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Classifying Christians: Ethnography, Heresiology, and the Limits of Knowledge in Late Antiquity by Todd S. Berzon 9780520284265
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $82.46Classifying 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... -
Studies in Ancient Persia and the Achaemenid Period by John Curtis 9780227177051
Booksplease Price: $110.55An 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... -
Ancient Greek Monsters: Divine and Daemonic by Richard Frost 9781780354774
Booksplease Price: $18.02Apologies 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 -
Greek and Roman Religions by Rebecca I. Denova 9781118542903
RRP: $108.30Booksplease Price: $95.41Offers 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... -
Household and Family Religion in Antiquity John Bodel 9781118255339
RRP: $48.96Booksplease Price: $44.60The 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... -
Worth More Than Many Sparrows: Essays in Honour of Willi Braun by Sarah E Rollens 9781800501973
RRP: $32.19Booksplease Price: $29.45When 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 Religion of the Romans by Jorg Rupke 9780745630144
Booksplease Price: $79.14The 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... -
Prometheus & Pandora's box: Legendary Greek names by Jill Dudley 9780995578173
RRP: $4.24Booksplease Price: $4.08The trickster whose warnings of Pandora's box evils were ignored.Book InformationISBN 9780995578173Author Jill DudleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 10Imprint Orpington PublishersPublisher Orpington Publishers -
Jason & the Golden Fleece: Legendary Greek names by Jill Dudley 9780995578166
RRP: $4.24Booksplease Price: $4.08Jason 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 -
Heracles and his Twelve Labours: Legendary Greek names by Jill Dudley 9780995578159
RRP: $4.24Booksplease Price: $4.08Life and death of Heracles and his twelve labours.Book InformationISBN 9780995578159Author Jill DudleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 14Imprint Orpington PublishersPublisher Orpington Publishers -
Theseus & the Minotaur: Hero & King of Athens by Jill Dudley 9780995578142
RRP: $4.24Booksplease Price: $4.08Heroic 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 -
Orpheus & Eurydice: Legendary Greek Names by Jill Dudley 9780995578180
RRP: $4.24Booksplease Price: $4.08The divine singer Orpheus and his love for his wife Eurydice.Book InformationISBN 9780995578180Author Jill DudleyFormat PaperbackImprint Orpington PublishersPublisher Orpington Publishers -
The Integrated Self: Augustine, the Bible, and Ancient Thought by Brian Stock 9780812248715
RRP: $72.24Booksplease Price: $59.91Well 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... -
Phases in the Religion of Ancient Rome by Cyril Bailey
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $82.84This 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... -
Hittite Local Cults by Michele Cammarosano 9780884143130
RRP: $94.17Booksplease Price: $85.66Apologies 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 by Anna Marmodoro 9780198826422
RRP: $141.90Booksplease Price: $109.65Exploring 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... -
Bible and Poetry in Late Antique Mesopotamia: Ephrem's Hymns on Faith by Jeffrey Wickes 9780520302860
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $82.46Ephrem 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,... -
Divine Mysteries in the Enochic Tradition by Andrei A. Orlov 9783111195537
Booksplease Price: $118.11The 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... -
Hel Katharine O'Brien 9781919501109
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.60Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Classical Mythology: Myths and Legends of the Ancient World Nathaniel Hawthorne 9781398863132
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.72Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Letters of Mani: A Lost Scripture of the Late Antique World Iain Gardner 9780198892755
RRP: $134.16Booksplease Price: $120.74Mani 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... -
Introduction to the Archaeology of the Land of the Bible: From the Neolithic Revolution until Alexander's Conquest Aren M. Maeir 9783111227924
RRP: $35.48Booksplease Price: $31.93Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Celtic Tales E. M. Wilmot-Buxton 9781398864696
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $9.28Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Alexandrine Teaching on the Universe R. B. Tollinton 9781032892603
RRP: $41.27Booksplease Price: $38.45Originally 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... -
The People of the Dead Sea Scrolls: in Text and Pictures John Marco Allegro 9781032738673
RRP: $41.27Booksplease Price: $38.45First 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... -
The Sacred Sites of Ancient Egypt: A historical guide to the temples, tombs and pyramids of the pharoahs Lorna Oakes 9780754836193
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $17.42A 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 Richard Hoath 9781913679828
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.44The 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... -
The Origins of the Corinthian Christ Group: Paul’s Chord of Gods Stephen Ahearne-Kroll 9781399536301
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $29.01Grounds the origins of the Corinthian Christ group within local social practice -
The History of Ancient Egypt Explored Through its Gods, Myths and Rituals Lucia Gahlin 9780754836117
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $15.21Egypt'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: The Greek Religious Revolution in the Sixth Century B.C. John Pollard 9781032758770
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $36.24Seers, 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... -
Magic in Merlin's Realm: A History of Occult Politics in Britain Francis Young 9781009065870
RRP: $33.53Booksplease Price: $28.37Belief 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... -
Philosophers, Jews, and Christians in the Roman Empire: Authority, Text, and Tradition Leslie Kelly 9781032904214
RRP: $72.23Booksplease Price: $64.98This 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... -
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Material Religion in the Ancient Near East and Egypt Nicola Laneri 9781350398696
Booksplease Price: $72.78With 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... -
The Spider Dance: Tradition, Time and Healing in Southern Italy Giovanna Parmigiani 9781800505131
RRP: $34.77Booksplease Price: $34.66Apologies 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 -
The Spider Dance: Tradition, Time and Healing in Southern Italy Giovanna Parmigiani 9781800505124
RRP: $96.75Booksplease Price: $82.34Apologies 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 Greek Poetry Andromache Karanika 9780198884576
RRP: $127.71Booksplease Price: $116.87Wedding, 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... -
Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales Joseph Jacobs 9781398845329
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.22Apologies 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 *... -
Classical Mythology Nathaniel Hawthorne 9781398831377
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.22Apologies 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 T. Bonaddio 9780762487615
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $7.15Celtic 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... -
Northern Mythology: Tales from Norse, Finnish, and Sámi Traditions Tim Rayborn 9781646434619
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.70Discover 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...