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Zahi Hawass

Mountains of the Pharaohs

""Nearly five thousand years ago, the fourth dynasty of Egypt's Old Kingdom reigned over a highly advanced civilization. Believed to be gods, the royal family lived amid colossal palaces and tem…

K P S Janssen

Marginalized Religion and the Law in the Roman Empire

Marginalized Religion and the Law in the Roman Empire investigates how members of various marginalized religious groups were embedded in, and interacted with, the wider Roman legal system. K. P. S. Jansse…

Exhortation to the Monks by Hyperechios

"Hyperechios is a little-known monk of the fourth to fifth centuries, who is thought to have lived in Roman Palestine, possibly coastal Sinai. He wrote the Exhortation to the monks, 160 short sayings…

Monastic Economies in Late Antique Egypt and Palestine

"Reveals that Late Antique monasteries in Egypt and Palestine were actively engaged in regional societies, contradictory to the traditional understanding of monastic life as 'isolated'. Draws on the …

Jeremy Mcinerney

Centaurs and Snake-Kings

"Combining scholarship with readability, Jeremy McInerney's wide-ranging, stimulating new book uncovers the complexity and potency of ancient hybridity. Hybrids, McInerney reveals, confuse categories…

Sarah Iles Johnston,

Von Göttern und Menschen

Die griechischen Sagen neu erzählt ? für eine neue GenerationDie griechischen Sagen gehören mit ihren zeitlosen Bildern und Geschichten zum Erbe der Menschheit. Sarah Iles Johnston hat auf der Grundlage e…

Judah D Galinsky

The Making of a Medieval Bestseller

This study is a history of a medieval bestseller--Rabbi Isaac of Corbeil's handbook of accessible religious law relevant to Jews living in the Diaspora in medieval times. Galinsky describes how it came in…

Elaine Pagels

Miracles and Wonder

"Over the past two thousand years, countless personalities have been projected onto the enigma we know as Jesus: a first-century rabbi, capable of miraculous healing, or a magician faking cures; a Pr…

El-Sayed El-Aswad

Religion and the Invisible World

A broad critical history of the transformation of religious thought in Egypt from ancient to modern periodsWhen a civilization disappears, its heritage does not vanish. It survives in different potentiall…

Barbara Thompson (1944-2022)

Everlasting Flame

Erin Vearncombe, Brandon Scott, Hal Taussig, The Westar Institute

After Jesus Before Christianity

From the creative minds of the scholarly group behind the groundbreaking Jesus Seminar comes this provocative and eye-opening look at the roots of Christianity that offers a thoughtful reconsideration of …

Vulgata 01. Genesis - Exodus - Leviticus - Numeri - Deuteronomium

Dies ist die erste zweisprachige Ausgabe der kompletten Vulgata mit deutscher Übersetzung. Bei der Vulgata handelt es sich um die seit der Spätantike am weitesten verbreitete lateinische Übersetzung der B…

Mary Beard,

Die Kaiser von Rom

Der New York Times-Bestseller von Mary Beard über die römischen Kaiservon Augustus bis Caligula, von Nero, bis Vespasian. Nach ihrem Bestseller >>SPQR<< , in dem über den Senat und das Volk vo…

Erica Weaver

The Hermeneutics of Distraction in Early Medieval England

This book writes the cultural and intellectual history of distraction through the study of the affective practices of a particular community of medieval writers and readers: the influential circle of Æthe…

Jed W Atkins

The Christian Origins of Tolerance

This book presents an account of tolerance that differs from the standard liberal narrative. Jed Atkins recovers tolerance's beginnings in a forgotten North African Christian tradition from the first five…

T&t Clark Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism Volume Two

Winner of the 2020 Biblical Foundations Book Award, ReferenceThe T&T Clark Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism provides a comprehensive reference resource of over 600 scholarly articles aimed at sch…

T&t Clark Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism Volume One

This award-winning reference resource, with over 400 contributors from diverse academic backgrounds, provides the most complete guide to the literary, historical, and geographical contexts of early Judais…

Roberta Mazza

Stolen Fragments

"In 2012, Steve Green, billionaire and president of the Hobby Lobby chain of craft stores, announced a recent purchase of a Biblical artefact - a fragment of papyrus, just discovered, carrying lines …

Sarah Bowden

Writing Sin in the German Lands, 1050-1215

This book is about the relationship between dealing with sin and writing poetry in the Middle Ages; focusing particularly on twelfth-century Germany, it discusses how people performed penance and thought …