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Paula Fredriksen

Ancient Christianities

How, over the course of five centuries, one particular god and one particular Christianity came to dominate late Roman imperial politics and pietyThe ancient Mediterranean teemed with gods. For centuries,…

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…

Unruly Books

This volume explores the idea of the unruly book, from books now known by their titles alone to books that subverted structures of power and gender. The contributors show how these books functioned as &qu…

Alex A Antoniou

Roman Priests from Republic to Empire

Roman Priests from Republic to Empire provides a reconceptualisation of the worth of priests and priesthoods in ancient Rome. The book is an essential resource in understanding the intersections between R…

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…

Unruly Books

This volume explores the idea of the unruly book, from books now known by their titles alone to books that subverted structures of power and gender. The contributors show how these books functioned as &qu…

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.

Porphyry Of Tyre,

On Theology and Theurgy

On Theology and Theurgy presents two fragmentary texts by Porphyry of Tyre, "Letter to Anebo" and "Philosophy from Oracles," in which he tries to bring philosophy to bear on religion, …

George C Manning

Anger in the Sagas of Icelanders^

George C. Manning examines the presentation of anger in the Íslendingasögur ('Sagas of Icelanders ') and associated Íslendingaþættir ('Tales of Icelanders '), a remarkable Old Norse-Icelandic corpus of te…

Huw Twiston Davies

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

"This open access book discusses texts and images from the Egyptian Book of the Dead, as well as other prayers and spells, found in tombs at the necropolis of Saqqara dating back to the New Kingdom (…

Thomas Radice

Ritual Performance in Early Chinese Thought

Examines performance as a fundamental feature of ritual in early Chinese thought and the ways in which performer/spectator relationships influenced early Chinese religious, ethical, and political discours…

Whit Dickey (geb. 1954)

Peace Planet & Box Of Light

Alhena Gadotti, Alexandra Kleinerman

Living and Dying in Mesopotamia

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 M…

Lingua Ignota

Sinner Get Ready

Y. Hayter ist Absolventin der School of the Art Institute of Chicago und hat einen MFA in Literarischer Kunst von der Brown University. Ein Großteil ihrer Arbeit dreht sich um Missbrauch. Als Überlebende …

Studying Religion, Past and Present

"In this book, renowned scholars discuss the past, present, and future of the study of religion in both antiquity and modernity, celebrating the contributions of Panayotis Pachis to the field. The co…

H P R Twiston Davies

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

T exts 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…

Harry Sidebottom

Those Who Are about to Die

See ancient Rome, and peer into the Roman mind, through the eyes of a gladiator--from the evening before the games at the Colosseum to the evening after"A grippingly original way of making the alien …

Hermeneutik(en) der Weisheit von der hebräischen Bibel bis in die islamische Zeit

Although scriptural discourses in late antiquity are eminently characterized by forms of wisdom thinking, wisdom is not yet an established category in Qur'anic and Islamic studies. The contributors to thi…