Antiquities category: 284 books
Creating a Common Polity
Religion, Economy, and Politics in the Making of the Greek Koinon
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
In the ancient Greece of Pericles and Plato, the polis, or city-state, reigned supreme, but by the time of Alexander, nearly half of the mainland Greek city-states had surrendered part of their autonomy to join the larger political entities called koina. In the first book in fifty years to tackle...
by AA. VV.
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2015
In the following pages certain things supposed to be of comparatively modern origin have been traced back to the remotest historic ages of the world; as a consequence, it follows that the modern symbolical meaning given to such things is sometimes only one acquired in subsequent times, and not that...
Conversion and Initiation in Antiquity
Shifting Identities Creating Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
For decades, Arthur D. Nock’s famous definition of conversion and his distinction between conversion and adhesion have greatly influenced our understanding of individual religious transformation in the ancient world. The articles in this volume – originally presented as papers at the conference...
The Life of Augustine of Hippo
Part Three: The Pelagian Crisis (411430)
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
The seventeenth century was the century of Saint Augustine. In 1695, Louis Sébastien, Le Nain de Tillemont, finished volume 13 of his Mémoires ecclésiastique, entitled La vie de saint Augustin. The volume consisted of approximately 1200 pages wherein Louis Sébastien gathered from the works of...
Controlling Contested Places
Late Antique Antioch and the Spatial Politics of Religious Controversy
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2014
From constructing new buildings to describing rival-controlled areas as morally and physically dangerous, leaders in late antiquity fundamentally shaped their physical environment and thus the events that unfolded within it. Controlling Contested Places maps the city of Antioch (Antakya, Turkey) through...
by Jair Da Silva Lima
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: February 26, 2014
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: February 26, 2014
Atualizado para a versão 1.08 A ordem atual da Bíblia foi compilada segundo a tradição hebraica (Antigo Testamento) e também segundo os concílios das Igrejas Primitivas (Novo Testamento); sendo assim, não foi seguido a ordem dos acontecimentos. Daí, surgiu então a necessidade de um livro...
Shamanism and the Ancient Mind
A Cognitive Approach to Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2002
Pearson brings a cogent, well-argued case for the understanding of much prehistoric art as shamanistic practice. Using the theoretical premises of cognitive archaeology and a careful examination of rock art worldwide, Pearson is able to dismiss other theories of why ancient peoples produced art_totemism,...
by Arthur Edward Waite
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
The Graal legends are comparable to certain distinct literatures with which the theory here put forward will connect them by a twofold consanguinity of purpose. Scholarship had scarcely troubled itself with the great books of Kabalism till it was found or conceived that they could be made to enforce...
Migrating Tales
The Talmud's Narratives and Their Historical Context
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
Migrating Tales situates the Babylonian Talmud, or Bavli, in its cultural context by reading several rich rabbinic stories against the background of Greek, Syriac, Arabic, Persian, and Mesopotamian literature of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages, much of it Christian in origin. In this nuanced...
Theodoret's People
Social Networks and Religious Conflict in Late Roman Syria
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
Theodoret’s People sheds new light on religious clashes of the mid-fifth century regarding the nature (or natures) of Christ. Adam M. Schor focuses on Theodoret, bishop of Cyrrhus, his Syrian allies, and his opponents, led by Alexandrian bishops Cyril and Dioscorus. Although both sets of clerics...
Truly Beyond Wonders
Aelius Aristides and the Cult of Asklepios
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2010
In Truly Beyond Wonders Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis investigates texts and material evidence associated with healing pilgrimage in the Roman empire during the second century AD. Her focus is upon one particular pilgrim, the famous orator Aelius Aristides, whose Sacred Tales, his fascinating account of...
The Archaeology of Sacred Spaces
The temple in western India, 2nd century BCE–8th century CE
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
This volume focuses on the religious shrine in western India as an institution of cultural integration in the period spanning 200 BCE to 800 CE. It presents an analysis of religious architecture at multiple levels, both temporal and spatial, and distinguishes it as a ritual instrument that integrates...
Israel in Egypt
The Evidence for the Authenticity of the Exodus Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 1999
Scholars of the Hebrew Bible have in the last decade begun to question the historical accuracy of the Israelite sojourn in Egypt, as described in the book of Exodus. The reason for the rejection of the exodus tradition is said to be the lack of historical and archaeological evidence in Egypt. Those...
by Valentino Bellucci
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 20, 2016
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 20, 2016
La dott rina della reincarnazione non si trova solo nelle tradizioni orientali ma anche nei fi losofi greci, a partire da Pitagora fi no ad interessare uomini come Voltaire, Goethe e Mazzini. In realtà tale dott rina è presente in ogni tradizione mistica, nella Cabbalà ebraica e nel sufismo islamico....