Trefferliste "Ancient Religion" - alle Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr

Jacob L Mackey

Belief and Cult

A groundbreaking reinterpretation that draws on cognitive theory to show that belief wasn’t absent from—but rather was at the heart of—Roman religion Belief and Cult argues that belief isn’t uniquely Chr…

David A Desilva

Judea Under Greek and Roman Rule

Judea under Greek and Roman Rule provides a reconstruction of the history of Judea and its neighboring regions from 334 BCE, when Alexander's eastward conquests brought Judea into the Greek empire, throug…

J B Rives

Animal Sacrifice in the Roman Empire (31 Bce-395 Ce)

For over a thousand years, the practice of animal sacrifice held a central place in ancient Graeco-Roman culture as a means of both demonstrating piety to the gods and structuring social relationships. As…

Whit Dickey (geb. 1954)

Peace Planet & Box Of Light

Ancient Infinity Orchestra

River of Light

Das Ancient Infinity Orchestra ist ein 14-köpfiges Jazz-Ensemble unter der Leitung des Kontrabassisten und Komponisten Ozzy Moysey, das in der pulsierenden, kreativen Stadt Leeds im Norden Englands beheim…

The Oxford Handbook of Monsters in Classical Myth

The Oxford Handbook of Monsters in Classical Myth presents forty chapters about the unique and terrifying creatures from myths of the long-ago Near East and Mediterranean world, featuring authoritative co…

Stephen Crimi

Hermes Runs the Game

Hermes Runs the Game views the covid operation in terms of the Archaic Greek animal sacrifice, inverted, moving from the depths of ritual child sacrifice to the light of the ancient mystery traditions.

Huw Twiston Davies

The Transmission of the Book of the Dead in New Kingdom Tombs at Saqqara

Texts and images from the Book of the Dead were widely used to decorate the walls of tombs during Egypt's New Kingdom (c. 1550-1077 BCE). Prior research has tended to focus on either individual tombs, or …

Yiannis Gabriel

Greek Myths for a Post-Truth World

"This book examines what ancient Greek myths can teach us about the troubles and challenges of our 'post-truth' times: environmental degradation, mass migration, war, inequality, exclusion, authoritariani…

Thomas Kazen

Dirt, Shame, Status

"An examination of same-sex sexuality in the Bible in the context of ancient beliefs about power, honor, and purity"--

Steven Snape

Sacred Landscapes in Ancient Egypt

Explores the holy landscapes of Egypt, both in the natural world and the built landscape.

Kenneth Maly

A Refreshing and Rethinking Retrieval of Greek Thinking

This book presents a rethinking of Greek philosophy to offer the West a path to a more holistic and less conceptual understanding of the way things are.

Bernardo Ballesteros

Divine Assemblies in Early Greek and Babylonian Epic

This book is the first to chart divine assembly scenes in ancient Babylonian and early Greek epic. It asks why similarities between the two corpora exist, and exploits those similarities to enhance unders…

Michael Horton

Shaman and Sage

"The first volume of Michael Horton's magisterial intellectual history of "spiritual but not religious" as a phenomenon in Western culture. Discussions of the rapidly increasing number of people identifyi…

Wolfram Grajetzki

The Middle Kingdom of Ancient Egypt

"For the ancient Egyptians, the Middle Kingdom (c. 2000-1700 BC) was a classical period of art, history and literature. The Twelfth Dynasty was one of the strongest ever to rule on the banks of the Nile: …

Confronting Identities in the Roman Empire

"This open access edited volume offers an understanding of how ancient texts, ranging from the historical and biographical to the oratorical and epistolary, demonstrate the negotiation and renegotiation o…

John Surman & Jack DeJohnette

The Amazing Adventures Of Simon Simon (Touchstones)

John Surman und Jack DeJohnette waren schon seit 1968 musikalische Weggefährten, nahmen jedoch erst 1981 mit The Amazing Adventures Of Simon Simon ihr erstes Duo-Album auf. Die Leser von Jazz Forum wählte…

Jonathan S Burgess

The Travels of Odysseus

The various travels of the hero Odysseus are explored to contextualize Homer's Odyssey and analyze the nature of the hero's character.

James Napier

Folk lore, or, Superstitious beliefs in the west of Scotland within this century: with an appendix shewing the probable relation of the modern festivals of Christmas, May Day, St. John's Day, and Halloween, to ancient sun and fire worship

Reprint of the original, first published in 1879. The Antigonos publishing house specialises in the publication of reprints of historical books. We make sure that these works are made available to the pub…