Antiquities & Archaeology

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780890514689Author John AshtonFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Master BooksPublisher Master Books

The information presented in this book will startle the world. For centuries, the authenticity of the Holy Shroud has been argued about. Skeptics push their negative opinion based on a few highly questionable clues, while the authenticists continue to...

In this exploration of the "very first utterance of philosophers," F. M. Cornford showed that the remarkable burst of abstract speculation among pre-Socratic thinkers of the sixth century B.C. emerged directly from the religious thought of the preceding...

Roman women were the procreators and nurturers of life, both in the domestic world of the family and in the larger sphere of the state. Although deterred from participating in most aspects of public life, women played an essential role in public...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802866202Author Sidnie White CrawfordFormat HardbackPage Count 406Imprint 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 9780316223348Author Edith HamiltonFormat HardbackPage Count 496Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams)...

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...

Worshippers of the Gods tells how the Latin writers who witnessed the political and social rise of Christianity rethought the role of traditional religion in the empire and city of Rome. In parallel with the empire's legal Christianisation, it traces...

Dancing in Moonlight is a full year of rituals, celebrations, and devotions for the Hellenic goddess Artemis. Groups and solitaries alike will find a new understanding of Artemis in these pages.Book InformationISBN 9780615188188Author Thista MinaiFormat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780941419420Author Pierre KlossowskiFormat HardbackPage Count 139Imprint Marsillo PublishersPublisher Marsillo Publishers

The Derveni papyrus is the oldest literary papyrus ever found, and one of the very few from Greece itself, which makes it one of the most interesting new texts from the ancient Greek world to have been discovered this century. The eschatological...

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The seven Manichaean papyrus codices of the fourth or fifth century were discovered in illicit excavation in 1929 in the Egyptian desert. They were acquired in about equal halves by A. Chester Beatty for his library and by Carl Schmidt for the papyrus...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592446957Author Heinrich EwaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams) 586g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780759654716Author J. Ray HuntFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 210g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884140993Author Brian R DoakFormat HardbackPage Count 206Imprint SBL PressPublisher SBL PressWeight(grams) 472g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780773408142Author Andrew GlickFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Em TextsPublisher Em TextsWeight(grams) 152g

The first book-length treatment of the most important, and controversial, inscription found in Israel in recent years. The inscription contains a possible mention of the name 'David' and is thought by many scholars to verify the existence of this king...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884142263Author Jose E Balcells GallarretaFormat HardbackImprint SBL PressPublisher SBL PressWeight(grams) 476g

The author discerns two distinct currents of personal religion, which he illustrates through striking instances of faith on the part of individual Greeks: popular piety, or the indirect approach to God through saints, idols, and images as intermediaries;...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994806031Author David Elton GravesFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Electonic Christian MediaPublisher Electonic Christian MediaWeight(grams) 445g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780964359529Author Daniel KikawaFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Aloha Ke AkuaPublisher Aloha Ke AkuaWeight(grams) 204g

The object of the present little book is to provide in connected form enough information to cover all the ordinary allusions met with, so that by reading it through, the student may get a conspectus of the whole field; while, by means of a copious index,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884143192Author Lidia MatassaFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint SBL PressPublisher SBL PressWeight(grams) 152g

Black Prometheus addresses the specific conditions under and the pointed implications with which an ancient story about different orders of gods dueling over the fate of humanity became such a prominent fixture of Atlantic modernity. The Prometheus myth,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781008986787Author Frederick DodsonFormat HardbackPage Count 340Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 667g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802824561Author Stanley E. PorterFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing Co

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060581176Author Hershel ShanksFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint HarperSanFranciscoPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 390g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692465349Author Jon R HaskellFormat PaperbackImprint Parson's PorchPublisher Parson's PorchWeight(grams) 227g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780891307020Author Lily Ross TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Oxford University Press IncPublisher Oxford University Press IncWeight(grams) 486g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802821737Author James K HoffmeierFormat PaperbackPage Count 403Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing Co

This compelling blend of science, history, politics, and biblical scholarship explains how modern archeology is challenging our understanding of the Bible and its accounts of ancient history.Book InformationISBN 9780316591621Author Amy Dockser...

Jerome Murphy-O'Connor has lived in Jerusalem for 48 years, during which time he has taught graduate students its history and archaeology, and also compiled a bestselling archaeological guidebook for visitors. The current volume provides an initial...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780292727489Author Keeper of Antiquities Lucilla BurnFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint University of Texas PressWeight(grams) 213g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088095096Author Robert Francis HarperFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 64g

Jewish anthropological beliefs during the Hellenistic-Roman period are an important but previously neglected area of biblical exegesis and Jewish studies. In an effort to address this deficiency, this volume brings together 20 essays related to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354200731Author John Denison BaldwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Lector HousePublisher Lector HouseWeight(grams) 156g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734143706Author Amanda MorganFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Amanda Morgan BooksPublisher Amanda Morgan BooksWeight(grams) 426g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935565000Author Thomas C WindesFormat PaperbackPage Count 458Imprint Arizona State MuseumPublisher Arizona State MuseumWeight(grams) 216g