Ancient history

Delve into the profound world of biblical wisdom with Qoheleth's Wisdom: The Poetics and Philosophy of Ecclesiastes.

Dorothy Eady, bekannt als Om Seti, führte ein Leben, das die Grenzen zwischen Wissenschaft und Mystik, Vergangenheit und Gegenwart verschwimmen ließ.

Presenting a wide range of new scholarly approaches, this is the first volume to critique the highly influential television series Xena: Warrior Princess.

An in-depth exploration of Rome's third-century crisis, examining its internal turmoil, external pressures, and transformative reforms.

An in-depth exploration of Rome's third-century crisis, examining its internal turmoil, external pressures, and transformative reforms.

In this sequel to Joyce Andrew's popular book, Bible Legacy of the Black Race: The Prophecy Fulfilled, three questions are raised:What happened to the history of Ham and his descendants (African Black nation)?

Exploring life, death, and the afterlife in Mesopotamia, Alhena Gadotti and Alexandra Kleinerman examine how life and death experiences continually developed over the course of nearly three millennia of Mesopotamian history.

Lucian's writings raise questions about the nature of reading and viewing the lives of others; this book explores these questions through close readings of Lucian's dialogues and stories.

In obedience to Jesus' command, 'Do this in remembrance of me', the ritual repetition of the Lord's Supper down through the ages and across multiple Christian cultures in the liturgies of East and West, has given rise, inevitably, to innumerable diversities of shape, text, cultural context, and theological interpretation, as well as to debates, sometimes heated, among modern experts as to the methodologies for resolving the problems arising from these differences.

When did the federal government's self-appointed, essentially limitless authority over Native America become constitutional?

This volume fills a gap in current research on the Hellenistic Peloponnese, complementing and challenging traditional interpretations by adopting new perspectives on its complex social and political history.

Die Sesshaftwerdung des Menschen markiert einen der bedeutendsten Wendepunkte der Menschheitsgeschichte.

Die Apostelgeschichte könnte auch den Titel tragen: "Die Taten von Jesus, 2.

Human olfaction - the sense of smell - enables us to appreciate food and drink, it warns us of dangers and it makes our environments more enjoyable.

The Near Eastern myths and tales are more than simply stories: they are windows into former civilizations, revealing how our forefathers regarded the world around them.

Hadrian – ein Kaiser, dessen Visionen die römische Geschichte nachhaltig prägten.

When did the federal government's self-appointed, essentially limitless authority over Native America become constitutional?

This selection of twenty-five essays by Andrew Smith is devoted to Neoplatonism and especially to Plotinus and Porphyry.

Biografía breve del famoso rey de Macedonia y conquistador de Asia (356-323 a.

The technological relationship between the three main civilizations of the Western world - Byzantium, the Islamic world and the West - most particularly in the area of arms, armour and military technology is a field of research for which Dr Nicolle is noted.

The context of this second volume by Professor Duval is the trinitarian controversies of the later 4th century.

Focusing on the Greek world during the high Roman Empire between the 1st and 3rd centuries CE, this edited volume examines the representation of space in literary, rhetorical, and mythographic texts of the period.