Ancient religions and Mythologies

A woman's life in the ancient world was constrained by her social and economic status.

Relationships are fundamental to our quality of life and we strive to understand them and make them better.

Evangelical Dissent in the early eighteenth century had to address a variety of intellectual challenges.

The figures and events of classical myths underpin our culture and the constellations named after them fill the night sky.

This volume examines the ways in which divination, often through oracular utterances and other mechanisms, linked mortals with the gods, and places the practice within the ancient sociopolitical and religious environment.

Guides the reader through the fascinating field of ancient Greek myth from its origins to modern interpretations in writing and film.

Tatian is a significant figure in the early Church, his work both representing and revealing his second-century context.

The Greeks and their Gods (1950) examines the question of what the Greeks thought to be the proper relationship between human and divine.

Beautiful, generative, loving, and deep: this may be the wisest Tarot book ever written.

The present volume was made possible by the Norwegian Research Council's generous funding of the Human Sacrifice and Value project (FRIPROHUMSAM 275947).

Since Freud published the Interpretation of Dreams in 1900 and utilized Sophocles' Oedipus Rex to work through his developing ideas about the psycho-sexual development of children, it has been virtually impossible to think about psychoanalysis without reference to classical myth.

Forms of Astonishment sets out to interpret a number of Greek myths about the transformations of humans and gods.

AUFSTIEG UND NIEDERGANG DER RÖMISCHEN WELT (ANRW) ist ein internationales Gemeinschaftswerk historischer Wissenschaften.

This study is the first full analysis of the Qumran wisdom texts.

The legends of early Rome are among the most memorable of any in the world.

In the past few decades there has been an explosion of interest in the period of late antiquity.

Applying the latest narratological theory and focusing on the use of anachrony (or 'chronological deviation'), this book explores how Statius competes – successfully – for a place within an established literary canon.

This volume contains the collected papers of Albert Henrichs on numerous subjects in ancient Greek myth and religion.

This study analyses the so-called magical hymns from Graeco-Roman Egypt to re-examine questions of cultural identity and religious plurality.

This is the first major study devoted to the early Arabic reception and adaption of the figure of Hermes Trismegistus, the legendary Egyptian sage to whom were ascribed numerous works on astrology, alchemy, talismans, medicine, and philosophy.

In The Moral Psychology of Clement of Alexandria, Kathleen Gibbons proposes a new approach to Clement's moral philosophy and explores how his construction of Christianity's relationship with Jewishness informed, and was informed by, his philosophical project.

Magic and the Supernatural in Fourth Century Syria presents an in-depth investigation of a variety of 'magical' practices with a focused study in the late antique Syria and Palestine.

Simone Weil (1909-1943) is one of the most brilliant and unorthodox religious and philosophical minds of the twentieth century.

Rome's Capitoline Hill was the smallest of the Seven Hills of Rome.

This volume examines biblical wisdom literature both in its historical context and as it relates to a host of contemporary themes, including overcoming social divisions, reading from a place of inclusion, healing from trauma, and challenging religious attitudes toward climate change and animals.

This English translation of Giorgio Buccellati's ambitious work offers readers an insightful discussion of ancient Mesopotamian religion and spirituality in its relationship to the biblical ethos.

Said to contain the words of the earliest of the biblical prophets (8th century BCE), the book of Amos is reinterpreted by the author in light of new and sometimes controversial historical approaches to the Bible.

God is unbounded.

Christian communities flourished during late antiquity in a Zoroastrian political system, known as the Iranian Empire, that integrated culturally and geographically disparate territories from Arabia to Afghanistan into its institutions and networks.

This new title by Kate West, bestselling author of The Real Witches' Handbook, will contain masses of spells and rituals for celebrations marking the seasons and festivals of the year, as well as a wealth of other information about magic for the initiated or the beginner alike.

This book is a study of Salpuri-Chum, a traditional Korean dance for expelling evil spirits.

Die „Erzählung über die Seele“ ist die 6.

This book explores the role of ritual in social life, human evolution, and religion.

Reading Ecclesiastes explores the literary style and themes of the Book of Ecclesiastes, investigating its overall theological messages and the cultural perspectives which readers bring to bear on their act of reading.

This title is part of UC Presss 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.

The humanitarian concerns of the biblical slave laws and their rhetorical techniques rarely receive scholarly attention, especially the two slave laws in Deuteronomy.

This book explores Cassian's use of scripture in the Conferences, especially its biblical models to convey his understanding of the desert ideal to the monastic communities of Gaul.

Helen Rhee's outstanding work is the first book to bring together The Apologies and the semi-fictional Apocryphal Acts and Martyr Acts in a single study.

Divine Providence and Human Agency develops an understanding of God and God's relation to creation that perceives God as sovereign over creation while, at the same time, allowing for a meaningful notion of human freedom.

In diesem praktischen Ratgeber für die Weissagung mit Tarotkarten finden Anfänger:innen eine leicht verständliche Einführung in die Welt des Tarot.

Greek and Roman Gold and Silver Plate (1966) examines the history of ancient plate in the period from the Bronze Age to the fifth century A.

The central premise of this book is that biblical Hebrew narrative, in terms of its structure, tends to operate under similar mechanical constraints to those of a stage-play; wherein 'space' is central, characters are fluid, and 'objects' within the narrative tend to take on a deep internal significance.