Antiquities & Archaeology

Bringing together nationally and internationally-known scholars, The Museum of the Bible: A Critical Introduction analyzes the newly opened Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., from a variety of perspectives and disciplinary positions, including...

The most impressive legacy of the Dynasty of Akkade (ca. 2310-2160 B.C.E.) was the widespread, popular legends of its kings. Dr. Westenholz offers an annotated edition of all the known legends of the Akkadian kings, with transliteration, translation, and...

Delivered in 1946, these lectures discuss the use of textual criticisms in the attempt to recover the original text of Paul's Epistles. In particular, there is a detailed analysis of the manuscript P46.Book InformationISBN 9780197258606Author G...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780395137147Author Mollie McLeanFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm * 14mm

Re-excavating Jerusalem: Archival Archaeology is concerned with the archaeology and history of Jerusalem, and with the story of its people over many centuries. It is a story of ongoing crisis, of adaptations and inheritance under successive rulers, where...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789814968133Author Cesar BartaFormat HardbackPage Count 500Imprint Jenny Stanford PublishingPublisher Jenny Stanford PublishingWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788763546973Author Marjatta NielsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 430Imprint Museum Tusculanum PressPublisher Museum Tusculanum Press

1001 years as a continuous settlement, 100 years as a modern city, Cairo in the 1970s is a complex metropolis. Janet Abu-Lughod traces the social and demographic history of Cairo, demonstrating the continuities and transformations that underlie the...

In his final accomplishment of an extraordinarily distinguished career, James W. McKinnon considers the musical practices of the early Church in this incisive examination of the history of Christian chant from the years a.d. 200 to 800. The result is an...

Research on the folklore genre of charms became extremely dynamic around the turn of the millennium. A number of academic disciplines allied to explore manuscripts about healing and other textual relics of verbal magic from antiquity and the middle ages...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506488608Author Carol MeyersFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Fortress Press,U.S.Publisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g

In Jesus and the Ossuaries , Craig A. Evans helps all readers, expert and layperson alike, understand the importance this recent find might have for the quest for the historical Jesus and any historical reconstruction of early Christianity. Evans does...

Many reasons can be given for the rise of Christianity in late antiquity and its flourishing in the medieval world. In asking how Christianity succeeded in becoming the dominant ideology in the unpromising circumstances of the Roman Empire, Averil...

In his historical-archaeological study, Yamauchi explains Persian history and culture in the context of biblical accounts, enlarging upon this connection in brief discussions of numerous topics surrounding Persian rulers, seats of government, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802841933Author Florentino Garcia MartinezFormat PaperbackPage Count 519Imprint 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 9781479615759Author Jonathan GrayFormat HardbackPage Count 604Imprint Teach Services, Inc.Publisher Teach Services, Inc.Weight(grams) 971g

This book presents an innovative approach to public archaeology in a rural community, which has had powerful results in terms of empowering a village community in Crete to become long-term guardians of their cultural heritage. Highlighting the...

From two leading Christian apologists, here is a fascinating survey of the most important Old and New Testament archaeological discoveries through the ages.Biblical archaeology has always stirred excitement among believers and curiosity among unbelievers...

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 9781515796190Author Eric BraunFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Capstone PressPublisher Capstone Press

In Western tradition, St. George is known as the dragon slayer. In the Middle East, he is called Khidr ("Green One"), and in addition to being a dragon slayer, he is also somehow the prophet Elijah. In this book, Robert D. Miller II untangles these...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802848802Author James H. CharlesworthFormat PaperbackPage Count 739Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing...

In the religious systems of ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Mediterranean, gods and demigods were neither abstract nor distant, but communicated with mankind through signs and active intervention. Men and women were thus eager to interpret, appeal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592442300Author Prof Edwin M YamauchiFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621641315Author Grzegorz GornyFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Ignatius PressPublisher Ignatius PressWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 155mm...

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...

Asceticism and Anthropology in Irenaeus and Clement examines the ways in which Irenaeus and Clement understood what it means to be human. By exploring these writings from within their own theological perspectives, John Behr also offers a theological...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983907213Author Karl W. LuckertFormat HardbackPage Count 348Imprint TriplehoodPublisher TriplehoodWeight(grams) 681g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983907220Author Karl W. LuckertFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint TriplehoodPublisher TriplehoodWeight(grams) 512gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 19mm

Many people today are familiar with archaeolognical undertakings in the land of the Bible and the fascinating objects that have been discovered. However, the process of archaeology is generally not well understood. How do excavators know where to dig?...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532697630Author E S DrowerFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm)...

This is a survey of the religious attitudes reflected in Latin literature from the late Republic to the time of Constantine. Its main theme is the development of the Roman public religion in that period. Within this theme the most pervasive issue is the...

Bringing together nationally and internationally-known scholars, The Museum of the Bible: A Critical Introduction analyzes the newly opened Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., from a variety of perspectives and disciplinary positions, including...

A Stanford University Press classic.Book InformationISBN 9780804721714Author Jean-Joseph GouxFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Stanford University PressPublisher Stanford University PressWeight(grams) 308g

The fifteen hagiographies about holy women of the Syrian Orient collected here include stories of martyrs' passions and saints' lives, pious romances and personal reminiscences. Dating from the fourth to seventh centuries A.D., they are translated from...

This provocative work provides a radical reassessment of the emergence and nature of Christian sexual morality, the dominant moral paradigm in Western society since late antiquity. While many scholars, including Michel Foucault, have found the basis of...

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)...

For the Greeks, the sharing of cooked meats was the fundamental communal act, so that to become vegetarian was a way of refusing society. It follows that the roasting or cooking of meat was a political act, as the division of portions asserted a social...

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