Antiquities & Archaeology

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...

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.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...

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

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 HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 1274g

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...

Includes 132 b/w figures and 6 tables. In the northwest quarter of the site of Caesarea Maritima is Field O, the location known as "the synagogue site and Jewish Quarter." Although excavated in 1956 and 1962, archaeologists and scholars researching the...

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...

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...

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...

Illustrated in b/w with 70 figures and 43 plates. This is the final publication of the Persian and Hellenistic pottery from the American Joint Expedition to Shechem, 1956-1968. Since these were the last periods of occupation of the site, most of the...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592442300Author Prof Edwin M YamauchiFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

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) 308gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 12mm

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...

Over the centuries, churches have acted as centres of community and they retain their importance today. Acting as a focus during times of tragedies and conflict, churches have also offered us throughout the ages a sense of permanence in an impermanent...

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

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This book studies Nātha sampradāya 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 Nātha sampradāya’s religious architecture but also...