Antiquities & Archaeology

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870232060Author ApollodorusFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint University of Massachusetts PressPublisher University of Massachusetts...

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...

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...

How do divine names channel power? This project analyzes, first of all, the invocation of particular divine names (e.g., Jesus, Aphrodite) to access power for activities like healing, protecting, and harming. In so doing, it focuses on texts and...

Early Buddhist manuscript recording a previously unknown scholastic text about existenceThis volume offers a transcription, edition, translation, and analysis of a previously unknown scholastic text, an important discovery for scholars of early Indian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802884091Author Allan ChapmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint William B. Eerdmans Publishing CompanyPublisher William B. Eerdmans Publishing...

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)...

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 *...

A critical examination of the history of Israel. When did Israel begin? The origins of ancient Israel are shrouded in mystery, and those hoping to explore the issue must utilize resources from three different fields-archaeology, epigraphy, and biblical...

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 BC, 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, but they offer a...

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)...

This volume continues the detailed examination of the British Library Kharosthi scrolls--extremely fragile and brittle fragments of manuscript on birch-bark rolls. Although their provenance is uncertain, there are strong indications that they came from...

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...

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...

What activities did the women of ancient Greece perform in the sphere of ritual, and what were the meanings of such activities for them and their culture? By offering answers to these questions, this study aims to recover and reconstruct an important...

Hundreds of pilgrims set out from Europe to the Holy Land between 385 and 1099 AD, but of these only eighteen wrote descriptions which have survived. They provide essential background material for the history of Christianity in the Holy Land, as well...

Religion played a part in almost every aspect of civic life, so shrines, temples, altars, and dedications are conspicuous at almost every turn during a visit to the Athenian Agora. The author of this booklet shows where and how the major Olympian gods...

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...

The Sudarium of Oviedo throws new light on the last hours of Jesus of Nazareth. It provides a better understanding of the gospel John 20:5-7 and some characteristics of the Shroud of Turin that explain since when the use of the Sudarium is known. During...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788763546973Author Mette MoltesenFormat PaperbackPage Count 430Imprint Museum Tusculanum PressPublisher Museum Tusculanum PressDimensions(mm) 25mm * 17mm *...

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...

How do we understand religious spaces? What is their role or function within specific religious traditions or with respect to religious experience? This handbook brings together thirty-three essays addressing these questions using a range of methods and...

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,...

In this thoughtful and penetrating study, Sara Raup Johnson investigates the creation of historical fictions in a wide range of Hellenistic Jewish texts. Surveying so-called Jewish novels, including the Letter of Aristeas, 2 Maccabees, Esther, Daniel,...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736613405Author James D TaborFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Horeb PressPublisher Horeb PressWeight(grams) 390gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm * 12mm

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 *...

Conceived as a gorgeously illustrated accompaniment to "How Do We Look" and "The Eye of Faith," the famed Civilisations shows on PBS, renowned classicist Mary Beard has created this elegant volume on how we have looked at art. Focusing in Part I on the...