Ancient

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 9781780354774Author Richard FrostFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint FastPrint PublishingPublisher Upfront PublishingDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 19mm

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...

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...

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

The divine singer Orpheus and his love for his wife Eurydice.Book InformationISBN 9780995578180Author Jill DudleyFormat PaperbackImprint Orpington PublishersPublisher Orpington Publishers

Well before his entry into the religious life in the spring of 386 C.E., Augustine had embarked on a lengthy comparison between teachings on the self in the philosophical traditions of Platonism and Neoplatonism and the treatment of the topic in the...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices...

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) 953gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 33mm

Exploring Gregory of Nyssa: Philosophical, Theological, and Historical Studies brings together an interdisciplinary team of historians, classicists, philosophers, and theologians to offer a holistic exploration of the thought of Gregory of Nyssa. The...

Ephrem the Syrian was one of the founding voices in Syriac literature. While he wrote in a variety of genres, the bulk of his work took the form of madrashe, a Syriac genre of musical poetry or hymns. In Bible and Poetry in Late Antique Mesopotamia,...

The book represents an in-depth investigation of acquisition, cultivation, and transmission of divine mysteries in Jewish apocalyptic and mystical accounts by focusing on the developments found in early Enochic writings. These accounts deal both with...

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Mani was a major religious figure in third-century Mesopotamia. The community he founded, known as Manichaeism, lasted for over a thousand years. Mani wrote many letters and this volume provides a detailed study of the letters as well as a new English...

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Originally published in 1932, this book is based on a series of lectures delivered in Cambridge in 1931. The views of the universe as held by the great teachers of Ancient Alexandria are discussed: Philo, Clement, Origen, Plotinus and the Gnostics are...

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...

A historian explores the temples built for the deities of ancient Egypt, including Luxor and Karnak, and the pyramids and tombs of the pharaohs, their queens and royal officials, including Giza, Memphis and Saqqara, and the Valley of the Kings. 

The Animals of Ancient Egypt Then and Now provides a simultaneous guide to some 60 species of mammal, bird, reptile, amphibian, fish and invertebrate recorded in modern Egypt and also portrayed in the tombs and temples or as mummies and gods in...

Grounds the origins of the Corinthian Christ group within local social practice

Egypt's cultural heritage is vast, and the story of this ancient civilization has long captured our imagination. This fully illustrated book provides a treasure chest of found objects, archaeological sites, hieroglyphic inscriptions and beautiful...

Seers, Shrines and Sirens (1965) surveys the history of Greek religion during the great formative and revolutionary era of the sixth century BC. It treats, among other subjects, the rise to prominence of the Delphic oracle, the growth of religious...

Belief in magic was, until relatively recent times, widespread in Britain; yet the impact of such belief on determinative political events has frequently been overlooked. In his wide-ranging new book, Francis Young explores the role of occult traditions...

This book explores how philosophical and religious communities in the Roman Empire of the first and second centuries CE engaged with and were shaped by their relationship to texts and tradition in their quest for true religious knowledge, or ultimate...

With contributions spanning from the Neolithic Age to the Iron Age, this book offers important insights into the religions and ritual practices in ancient Egyptian and Near Eastern communities through the lenses of their material remains. The book begins...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800505131Author Giovanna ParmigianiFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Equinox Publishing LtdPublisher Equinox Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 263g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800505124Author Giovanna ParmigianiFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Equinox Publishing LtdPublisher Equinox Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 263g

Wedding, Gender, and Performance in Ancient Greece traces the wedding song tradition, its imagery, and its tropes as a genre that became crystallized throughout the ages. It explores how wedding poetics permeates ancient Greek literature. It first...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398845329Author Joseph JacobsFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint ArcturusPublisher Arcturus Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 183gDimensions(mm) 198mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398831377Author Nathaniel HawthorneFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint ArcturusPublisher Arcturus Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 171gDimensions(mm) 198mm...

Celtic Astrology is an ancient, mystical study of the cosmos based on the cycle of the moon and the thirteen tree months. The Celtic zodiac signs associated with these phases of the constellations correlate meaning into human existence. This gorgeously...

Discover the complex mythology of the legendary Nordic people who inspired Hollywood films, epic novels, and more.Beautiful goddesses, fierce warriors, formidable beasts, and Ragnaroek itself--these magical tales have enthralled audiences for centuries...