Ancient

The presence of gods was felt in every corner of the Celtic world, and influenced all areas of life in Celtic society. This fascinating book delves into these corners to examine all aspects of the gods, ritual customs, cult objects and sacred places of...

Syncretistic exegesis.The philosopher Philo was born about 20 BC to a prominent Jewish family in Alexandria, the chief home of the Jewish Diaspora as well as the chief center of Hellenistic culture; he was trained in Greek as well as Jewish ...

Since the mid-twentieth century, religious movements identifying themselves as Paganism, shamanism, native faiths and others have experimented with two forms of indigeneity. One arises from claims to be reviving or re-presenting previously hidden...

Faulkner's authoritative English translation of Middle Kingdom coffin texts is essential for all Egyptologists. This new edition reprints his whole work in one volume. Filling the gap between the `Pyramid' texts and the New Kingdom Book of the Dead, ...

Oratory and philosophy from a Latin novelist.Apuleius, one of the great stylists of Latin literature, was born ca. AD 125 in Madauros to a politically prominent family and received an elite education in the provincial capital Carthage and at Athens,...

In Shamanic Mysteries of Egypt, Nicki Scully and Linda Star Wolf renew humanity's connection to the ancient gods of Egypt, the neteru. Voices from these divine ancestors remind us of the healing power of the heart, and call us to bring their...

An unparalleled exploration of magic in the Greco-Roman worldWhat did magic mean to the people of ancient Greece and Rome? How did Greeks and Romans not only imagine what magic could do, but also use it to try to influence the world around them? In...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399510066Author Stanley StowersFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams)...

The Celtic myths, involving heroic warriors such as Finn and CuChulinn, can be read as simple primitive stories, but closer examination reveals strange descriptions and relationships. The authors of this ground-breaking book argue that all the principal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957612037Author Ian CumpsteyFormat PaperbackPage Count 338Imprint Northern Displayers, Skadi PressPublisher Northern Displayers, Skadi Press

How religious ritual united a growing and diversifying Roman RepublicMany narrative histories of Rome's transformation from an Italian city-state to a Mediterranean superpower focus on political and military conflicts as the primary agents of social...

A comprehensive treatment of the significant symbols and institutions of Roman religion, this companion places the various religious symbols, discourses, and practices, including Judaism and Christianity, into a larger framework to reveal the sprawling...

Syncretistic exegesis.The philosopher Philo was born about 20 BC to a prominent Jewish family in Alexandria, the chief home of the Jewish Diaspora as well as the chief center of Hellenistic culture; he was trained in Greek as well as Jewish ...

Despite their centrality to the history of Christianity in the East, Syriac Christians have generally been excluded from modern accounts of the faith. Originating from Mesopotamia, Syriac Christians quickly spread across Eurasia, from Turkey to China,...

The Sacred Actions Journal is an invaluable tool designed to complement the book Sacred Actions, which is a guide for neopagans and Earth-based spiritual practitioners seeking to integrate sustainable and sacred practices in their daily lives. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780933999527Author Antoine FaivreFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Phanes Press,U.S.Publisher Phanes Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648744207Author Juno HeartFormat PaperbackPage Count 390Imprint Amy J. HeartPublisher Amy J. HeartWeight(grams) 572gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 22mm

From binding spells and incantations to curse-writing rituals, magic pervaded the ancient Greek world. In Blood and Ashes provides the first historical study of the development and dissemination of ritualized curse practice from 750-250 BCE, documenting...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781577312116Author Frank Henderson MacEowenFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint New World LibraryPublisher New World Library

Ancient as they are, the Greek myths still resonate at the core of our literature and culture, and may well reveal more about human nature and the world we have created than we like to believe. From the garden of his house in the Peloponnese...

Cassiodorus-famed throughout history as one of the great Christian exegetes of antiquity-spent most of his life as a high-ranking public official under the Ostrogothic King Theoderic and his heirs. He produced the Variae, a unique letter collection that...

What ancient polytheistic religions can teach us about building inclusive and equitable futures At the heart of this book is a simple comparison: monotheistic religions are exclusive, whereas ancient polytheistic religions are inclusive. In this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647392970Author Maggie HasemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Callisto Media Inc.Publisher Callisto Media Inc.Weight(grams) 1gDimensions(mm) 1mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939790057Author John Michael GreerFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Lorian PressPublisher Lorian PressWeight(grams) 154gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

What if you were to discover that you were not entirely you, but rather one half of a whole, that you had, in other words, a divine double? In the second and third centuries CE, this idea gripped the religious imagination of the Eastern Mediterranean,...

Leap directly into the powerful undercurrents of Egyptian magick and be changed forever. Venture into a hidden realm where true gnosis and healing can be found. By invoking these deities of ancient Egypt, you create a stargate whereby you can enter into...

The Bundahisn, meaning primal or foundational creation, is the central Zoroastrian account of creation, cosmology, and eschatology. Compiled sometime in the ninth century CE, it is one of the most important surviving testaments to Zoroastrian literature...

The ancient state of Rhodes was famous for many things in the Hellenistic period; it emerged as an economic powerhouse thanks to its strategic position on maritime trade routes, its status further bolstered by its proud independence in an era of great...

For over a thousand years, the practice of animal sacrifice held a central place in ancient Graeco-Roman culture as a means of both demonstrating piety to the gods and structuring social relationships. As Christianity took root in Rome in the third...

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...

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...

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...

The gods of Homer's Iliad have troubled readers for millennia, with many features of their presentation seeming to defy satisfactory explanation. Homer's Divine Audience presents and explores a new 'metaperformative' approach to scenes of divine viewing,...

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...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789514590573Author Amar AnnusFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint 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 9780190888220Author Elizabeth A ClarkFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Oxford University Press, USAPublisher Oxford University Press, USA

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...