Ancient

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934309674Author Brigitte LionFormat HardbackPage Count 430Imprint CDL PressPublisher CDL PressWeight(grams) 1701g

Worship of the Egyptian goddess Isis dates as far back as 2500 B.C. and extended at least until the fifth century A.D. throughout the Roman world. The importance of her cult is attested to in Apuleius's Golden Ass, and evidence of its influence has been...

Throughout his career Arthur Darby Nock (1902-1963) made unique and lasting contributions to classical scholarship and the history of religion, especially to the study of ancient religion, magic, and the relation of paganism to early Christianity and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985000400Author Todd D BennettFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Shema Yisrael PublicationsPublisher Shema Yisrael PublicationsWeight(grams)...

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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 9780743324007Author John T CullenFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Clocktower Books San Diego CA USAPublisher Clocktower Books San Diego CA...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393002874Author Martin P. NilssonFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton & CoWeight(grams) 355gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

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

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Presenting modern devotional perspectives that are rarely covered in other works, this premium hardcover offers comprehensive profiles of more than one hundred Egyptian gods, goddesses, and other divine beings. This thoroughly researched, full-color tome...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789521094910Author Amar AnnusFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Ian Sanders Memorial FundPublisher Ian Sanders Memorial FundWeight(grams) 340g

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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...

This study raises that difficult and complicated question on a broad front, taking into account the expressions and attitudes of a wide variety of Greek, Roman, Jewish, and early Christian sources, including Herodotus, Polybius, Cicero, Philo, and Paul...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789521013454Author Rumen KolevFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Ian Sanders Memorial FundPublisher Ian Sanders Memorial FundWeight(grams) 658g

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 9781574780352Author Yosef A a Ben-JochannanFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Black Classic PressPublisher Black Classic PressWeight(grams) 159g

An A-Z of some of the most celebrated creatures in Greek mythology, from the lizard-like Centaur, Abas, to Zeus, tyrannical king of the Olympian gods, and including Alcyoneus, Bia, the Chimaera, Damysus, Echidna, Fear and Famine, Geryon, the Hydra,...

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...