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The Oxford Handbook of Religious Space Jeanne Halgren Kilde (Director of the Religious Studies Program, Director of the Religious Studies Program, University of Minnesota) 9780190874988
RRP: £122.50£110.56How 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... -
Hyperboles: The Rhetoric of Excess in Baroque Literature and Thought by Christopher D. Johnson
RRP: £23.95£19.54This book offers a detailed, comparatist defense of hyperbole in the Baroque period. Focusing on Spanish and Mexican lyric (Gongora, Quevedo, and Sor Juana), English drama (King Lear and translations of Seneca), and French philosophy (Descartes and... -
The Lord Who Is Half Woman: Ardhanarisvara in Indian and Feminist Perspective Ellen Goldberg 9780791453261
RRP: £24.78£21.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791453261Author Ellen GoldbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 193Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Shechem IV: The Persian-Hellenistic Pottery of Shechem/Tell Balat'ah by Nancy L. Lapp
RRP: £17.50£17.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780897570794Author Nancy L. LappFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint American Schools of Oriental ResearchPublisher American Schools of Oriental Research -
Landscapes, Gender, and Ritual Space: The Ancient Greek Experience by Susan Guettel Cole
RRP: £71.00£55.45The division of land and consolidation of territory that created the Greek polis also divided sacred from productive space, sharpened distinctions between purity and pollution, and created a ritual system premised on gender difference. Regional... -
Worshipping Virtues: Personification and the Divine in Ancient Greece by Emma Stafford 9781914535291
RRP: £25.00£23.78The culture of ancient Greece was thronged with personifications. In poetry and the visual arts, personified figures of what might seem abstractions claim our attention. The Greeks, in Dr Johnson's phrase, 'shock the mind by ascribing effects to... -
Byzantine Coins Influenced by the Shroud of Christ Giulio Fanti 9789814877886
RRP: £100.00£87.01Numerous studies have been carried out on Byzantine coins, but there are still no univocal interpretations on the details of the figures represented there and in particular on those relating to Jesus Christ. The information derived from the studies on... -
Phoenician Aniconism in Its Mediterranean and Ancient Near Eastern Contexts by Brian R Doak 9780884140979
RRP: £24.00£20.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884140979Author Brian R DoakFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint SBL PressPublisher SBL PressWeight(grams) 308g -
Archaeology of the Land of the Bible, Volume I: 10,000-586 B.C.E. Amihai Mazar 9780300140071
RRP: £42.50£41.28Every year thousands of enthusiasts, amateur and professional, spend the summer months digging in the sands of Israel hoping to find items that in some way relate to the places and events depicted in the Bible. This work looks at the history and... -
The Good Shepherd: Image, Meaning, and Power by Jennifer Awes Freeman 9781481315371
£43.84A statuette of Egyptian King Pepi formidably wielding a shepherd's crook stands in stark contrast to a fresco of an unassuming Orpheus-like youth gently hoisting a sheep around his shoulders. Both images, however, occupy an extensive tradition of... -
Women and Religion in the Ancient Near East and Asia Nicole Maria Brisch 9781501523601
RRP: £18.50£15.73The recent years have seen an upswing in studies of women in the ancient Near East and related areas. This volume, which is the result of a Danish-Japanese collaboration, seeks to highlight women as actors within the sphere of the religious. In ancient... -
The Making of a Heretic: Gender, Authority, and the Priscillianist Controversy Virginia Burrus 9780520414778
RRP: £80.00£61.89Silenced for 1,600 years, the "heretics" speak for themselves in this account of the Priscillianist controversy that began in fourth-century Spain. In a close examination of rediscovered texts, Virginia Burrus provides an unusual opportunity to explore... -
The Hero Cults of Sparta: Local Religion in a Greek City Nicolette A Pavlides 9781350198081
RRP: £28.99£24.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781350198081Author Nicolette A PavlidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Bloomsbury AcademicPublisher Bloomsbury AcademicWeight(grams) 454g -
The Underwater Basilica of Nicaea: Archaeology in the Birthplace of Christian Theology Mark R. Fairchild 9781514010679
RRP: £33.99£28.89Apologies 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) 340g -
The Fraud of Turin James Francis DAy 9781634244756
RRP: £26.95£18.22What more is there to add about the Shroud of Turin? The linen cloth with the faint image of the crucified Jesus in the position of burial is perhaps more popular today than at any other time. But the Shroud unlocks for us another world, a forgotten... -
Capernaum: Jews and Christians in the Ancient Village from the Time of Jesus to the Emergence of Islam Wally V. Cirafesi 9781506474564
RRP: £33.99£28.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506474564Author Wally V. CirafesiFormat HardbackPage Count 289Imprint Fortress Press,U.S.Publisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g