Antiquities & Archaeology

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606080924Author James B PritchardFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

Archaeologists have been increasingly turning their attention to the study of religion, but the field so far has lacked a cross-cultural overview. This text challenges archaeological conventions by refusing to respect the geographic and temporal...

In the fourth century b.c.e., the Athenians introduced to the sacred isle of Delos the habit of making marble inscriptions that noted "inventories" of goods in religious precincts. These inscriptions are now quite damaged and badly preserved,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985604592Author Gilbert TennentFormat PaperbackPage Count 934Imprint Defense PublishingPublisher Defense PublishingWeight(grams) 2132gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985604585Author Martin LutherFormat PaperbackPage Count 1016Imprint Defense PublishingPublisher Defense PublishingWeight(grams) 2313gDimensions(mm) 277mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555409432Author Vincent J. RosivachFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Oxford University Press IncPublisher Oxford University Press IncWeight(grams)...

Three Gandhari Ekottarikagama-Type Sutras continues the Gandharan Buddhist Texts studies of the first-century A.D. birch bark scrolls in the British Library's Kharosthi manuscript collection. It describes the text found on two fragments which constitute...

Religion is a particularly useful field within which to study Roman self-definition, for the Romans considered themselves to be the most religious of all peoples and ascribed their imperial success to their religiosity. This study builds on the...

From the Biblical record it is clear that the principal occupants of Palestine at the time of the advent of the Israelites were the Amorites and the Canaanites. Who were these two peoples? Excavations have shown that towards the end of the third...

From Hesiod's first person account of his encounters with the Muses on Mount Helikon to Theokritos' nymphs, love between goddesses and mortal men provides the ancient Greeks with a way of articulating both the genealogical and cultic connection to their...

Many of the world's first written records have been found in the area of the Ancient Near East, in what is today known as the Middle East. While many people are familiar with the ancient Israelite literature recorded in the Hebrew Bible, most Near...

Many of our religious beliefs are based upon faith alone, but archaeology gives us the opportunity to find evidence about what really happened in the past-evidence that can have a dramatic impact on what we believe and how we understand the Bible today...

This book discusses how Greek and South Italian vase paintings of the musical contest between Apollo and Marsyas became the model for Etruscan representations of Cacus ambushed by the Vibennae brothers, two Etruscan heroes of the sixth century B.C. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789652208729Author Shelley WachsmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Carta,The Israel Map & Publishing Company Ltd,IsraelPublisher Carta,The Israel Map...

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...

In Vergil's Aeneid, the poet implies that those who have been initiated into mystery cults enjoy a blessed situation both in life and after death. This collection of essays brings new insight to the study of mystic cults in the ancient world,...

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...

This book examines one of the most intriguing figures in the religious life of the ancient Mediterranean world, the Phrygian Mother Goddess, known to the Greeks and Romans as Cybele or Magna Mater, the Great Mother. Her cult was particularly prominent in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578748825Author Christian WidenerFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint End Times Berean, LLCPublisher End Times Berean, LLCWeight(grams) 152g

A provocative account of Jewish encounters with the public baths of ancient RomePublic bathhouses embodied the Roman way of life, from food and fashion to sculpture and sports. The most popular institution of the ancient Mediterranean world, the baths...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062206428Author Chanan TigayFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

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...

The biblical image of Eve has powerfully influenced ideas about women for the past two millennia. Yet, as Carol Meyers argues in Discovering Eve, the image of the first of women as subservient and dependent does not represent some irreducible historical...

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 9780578523217Author Miles R JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Institute for Accelerated Learning, Inc.Publisher Institute for Accelerated Learning,...

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...

This selection of sixteen Greek myths provides tales of adventure, courage and mystery. Geraldine McCaughrean's re-telling captures the excitement and magic of these stories and makes them accessible for Key Stage 3 pupils. Age 10+ In the Beginning and...

This selection of sixteen Greek myths provides tales of adventure, courage and mystery. Geraldine McCaughrean's re-telling captures the excitement and magic of these stories and makes them accessible for Key Stage 3 pupils. Age 10+ In the Beginning and...

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) 971gDimensions(mm)...

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 9780794819163Author Arthur L FriedbergFormat HardbackImprint Whitman PubPublisher Whitman PubWeight(grams) 422gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 155mm * 15mm

The definitive guide to the life of the first woman to play a major role in Greek political history, this is the first modern biography of Olympias.Presenting a critical assessment of a fascinating and wholly misunderstood figure, Elizabeth Carney...