Ancient religions and Mythologies

Facsimile of volume of detailed catalogs prepared by Flinders Petrie of ancient weights and measures based on examination of over 4000 Egyptian weights within his collections.

The emergence of Islam in the seventh century AD still polarises scholars who seek to separate religious truth from the historical reality with which it is associated.

This book intends to establish, against his numerous modern critics, that the ancient philosopher Parmenides was a mystic.

First Published in 2014.

Women's mobility is central to understanding cultural constructions of gender.

This study is the first to assemble the evidence for the existence of sorcerors in the ancient world; it also addresses the question of their identity and social origins.

Artemis is a literary, iconographic, and archaeological study of the ancient Greek goddess of the hunt, who presided over the transitions and mediations between the wild and the civilized, youth and maturity, life and death.

First published in 1921, this title examines the relationship between what the author labels the 'rationalist' element in Western culture on the one hand, derived from the ancient Greeks, and Christianity, on the other.

Saint Gregory of Nazianzus, also known as Gregory the Theologian, lived an illustrious life as an orator, poet, priest, and bishop.

'The Apostle Paul and His Letters' presents a detailed examination of the apostle's seminal writings in the Book of Acts.

This volume offers the most comprehensive survey available of the philosophical background to the works of early Christian writers and the development of early Christian doctrine.

With a focus on Asian traditions, this book examines varieties of thought and self-transformative practice that do not fit neatly on one side or another of the standard Western division between philosophy and religion.

DAS BUCH ZEHN beginnt mit Professor Weinrebs Gedanken zu den zehn Geboten und den ägyptischen Plagen.

Miracles in Greco-Roman Antiquity presents a collection in translation of miracle stories from the ancient world.

'Power and Responsibility in Biblical Interpretation' addresses the interpretive challenges now facing much biblical interpretation.

This edition of a Greek papyrus land survey presents a detailed picture of landholding in Upper Egypt under the Ptolemies.

Facsimile edition of the 1974 reissue of Flinders Petrie’s 1917 pioneering typological catalog of Egyptian name-scarabs and cylinders, one of a number of such catalogs to be reissued in this new series.

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.

THE INSTANT TIMES BESTSELLERAward-winning classicist and historian Emily Hauser takes readers on an epic journey to uncover the astonishing true story of the real women behind ancient Greece s greatest legends, and the real heroes of those ancient epics, Homer's Iliad and Odyssey .

In books lauded as brilliant, exhilarating and profound, Roberto Calasso has revealed the unexpected intersections of ancient and modern through topics ranging from Greek and Indian mythology to what a legendary African kingdom can tell us about the French Revolution.

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

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

In Ecclesiastes, the authorial voice of Qohelet presents an identity that has challenged readers for centuries.

This book offers a historical-materialist reading of the opening chapters of the book of Genesis in an attempt to revive their potential to engage people in truthful discussions about power and pleasure.

More than 60 pagan leaders and teachers describe in their own words what they believe and what they practice.

The essential handbook for everyone who is fascinated by the Tarot.

The Aesir are dead, and the Vanir, now uncontested in their divinity, come to claim what is left of the Nine Realms.

Conflicting claims to authority in relation to the translation and interpretation of the Bible have been a recurrent source of tension within the Christian church, and were a key issue in the Reformation debate.

This final book published in the Ashgate SOTS monograph series collects together for the first time in English translation a selection of important essays on central themes and texts in Old Testament criticism and exegesis by Rudolf Smend, one of the world's most eminent senior scholars in the field.

Does martyrdom hurt?

This, the first volume of Sir E.

A casual reader enters a bookshop looking for a Bible.

An earnest and careful analysis of East European folklore, history, and mythology, and a credible summary of Slavic paganism.

Scholars across many fields have come to realize that ritual is an integral element of human life and a vital aspect of all human societies.

Landed wealth was crucial for the economies of all Greek city-states and, despite its peculiarities, Athens was no exception in that respect.

Dieser Band versammelt Beiträge von namhaften europäischen und amerikanischen  Gelehrten auf dem Gebiet der Altertumswissenschaften und der Religionswissenschaften, die einen repräsentativen Querschnitt der zeitgenössischen Erforschung des Mythos, seiner Erscheinungsformen  und seiner Transformationen in  Griechenland, Rom und im Vorderen Orient von der Antike bis heute Epochen darbieten.

Christianity spread across North Africa early, and it remained there as a powerful force much longer than anticipated.

The Hebrew Bible offers a metaphor of marriage that portrays men and women as complementary, each with their distinct and 'natural' roles.