Ancient

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398855915Author EA Wallis BudgeFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint ArcturusPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd

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Religion is a modern invention, a category used to describe and study certain kinds of human behaviour. Yet when it comes to the ancient world and its texts - including those that comprise the Jewish and Christian Bibles - it can be easy to forget that...

Religion is a modern invention, a category used to describe and study certain kinds of human behaviour. Yet when it comes to the ancient world and its texts - including those that comprise the Jewish and Christian Bibles - it can be easy to forget that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913984199Author Christian de VartavanFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint PROJECTIS PUBLISHINGPublisher PROJECTIS PUBLISHING

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

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This open access book is the first in a groundbreaking series making Babylonian literature accessible. It presents Enuma Elish in transcription and translation, with an introduction for non-specialist readers and essays from leading scholars in the field...

Associations in the Greco-Roman World provides students and scholars with a clear and readable resource for greater understanding of the social, cultural, and religious life across the ancient Mediterranean. The authors provide new translations of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398845886Author Nathaniel HawthorneFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint ArcturusPublisher Arcturus Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 845gDimensions(mm) 228mm *...

This open access book is the first in a groundbreaking series making Babylonian literature accessible. It presents Enuma Elish in transcription and translation, with an introduction for non-specialist readers and essays from leading scholars in the field...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398839908Author EA Wallis BudgeFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint ArcturusPublisher Arcturus Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 525gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398839960Author EA Wallis BudgeFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint ArcturusPublisher Arcturus Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 1024gDimensions(mm) 228mm *...

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Myths are not just the stories from the ancient Greeks and Romans-they represent deep truths from the essential concerns people face in their lives. Readers may already have heard of the Trojan Horse or how Oedipus married his own mother, but why have...

Blood for Thought delves into a relatively unexplored area of rabbinic literature: the vast corpus of laws, regulations, and instructions pertaining to sacrificial rituals. Mira Balberg traces and analyzes the ways in which the early rabbis interpreted...

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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...

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...

Blood for Thought delves into a relatively unexplored area of rabbinic literature: the vast corpus of laws, regulations, and instructions pertaining to sacrificial rituals. Mira Balberg traces and analyzes the ways in which the early rabbis interpreted...

Preaching Bondage introduces and investigates the novel concept of doulology, the discourse of slavery, in the homilies of John Chrysostom, the late fourth-century priest and bishop. Chris L de Wet examines the dynamics of enslavement in Chrysostom's...

There are very few accounts of the afterlife across the period from Homer to Dante. Most traditional studies approach the classical afterlife from the point of view of its "evolution" towards the Christian afterlife. This book tries to do something...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789521013430Author Takayoshi OshimaFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus ProjectPublisher Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus...

In the early sixth-century eastern Roman empire, anti-Chalcedonian leaders Severus of Antioch and Julian of Halicarnassus debated the nature of Jesus' body: Was it corruptible prior to its resurrection from the dead? Viewing the controversy in light of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789521013454Author Rumen KolevFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus ProjectPublisher Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus ProjectWeight(grams)...

Most people have heard of the Judgement of Paris, but who was Paris? Why was there a judgement, and what or who was he judging? The answers to these questions are to be found in this Put it in Your Pocket booklet.Book InformationISBN...

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

First published in 1949, Ancient Roman Religion is an introduction to some of the most outstanding features of the complicated religion, or rather series of religions, which flourished in Rome between the earliest recoverable ages of her long history and...

Jill Dudley writes about the clash of St. Paul's concept of love with the sexual pleasures which the pagans enjoyed at the great temple of Aphrodite on Acrocorinth. She describes how the Apostle spent his time at nearby Old Corinth observing, preaching...

Everybody has heard of Helen of Troy, and knows that she was the most beautiful woman in the world. Most people know that she was married bur ran off with somebody which caused the Trojan War. But who, in fact, was she? Whose daughter was she, and who...

What did Zeus mean to the Greeks? And who was Hera, united with Zeus historically and archetypally as if they were a human pair? C. Kerenyi fills a gap in our knowledge of the religious history of Europe by responding to these questions. Examining the...

Most people have heard of Odysseus from Homer's Odyssey, but few know who he was or where he came from, or what part he played in the Trojan War. In this sixth Put it in Your Pocket booklet his cunning and heroism are described, as are the adventures he...

Today we speak of an 'Achilles' heel'. But who was Achilles, and what exactly was the story of his heel? Why was he considered the finest hero in the Trojan War, and what caused him to fall out with King Agamemnon so that he refused to fight? Did he...

Apuleius' Metamorphoses is probably best known as the literary source for the myth of Eros and Psyche and as a primary source of information about mystery religions in the ancient world. There is another realm of the Metamorphoses which has, until...

While most of its contemporary religions have faded away, Israelite religion continues to have a major influence in the world. First delivered in 1975 as a Jordan Lecture in Comparative Religion, this volume argues that in its beginnings Israelite...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789521013409Author Simo ParpolaFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus ProjectPublisher Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus ProjectWeight(grams)...