Ancient religions and Mythologies

This is the first volume of essays published on the television series Troy: Fall of a City (BBC One and Netflix, 2018).

DAS BUCH ZWEI beschäftigt sich mit Polaritäten: Innen und Aussen, Seele und Körper, Oben und Unten, Yin und Yang, Gut und Böse, Belohnung und Bestrafung.

First published in 1959, The People of the Dead Sea Scrolls gives a complete pictorial record of the dramatic story of the Dead Sea Scrolls - actually shows the places where the Scrolls were found, as well as the desert and caves in which the people of the Scrolls lived just before the dawn of Christianity.

To undestand the success of the Romans you must understand their piety.

A guide to Iceland's rich literary heritage - from Norse witches to contemporary crime fiction.

A History of the Roman World from 30 B.

Music in Religious Cults of the Ancient Near East presents the first extended discussion of the relationship between music and cultic worship in ancient western Asia.

Phrygia in the second and third centuries CE offers more vivid evidence for what has been termed ';lived ancient religion' than any other region in the ancient world.

Employing frameworks of lived religion and materiality, this book provides the first full-length study of personal religious experience in the Greek Archaic and Classical periods.

This work examines a centuries-long intellectual tradition in the early Latin church linking the imagery associated with the opening of the Seven Seals of the Apocalypse with programs of ecclesiastical expansion and ascetic reform.

Palestine of the Jews (1919) examines the history of Jewish Palestine, from 4,000 years ago to the early twentieth century and the Balfour Declaration.

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Was the New Testament written in the early first century CE or at a much later date?

Does martyrdom hurt?

Gunther Martin examines the references to religion in the speeches of Demosthenes and other Athenian orators in the 4th century BC.

This book offers a new, theoretically informed framework for the interpretation of ancient visual culture.

Humans throughout history have sought ways of understanding their place within the world.

Following the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 C.

The first Christians to meet Muslims were not Latin-speaking Christians from the western Mediterranean or Greek-speaking Christians from Constantinople but rather Christians from northern Mesopotamia who spoke the Aramaic dialect of Syriac.

Seers, Shrines and Sirens (1965) surveys the history of Greek religion during the great formative and revolutionary era of the sixth century BC.

The first Christians to meet Muslims were not Latin-speaking Christians from the western Mediterranean or Greek-speaking Christians from Constantinople but rather Christians from northern Mesopotamia who spoke the Aramaic dialect of Syriac.

The ancient world as a whole believed in the existence of a world of spirits beyond, or alongside, the visible, tangible world.

In the early sixth-century eastern Roman empire, anti-Chalcedonian leaders Severus of Antioch and Julian of Halicarnassus debated the nature of Jesuss body: Was it corruptible prior to its resurrection from the dead?

The twin deities known by the ancient Greeks as the Dioskouroi, and by the Romans as the Gemini, were popular figures in the classical world.

Pharaoh Akhenaten, who reigned for seventeen years in the fourteenth century B.

An important reconceptualisation is taking place in the way people express creativity, work together, and engage in labour; particularly, suggests Kidwell, a surprising resurgence in recent years of manual and craft work.

This book focuses on the authority and status of the author of Luke-Acts.

Paganism means living in harmony with nature and respecting all that nature has to offer.

Focusing on representations of Celtic motifs and traditions in post-1980s adult fantasy literature, this book illuminates how the historical, the mythological and the folkloric have served as inspiration for the fantastic in modern and popular culture of the western world.

This volume is part of the Changing Perspectives sub-series, which is constituted by anthologies of articles by world-renowned biblical scholars and historians that have made an impact on the field and changed its course during the last decades.

BORN TO RULE.

This book examines the personification of Wisdom as a female figure - a central motif in Proverbs, Job, Sirach, Wisdom and Baruch.

This collection of John Barton's work engages with current concern over the biblical canon, in both historical and theological aspects; with literary reading of the Bible and current literary theory as it bears on biblical studies; and with the theological reading and use of the biblical text.

Sacred Languages and Sacred Texts is the first comprehensive study of the role of languages and texts in the religions of the Greco-Roman world, including Judaism and Christianity.

El Kojiki o Crónicas de antiguos hechos es la primera obra literaria de Japón.

This is the first monograph to examine in detail the Ludi Saeculares (Secular Games) of Septimius Severus and argues that the games represented a radical shift from Antonine imperial ideology.

A pioneering interdisciplinary study of the art, production and social functions of Late Antique ritual artefacts.

How is prayer possible?

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Die in der Erforschung und Interpretation antiker Texte lange aufrechterhaltene Trennung von Religion und Literatur in zwei nicht interdependente Sphären ist anachronistisch.

In Pagans and Christians in Late Antiquity, A.

Taking advantage of critical methodology for history-writing and the use of anthropological insights and ethnographic data from the modern Middle East, this study aims at providing new understandings on the emergence of Israel in ancient Palestine and the socio-political dynamics at work in the Levant during antiquity.

• Revela el simbolismo y el significado adivinatorio de los 24 “pentagramas” rúnicos

• Proporciona instrucciones claras sobre cómo fabricar tus propias piedras rúnicas

• Explica el papel de las runas en la tradición de la sabiduría nórdica y su influencia en obras como El señor de los anillos de Tolkien

Las runas nórdicas son un sistema mágico potente y profundamente transformador que brinda a los lectores contemporáneos acceso a la antigua tradición de las culturas del norte de Europa.