Antiquities & Archaeology

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578459882Author Joshua FreeFormat PaperbackPage Count 404Imprint Joshua FreePublisher Joshua FreeWeight(grams) 620g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884143369Author James R HarrisonFormat HardbackPage Count 424Imprint SBL PressPublisher SBL PressWeight(grams) 152g

By offering, for the first time in a single edition, complete English translations of Apollodorus' Library and Hyginus' Fabulae--the two most important surviving "handbooks" of classical mythography--this volume enables readers to compare the two's...

During the archaic and classical periods, Greek ideas about the dead evolved in response to changing social and cultural conditions - most notably changes associated with the development of the polis, such as funerary legislation, and changes due to...

The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Ritual and Religion provides a comprehensive overview by period and region of the relevant archaeological material in relation to theory, methodology, definition, and practice. Although, as the title indicates,...

An excellent historical overview of the gods... It is a recommended necessary reading for those studying Ancient Egyptian religion. Frankie's Reviews in Egyptology A work of extraordinary distinction, Hornung's book will appeal to anyone interested in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802867018Author William G. DeverFormat PaperbackPage Count 436Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781579104641Author William L. CraigFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

Histories you can trust. The Oxford History of the Holy Land covers the 3,000 years which saw the rise of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - and relates the familiar stories of the sacred texts with the fruits of modern scholarship. Beginning with the...

When the first archaeologists visited Egypt in the late 1800s, they arrived in the eastern Nile Delta to verify the events described in the biblical Book of Exodus. Several locations believed to be the city of the Exodus were found but all were later...

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...

A fresh translation of the Pistis Sophia from the Coptic and a discussion of its historical setting.Sophia is one of the great symbols of the divine feminine in world civilization and the personification of divine Wisdom. In Gnosticism, the secret...

James Pritchard's classic anthologies of the ancient Near East have introduced generations of readers to texts essential for understanding the peoples and cultures of this important region. Now these two enduring works have been combined and integrated...

This handbook offers both students and teachers of ancient Greek religion a comprehensive overview of the current state of scholarship in the subject, from the Archaic to the Hellenistic periods. It not only presents key information, but also explores...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955523069Author Neil McDonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Mutus LiberPublisher Mutus LiberWeight(grams) 118gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 5mm

This book is an attempt to coax Roman history closer to the bone, to the breath and matter of the living being. Drawing from a remarkable array of ancient and modern sources, Carlin Barton offers the most complex understanding to date of the emotional...

There is little doubt that in recent years the nature of the Genesis narrative has sparked much debate among Christians. This Counterpoints volume introduces three predominant interpretive genres and their implications for biblical understanding. Each...

A panoramic history of the antiquarians whose discoveries transformed Renaissance culture and gave rise to new forms of art and knowledgeIn the early fifteenth century, a casket containing the remains of the Roman historian Livy was unearthed at a...

This completely revised and updated second edition of The New Testament in Antiquity skillfully develops how Jewish, Hellenistic, and Roman cultures formed the essential environment in which the New Testament authors wrote their books and letters...

Death, burial, and the afterlife were as important to the ancient Egyptians as how they lived. This well-illustrated book explores all aspects of death in ancient Egypt, including beliefs of the afterlife, mummification, the protection of the body, tombs...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979214837Author John ArgubrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint John ArgubrightPublisher John ArgubrightWeight(grams) 196gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

The Oxford Illustrated History of the Holy Land covers the 3,000 years which saw the rise of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam--and relates the familiar stories of the sacred texts with the fruits of modern scholarship. Beginning with the origins of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420970968Author E a Wallis BudgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 532Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 1220gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807013434Author Charlene SpretnakFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 184gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 147mm *...

Jane Harrison examines the festivals of ancient Greek religion to identify the primitive "substratum" of ritual and its persistence in the realm of classical religious observance and literature. In Harrison's preface to this remarkable book, she writes...

This fascinating book explores the evolution of religious dualism, the doctrine that man and cosmos are constant battlegrounds between forces of good and evil. It traces this evolution from late Egyptian religion and the revelations of Zoroaster and the...

The first modern study of prehistoric religion in Ireland to draw on the combined evidence of archaeology, literature and folklore to illuminate practice and belief from the earliest human habitation in the island down to the advent of Christianity in...

Resurrection of the dead represents one of the more enigmatic beliefs of Western religions to many modern readers. In this volume, C. D. Elledge offers an interpretation of some of the earliest literature within Judaism that exhibits a confident hope in...

See the Bible through a New Lens, from Beginning to End In Rediscovering Israel, you will experience the living God and His Word as never before! Bestselling author and professor Kristi McLelland invites you to explore the biblical narrative in the...

Places of Pilgrimage is a record of the travels of artist Ian Scott Massie, as he seeks out the spirit of place of over 75 locations around Britain. In words and paintings, he explores the personality of these sites explaining, for example, what he feels...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979214851Author John ArgubrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint John ArgubrightPublisher John ArgubrightWeight(grams) 151gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

The Boxford Mosaic has been described as the most spectacular and innovative Roman mosaic ever found in Britain. Yet it lay hidden beneath a Berkshire field for some 1,600 years until it was fully uncovered in the Summer of 2019. Dating from around 350...

Most biographies of the Celtic saints are filled with legends and were written centuries after they lived. But the places where they lived and worked, generally in the more remote parts of their home or adopted countries can still be visited. Their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802877635Author William G. DeverFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing Co

A concise history of the world's greatest stone circle, Stonehenge, by Britain's leading expert. Every aspect of Stonehenge is re-considered in Aubrey Burl's new analysis. He explains for the first time how the outlying Heel Stone long predates...

"Mount Athos, for over a thousand years a centre for monasticism, has attracted pilgrims for nearly as long. This fascinating collection of essays discusses pilgrimage, the pilgrims, and the monks themselves. The Athonite ban on females has not precluded...

Chapters, beginning with the dawn of human civilization and ending with present day and the future of archaeology, chronicle hundreds of sites and artefacts found in Sumer, Babylon, the Second Temple, along the route of the Exodus, and in many other...

At once polemical, insightful and thought-provoking, Conceiving God is essential reading for all those interested in the origins of religious thought, and the respective roles of science and religion in contemporary society. Building on the insights and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671865412Author Graham HancockFormat PaperbackPage Count 600Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 590g

Healing, Disease and Placebo in Graeco-Roman Asclepius Temples narrates a story of religious healing that took place at sanctuaries dedicated to the ancient Greek god Asclepius, the so called asclepieia. The Asclepius cult, which attracted supplicants...