary genre, this book delves into the lived, embodied and formative dimensions of wisdom as they are delineated in Jewish sources from the Persian, Hellenistic and early Roman eras. Considering a diverse body...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884143628Author Annette SchellenbergFormat HardbackPage Count 422Imprint SBL PressPublisher SBL PressWeight(grams) 785g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884143543Author Michael E StoneFormat HardbackPage Count 276Imprint SBL PressPublisher SBL PressWeight(grams) 576g

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Moving away from focusing on wisdom as a literary genre, the book delves into the lived, embodied, and formative dimensions of wisdom as they are delineated in Jewish sources from the Persian, Hellenistic, and early Roman eras. Considering a diverse body...

How have the goddesses of ancient myth survived, prevalent even now as literary and cultural icons? How do allegory, symbolic interpretation, and political context transform the goddess from her regional and individual identity into a goddess of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884143505Author David a BosworthFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint SBL PressPublisher SBL PressWeight(grams) 440g

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The myths and legends of ancient Egypt still reach out to us across nearly six thousand years with timeless and universal expressions of human hopes and fears that are sometimes quite familiar, sometimes quite strange. Without myth, the writing of...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861630957Author George YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Capall Bann PublishingPublisher Capall Bann Publishing

The life and times of the great philosopher Socrates. Including the prosecution, trial and execution.Book InformationISBN 9781739411114Author Jill DudleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 12Imprint Orpington PublishersPublisher Orpington Publishers

Life of PlatoBook InformationISBN 9781739411121Author Jill DudleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 16Imprint Orpington PublishersPublisher Orpington Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739411107Author Jill DudleyFormat PaperbackImprint Orpington PublishersPublisher Orpington Publishers

Life and works of HomerBook InformationISBN 9781739411183Author Jill DudleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 14Imprint Orpington PublishersPublisher Orpington Publishers

Life and works of the dramatist Euripides.Book InformationISBN 9781739411152Author Jill DudleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 14Imprint Orpington PublishersPublisher Orpington Publishers

Life and works of the dramatist Sophocles.Book InformationISBN 9781739411169Author Jill DudleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 14Imprint Orpington PublishersPublisher Orpington Publishers

Life and works of comic dramatist Aristophenes.Book InformationISBN 9781739411176Author Jill DudleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 14Imprint Orpington PublishersPublisher Orpington Publishers