Antiquities & Archaeology

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...

This 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...

Apologies 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...

Apologies 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

The 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...

The 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...

Numerous 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...

Apologies 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

Every 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...

A 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...

The 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...

Silenced 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...

Apologies 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

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) 340g

What 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...

Apologies 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