Antiquities category: 284 books
Of Summits and Sacrifice
An Ethnohistoric Study of Inka Religious Practices
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
In perhaps as few as one hundred years, the Inka Empire became the largest state ever formed by a native people anywhere in the Americas, dominating the western coast of South America by the early sixteenth century. Because the Inkas had no system of writing, it was left to Spanish and semi-indigenous...
Civic Rites
Democracy and Religion in Ancient Athens
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2010
Civic Rites explores the religious origins of Western democracy by examining the government of fifth-century BCE Athens in the larger context of ancient Greece and the eastern Mediterranean. Deftly combining history, politics, and religion to weave together stories of democracy’s first leaders and...
by Charles William King
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
The Gnostics and Their Remains is an illustrated, expansive treatise on Gnosticism. Its history, sources, theology, and more are thoroughly discussed, with the original illustrations interspersed throughout the chapters.A table of contents is also included for easier navigation.
Sons of Hellenism, Fathers of the Church
Emperor Julian, Gregory of Nazianzus, and the Vision of Rome
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
This groundbreaking study brings into dialogue for the first time the writings of Julian, the last non-Christian Roman Emperor, and his most outspoken critic, Bishop Gregory of Nazianzus, a central figure of Christianity. Susanna Elm compares these two men not to draw out the obvious contrast between...
Holy Bishops in Late Antiquity
The Nature of Christian Leadership in an Age of Transition
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Between 300 and 600, Christianity experienced a momentous change from persecuted cult to state religion. One of the consequences of this shift was the evolution of the role of the bishop—as the highest Church official in his city—from model Christian to model citizen. Claudia Rapp's exceptionally...
Doctrine and Power
Theological Controversy and Christian Leadership in the Later Roman Empire
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
During the fourth century A.D., theological controversy divided Christian communities throughout the Eastern half of the Roman Empire. Not only was the truth about God at stake, but also the authority of church leaders, whose legitimacy depended on their claims to represent that truth. In this book,...
by Ken Jeremiah
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
Eternal Remains: World Mummification and the Beliefs that make it Necessary provides a comprehensive introduction to bodily preservation in worldwide cultures. It is unique, as it focuses on the religious and spiritual beliefs that necessitated the practice.
by Eric H Cline
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2009
Public interest in biblical archaeology is at an all-time high, as television documentaries pull in millions of viewers to watch shows on the Exodus, the Ark of the Covenant, and the so-called Lost Tomb of Jesus. Important discoveries with relevance to the Bible are made virtually every year--during...
by Clyde E. Fant, Mitchell G. Reddish
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2003
Nearly two-thirds of the New Testament--including all of the letters of Paul, most of the book of Acts, and the book of Revelation--is set outside of Israel, in either Turkey or Greece. Although biblically-oriented tours of the areas that were once ancient Greece and Asia Minor have become increasingly...
The Secret of the Spear
The Mystery of the Spear of Longinus
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
The spear used by Longinus, the Roman centurion, to pierce the side of Christ as he hung on the cross has long been believed to be an object of great supernatural and occult power, with the capacity for good or evil. It has been sought by the most powerful figures in history, who have believed that...
David and Solomon
In Search of the Bible's Sacred Kings and the Roots of the Western Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2007
The exciting field of biblical archaeology has revolutionized our understanding of the Bible -- and no one has done more to popularise this vast store of knowledge than Israel Finkelstein and Neil Silberman, who revealed what we now know about when and why the Bible was first written in The Bible...
Roman Britain: A New History 55 BC - AD 450
A New History 55 BC-AD 450
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
For nearly four centuries, from AD 43 to 410, Britain was a small province on the north western edge of the vast Roman Empire. Patricia Southerns masterly new history tells the story from first contact, through invasion and conquest, coexistence to eventual decline incorporating the political, social...
In Search of Paul
How Jesus' Apostle Opposed Rome's Empire with God's Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2009
John Dominic Crossan, the eminent historical Jesus scholar, and Jonathan L. Reed, an expert in biblical archaeology, reveal through archaeology and textual scholarship that Paul, like Jesus, focused on championing the Kingdom of God––a realm of justice and equality––against the dominant, worldly...
Buried Hope or Risen Savior
The Search for the Jesus Tomb
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
Buried Hope or Risen Savior? argues for the credibility of Jesus Christ’s resurrection, engaging the issue in relation to the recent “Jesus Family Tomb” claims that continue making headlines around the world.
Among the contributors, Steve Ortiz (professor of Biblical Archaeology at Southwestern...