Antiquities category: 284 books
by Frederick Augustus Vanderburgh
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
The gods honored in the hymns treated in the following Thesis are Bêl, Sin (Nannar), Adad (Ramman) and Tammuz, all deities of the old Babylonian pantheon, representing different phases of personality and force, conceived of as incorporated in nature and as affecting the destinies of men. These gods...
Proving Biblical Nazareth
Evidence for the Key Sites of Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
“This book provides challenging material that requires a re-think on the understanding of traditional Nazareth. The historical analysis has good *correlation to biblical time frames.” ~ *Dr. Murray Adamthwaite, Historian, Theologian, Linguist.
The centre of modern Nazareth has...
Scenting Salvation
Ancient Christianity and the Olfactory Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2006
This book explores the role of bodily, sensory experience in early Christianity (first – seventh centuries AD) by focusing on the importance of smell in ancient Mediterranean culture. Following its legalization in the fourth century Roman Empire, Christianity cultivated a dramatically flourishing...
Hermaphrodites, Gynomorphs and Jesus
She-Male Gods and the Roots of Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
The first western god was both male and female. All of western religion springs from the veneration of a bi-gender entity, known to the ancient world as the Gynomorph. The worship of hermaphroditic gods like the Gynomorph surfaces in ancient pagan cults as well as early Christianity.
The celebration...
by Richie Cooley
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2017
In this issue of Bible Prophecy Digest:
Recent scientific discoveries and archaeological finds converge to push the world slightly more towards lukewarm Judeo-Christianity.
by Becca Blackwelder
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Usually $7.99, this book has been discounted at request of the author to $2.99. Becca Blackwelder would like anyone interested in the Creation -Evolution debate to be able to afford the reading.
With Bill Nye the Science Guy and Ken Ham (Creationist) debating at the Kentucky Creation Museum...
The Stones Bear Witness
A Journey Through Archaeological Israel
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
Critics of the Bible today often say, Science has disproved the Bible. Others say that there is no evidence to support that the Bible is anything more than a book of myths and fables. But the science of archaeology is seldom mentioned by these critics. Even though no provable archaeological discovery...
by Lamontte M. Luker
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
As the geographic heart and soul of Judaism, Islam, and Christianity, the Holy Land has immense significance for the millions of visitors each year. But since the fifth century BC, enthusiastic and curious people have needed a guide as they travel to see the sites for themselves. This book is different...
Kings of the Grail
Tracing the Historic Journey of the Cup of Christ from Jerusalem to Modern-Day Spain
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
“Stand down, Indiana Jones: these two historians say the holy grail has been discovered . . . A ride rich in historical detail” (Publishers Weekly).
Recently discovered parchments in the Egyptian University of Al-Azhar have finally made it possible to identify where the Holy Grail has been...
by J. Julius Jr. Scott
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2000
This survey of intertestamental Judaism illuminates the customs and controversies that provide essential background for understanding the New Testament. Scott opens a door into the Jewish world and literature leading up to the development of Christianity. He also offers an accessible overview of the...
by Lucio Tarzariol
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 18, 2017
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 18, 2017
Gesù “Il Vigilante” è una lunga ricerca durata circa 10 anni e divisa in due volumi, che espone il fondamentale concetto di esistenza degli “Elohim”, coloro che diedero “l’Ego Sum”, la scintilla della mente all’uomo. Molti studiosi sostengono che questi Elohim non si occupassero...
From Olympus to Camelot
The World of European Mythology
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2003
From the stories suggested by the great cave paintings of the Paleolithic period to the thought experiments of modern scientists, From Olympus to Camelot provides a sweeping history of the development of the rich and varied European mythological tradition. David Leeming, an authority on world mythology,...
Die «Laenge Christi» in der Malerei
Codifizierung von Authentizitaet im intermedialen Diskurs
Language: German
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Ab dem ausgehenden Mittelalter verbreiten sich in Europa großformatige Gemälde der sogenannten Länge Christi. Diese in der kunsthistorischen Forschung bisher kaum beachteten Malereien wurden als Kultbilder verehrt und zeigen Christus in seiner angeblich wahren irdischen Gestalt. Die Arbeit präsentiert...
Shenoute of Atripe and the Uses of Poverty
Rural Patronage, Religious Conflict, and Monasticism in Late Antique Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
Shenoute of Atripe: stern abbot, loquacious preacher, patron of the poor and scourge of pagans in fifth-century Egypt. This book studies his numerous Coptic writings and finds them to be the most important literary source for the study of society, economy and religion in late antique Egypt. The issues...