Antiquities & Archaeology

This is the first English edition of a book first published very successfully in German in 2019. It is a translation of the revised third German edition. The central themes of Stefan Heid's book are the early Christian altar and the design and building...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780310431596Author Craig S. KeenerPage Count 2400Imprint ZondervanPublisher ZondervanWeight(grams) 1903gDimensions(mm) 259mm * 184mm * 58mm

This interdisciplinary edited volume presents twelve papers by Roman historians and archaeologists, discussing the interconnected relationship between religion and the Roman economy over the period c. 500 BC to AD 350. The connection between Roman...

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

Scholars of the Hebrew Bible have in the last decade begun to question the historical accuracy of the Israelite sojourn in Egypt, as described in the book of Exodus. The reason for the rejection of the exodus tradition is said to be the lack of...

"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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681921402Author John O'NeillFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Our Sunday Visitor Inc.,U.S.Publisher Our Sunday Visitor Inc.,U.S.Weight(grams)...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606082447Author Frederick W ShipleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 97Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

Hoffmeier examines the Wilderness narratives of Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers. As director of the North Sinai Archaeological Project, the author has led several excavations that have uncovered important new evidence supporting the Wilderness narratives,...

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...

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 9781948626514Author John McHughFormat PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint Monkfish Book Publishing CompanyPublisher Monkfish Book Publishing Company

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

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...

Sage, scientist, and sorcerer, Hermes Trismegistus was the culture-hero of Hellenistic and Roman Egypt. A human (according to some) who had lived about the time of Moses, but now indisputably a god, he was credited with the authorship of numerous books...

An apostolic lifestyle characterized by total material renunciation, homelessness, and begging was practiced by monks throughout the Roman Empire in the fourth and fifth centuries. Such monks often served as spiritual advisors to urban aristocrats whose...

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 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...

The shroud of Turin is one of history's most controversial and perplexing relics. Many believe it to be the genuine burial shroud of Jesus Christ. Some hypothesize the image on the shroud was created through a rare scientific phenomenon. Still others...

This book is an attempt to explain, in lay terms, the world that Jesus took as his reference point. The kinds of houses in which he dwelt; the education he received; the clothes he would have worn; the language he spoke; the terrain and climate; the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506400105Author Tim DowleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Fortress Press,U.S.Publisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g

In this profoundly personal journey through British history, Martin Wall traces the influence of Magic and Myth from the earliest times to the present day. Our abiding myths have endured since before the time of the Druids, reaching their apotheosis in...

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...

In 1946 the first of the Dead Sea Scroll discoveries was made near the site of Qumran, at the northern end of the Dead Sea. Despite the much publicized delays in the publication and editing of the Scrolls, practically all of them had been made public by...

In modern times, various Jewish groups have argued whether Jewishness is a function of ethnicity, of nationality, of religion, or of all three. These fundamental conceptions were already in place in antiquity. The peculiar combination of ethnicity,...

Golden Mummies of Egypt presents new insights and a rich perspective on beliefs about the afterlife during an era when Egypt was part of the Greek and Roman worlds (c. 300 BCE-200 CE). This beautifully illustrated book, featuring photography by Julia...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936533480Author Joseph LumpkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Fifth Estate PublishingPublisher Fifth Estate PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578749877Author Christian WidenerFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint End Times Berean, LLCPublisher End Times Berean, LLCWeight(grams) 152g

Genealogy of the Pagan Gods by Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) is an ambitious work of humanistic scholarship whose goal is to plunder ancient and medieval literary sources so as to create a massive synthesis of Greek and Roman mythology. The work also...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780951885994Author Cheryl StraffonFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Meyn Mamvro PublicationsPublisher Meyn Mamvro PublicationsWeight(grams) 181g

Were first-century Jews expecting a messiah? Were other messiahs mentioned in the Dead Sea Scrolls? Were key early Christian symbols also found in the Judaism of Qumran? Did the Jews of Jesus's day believe in salvation by works? In the Holy Spirit? How...

No other god of the Greeks is as widely present in the monuments and nature of Greece and Italy, in the sensuous tradition of antiquity, as Dionysos. In myth and image, in visionary experience and ritual representation, the Greeks possessed a complete...

For the past 200 years archaeological work has provided new information that allows us to peer into the past and open chapters of human history that have not been read for centuries, or even millennia. In The Archaeology of the Bible James K...

The gods of Olympus died with the advent of Christianity--or so we have been taught to believe. But how are we to account for their tremendous popularity during the Renaissance? This illustrated book, now reprinted in a new, larger paperback format,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802848987Author Bruce W. WinterFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint 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 9781621386766Author Louis Charbonneau-LassayFormat PaperbackPage Count 586Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 889gDimensions(mm)...

There is more material available on Herakles than any other Greek god or hero. His story has many more episodes than those of other heroes, concerning his life and death as well as his battles with myriad monsters and other opponents. In literature, he...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781514010679Author Mark R. FairchildFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 308gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...