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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989580816Author Marla J SelvidgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Loch Lloyd Travel Consultants LlpPublisher Loch Lloyd Travel Consultants...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989354929Author Jeffrey K BedrickFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Golden AdditionsPublisher Golden AdditionsWeight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985549053Author Mitchell D Ewing SrFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Enlightenment Publishing LLCPublisher Enlightenment Publishing LLCWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991104802Author S KalyanaramanFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Sarasvati Research CenterPublisher Sarasvati Research CenterWeight(grams) 254g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983102762Author Lee LevinFormat PaperbackPage Count 522Imprint Marian LevinPublisher Marian LevinWeight(grams) 757g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789521094910Author Amar AnnusFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus ProjectPublisher Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus ProjectWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781610352116Author Dr. Ruth K. WestheimerFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Linden Publishing Co IncPublisher Linden Publishing Co IncDimensions(mm)...

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The Wooden Horse is legendary, but what exactly was it? Why did the Greek warriors construct such a thing in the first place? And what was it that made the Trojans believe the Greeks had sailed away and the ten-year Trojan War was over? All these...

Anybody wanting to learn something about the commander-in-chief of the Greek army in the Trojan War will find out in this booklet. Jill Dudley explains the curse inflicted on the House of Atreus by King Agamemnon's ancestor, and the misfortunes suffered...

A practical guide to the creation of natural wands for magical work. From Moses to Merlin to the power of the royal scepter, the wand has been a key magical device found in nearly every civilization and esoteric tradition throughout history. The...

Disputation literature is a type of text in which usually two non-human entities (such as trees, animals, drinks, or seasons) try to establish their superiority over each other by means of a series of speeches written in an elaborate, flowery register...

Restoring the Chain of Memory describes and analyses the writings and records compiled by the notable linguist, T.G.H. Strehlow (1908-1978), on Australian Aboriginal Religions, particularly as practised by the Arrernte of Central Australia. During...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800501966Author Sarah E RollensFormat HardbackImprint Equinox Publishing LtdPublisher Equinox Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 234g

This book describes and analyses the writings and records compiled by the notable linguist, T.G.H. Strehlow (1908-1978), on Australian Aboriginal religions, particularly as practised by the Arrernte of the central desert region. During numerous research...

A seminal figure in late antique Christianity and Christian orthodoxy, Saint Gregory of Nazianzus published a collection of more than 240 letters. Whereas these letters have often been cast aside as readers turn to his theological orations or...

Saint Gregory of Nazianzus, also known as Gregory the Theologian, lived an illustrious life as an orator, poet, priest, and bishop. Until his death, he wrote scores of letters to friends and colleagues, clergy members and philosophers, teachers of...

Although the reception of the Eastern Father Gregory of Nyssa has varied over the centuries, the past few decades have witnessed a profound awakening of interest in his thought. The Body and Desire sets out to retrieve the full range of Gregory's...

The most prominent Christian theologian and exegete of the third century, Origen was also an influential teacher. In the famed Thanksgiving Address, one of his students-often thought to be Gregory Thaumaturgus, later bishop of Cappadocia-delivered an...

The fourth century of our common era began and ended with a miracle. Traditionally, in the year 312, the Roman emperor Constantine experienced a "vision of the Cross" that led him to convert to Christianity and to defeat his last rival to the imperial...

First published in 1959, The People of the Dead Sea Scrolls gives a complete pictorial record of the dramatic story of the Dead Sea Scrolls – actually shows the places where the Scrolls were found, as well as the desert and caves in which the people of...

First published in 1981, Divination and Oracles analyses the religious practices of the ancient world as they have been witnessed from Scandinavia to Tibet and Japan, from the third millennium BC until the present day. Divination and the consultation of...

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...

An important collection of eight essays on Ancient Persia (Iran) in the periods of the Achaemenid Empire (539-330 BC), when the Persians established control over the whole of the Ancient Near East, and later the Sasanian Empire. It will be of interest to...

How many Muses are there? Who were the original twelve Titans? Why is Zeus (Jupiter) associated with power stations, and Poseidon (Neptune) with salt-cellars? Who were Aphrodite's (Venus') handmaidens? In this beautiful little book, packed with helpful...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780354774Author Richard FrostFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint FastPrint PublishingPublisher Upfront PublishingDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 19mm

While topics such as death, funerary cult, and the netherworld have received considerable scholarly attention in the context of the Ugaritic textual corpus, the related concept of life has been relatively neglected. Life and Mortality in Ugaritic takes...

Discover the gods, goddesses, and heroes from Norse mythology with this beautiful handbook that captures the ancient stories that captivated the Vikings.Learn more about your favorite Norse gods, goddesses, and heroes with this collection of profiles...

Simone Weil (1909–1943) is one of the most brilliant and unorthodox religious and philosophical minds of the twentieth century. She was also a political activist, worked in the Renault car factory in France in the 1930s and fought briefly as an anarchist...

Offers an introduction to the basic beliefs, practices, and major deities of Greek and Roman religions A volume in the Blackwell Ancient Religions, Greek and Roman Religions offers an authoritative overview of the region's ancient religious practices...

The first book to explore the religious dimensions of the family and the household in ancient Mediterranean and West Asian antiquity. Advances our understanding of household and familial religion, as opposed to state-sponsored or civic temple...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992863203Author Robert H. JordanFormat PaperbackPage Count 595Imprint Colenso BooksPublisher Colenso Books

When it comes to the study of religion, Willi Braun is a paragon of what a methodologically rigorous and epistemologically modest academic ought to look like. Braun's career began in the 1990s, when he studied among a cadre of other notable graduate...

The gods were the true heroes of Rome. In this major new contribution to our understanding of ancient history, Jorg Rupke guides the reader through the fascinating world of Roman religion, describing its unique characteristics and bringing its...

Addressing the close connections between ancient divination and knowledge, this volume offers an interlinked and detailed set of case studies which examine the epistemic value and significance of divination in ancient Greek and Roman cultures.Focusing on...

The trickster whose warnings of Pandora's box evils were ignored.Book InformationISBN 9780995578173Author Jill DudleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 10Imprint Orpington PublishersPublisher Orpington Publishers

Jason whose efforts to obtain the Golden Fleece embroiled him with the sorceress Medea.Book InformationISBN 9780995578166Author Jill DudleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 14Imprint Orpington PublishersPublisher Orpington Publishers

Life and death of Heracles and his twelve labours.Book InformationISBN 9780995578159Author Jill DudleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 14Imprint Orpington PublishersPublisher Orpington Publishers

Heroic king of Athens who, when still a prince, volunteered to kill the Minotaur.Book InformationISBN 9780995578142Author Jill DudleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 14Imprint Orpington PublishersPublisher Orpington Publishers

Prophetess who was never believed.Book InformationISBN 9780995578197Author Jill DudleyFormat PaperbackImprint Orpington PublishersPublisher Orpington Publishers