Antiquities & Archaeology

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780688052799Author Rhoda HendricksFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

In 2002 a burial box of skeletal remains purchased anonymously from the black market was identified as the ossuary of James, the brother of Jesus. Transformed by the media into a religious and historical relic overnight, the artifact made its way to the...

Most modern studies of Athenian religion have focused on festivals, cult practices, and individual deities. Jon Mikalson turns instead to the religious beliefs citizens of Athens spoke of and acted upon in everyday life. He uses evidence only from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990645726Author Edward Conklin Ph DFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Edward ConklinPublisher Edward ConklinWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995722538Author Michael HearnsFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Michael HearnsPublisher Michael HearnsWeight(grams) 367gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393005431Author R M OgilvieFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint W. W. Norton & CompanyPublisher W. W. Norton & CompanyWeight(grams) 177g

This innovative study sheds new light on one of the most spectacular changes to occur in late antiquity--the rise of pilgrimage all over the Christian world--by setting the phenomenon against the wide background of the political and theological debates...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934537343Author Rod L MeldrumFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Digital Legend PressPublisher Digital Legend PressWeight(grams) 381gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789652208675Author Michael Avi-YonahFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Carta - The Israel Map and Publishing Co. Ltd.Publisher Carta, The Israel Map &...

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...

The ancient Athenians were "quarrelsome as friends, treacherous as neighbors, brutal as masters, faithless as servants, shallow as lovers--all of which was in part redeemed by their intelligence and creativity." Thus writes Philip Slater in...

This landmark contribution to ongoing debates about perceptions of the Jews in antiquity examines the attitudes of Greek writers of the Hellenistic period toward the Jewish people. Among the leading Greek intellectuals who devoted special attention to...

This landmark contribution to ongoing debates about perceptions of the Jews in antiquity examines the attitudes of Greek writers of the Hellenistic period toward the Jewish people. Among the leading Greek intellectuals who devoted special attention to...

Among maternal deities of the Greek pantheon, the Mother of the Gods was a paradox. She is variously described as a devoted mother, a chaste wife, an impassioned lover, and a virgin daughter; she is said to be both foreign and familiar to the Greeks. In...

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...

A key figure in late antique Gaul, Sidonius Apollinaris - aristocrat, administrator, poet, letter-writer, and bishop - is still insufficiently understood. This study aims to contribute to an up-to-date appreciation, both by incorporating recent research...

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...

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

A photograph, map, or diagram illustrates the text for every site described in this pilgrimage to Palestine, beginning with places connected with John the Baptist and proceeding to Bethlehem and Nazareth, Samaria and Galilee, Jerash, Caesarea, Jericho,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789652208750Author Michael Avi-YonahFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Carta - The Israel Map and Publishing Co. Ltd.Publisher Carta, The Israel Map &...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorJay Johnston and Iain Gardner, University of Sydney, Australia. Book InformationISBN 9783110477283Author Jay JohnstonFormat HardbackPage Count 281Imprint De...

The archaeological sounding on the site of the Colegio del Pilar in the Old City of Jerusalem in 1996 was a salvage excavation, suspended for administrative reasons. The present publication offers the results of a rare archaeological...

The articles in this publication are presentations given during and offered to the Colloquium Material Aspects of Etruscan Religion, organised by the Faculty of Archaeology of Leiden University on 29 and 30 May 2008. They shed much new light upon...

This ninth archaeological report of the Leon Levy Expedition presents the material remains of Ashkelon's Hellenistic-period occupation. Drawing together contributions from a range of specialists, it adduces the evidence from Ashkelon's material record to...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783161476761Author Jan M BremerFormat HardbackPage Count 411Imprint JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck)Publisher JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck)Weight(grams) 798g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783161475276Author William FurleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 433Imprint JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck)Publisher Mohr SiebeckWeight(grams) 667g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783161475542Author Jan M BremerFormat PaperbackPage Count 443Imprint JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck)Publisher JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck)Weight(grams) 680g

This book studies Natha Sampradaya through archaeological evidence for the first time. Drawing on a pioneering approach to the study of ascetic traditions, it investigates not only the nature of the Sampradaya's religious architecture but also examines...

In this second lecture extracted from Sayce's Origin and Growth of Religion, the renowned Assyriologist specifically considers the Babylonian deity Bel-Merodach. Noting that Cyrus the Great was a worshipper of this deity, the outlook of the priesthood of...

Focusing on the interplay between domestic-level changes and region-wide interaction, this book provides a comprehensive analytical and theoretical survey of Iranian foreign relations in the Middle East from Antiquity until the Islamic Republic. It...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578630779Author Mike BrennerFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint IntentionsPublisher IntentionsWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789652208811Author Leen RitmeyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Carta - The Israel Map and Publishing Co. Ltd.Publisher Carta, The Israel Map &...

This volume brings together studies of Ephesos-a major city in the Greco-Roman period and a primary center for the spread of Christianity into the Western world-by an international array of scholars from the fields of classics, fine arts, history of...

Herod the Great, one of the most famous builders of the biblical world, is a name well known to readers of the New Testament. Recently a team led by Ehud Netzer, a leading Israeli archaeologist of the Herodian period, discovered the tomb of Herod. Netzer...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447107815Author Jens KamlahFormat HardbackPage Count 582Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher Harrassowitz

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780897570770Author Marylinda GovaarsFormat HardbackPage Count 305Imprint American Schools of Oriental ResearchPublisher American Schools of Oriental Research

How did an ancient mythological figure who stole fire from the gods become a face of the modern, lending his name to trailblazing spaceships and radical publishing outfits alike? How did Prometheus come to represent a notion of civilizational progress...