Antiquities category: 284 books
The Other God
Dualist Religions from Antiquity to the Cathar Heresy
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2000
This fascinating book explores the evolution of religious dualism, the doctrine that man and cosmos are constant battlegrounds between forces of good and evil. It traces this evolution from late Egyptian religion and the revelations of Zoroaster and the Orphics in antiquity through the Dead Sea Scrolls,...
by Kyle A. Schenkewitz
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
Serving as a dynamic figure in the monastic school, Dorotheos of Gaza transformed the traditional understanding of healing in the spiritual life. Gazan monastic teachers, Isaiah of Scetis, Barsanuphius, John, and Dorotheos, utilized this discourse of healing to instruct and guide their followers in...
by Dr. Katherine A. Shaner
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Enslaved persons were ubiquitous in the first- and second-century CE Roman Empire, and early Christian texts reflect this fact. Yet the implications of enslaved presence in religious practices are under-examined in early Christian and Roman history. Enslaved Leadership in Early Christianity argues...
The Ancient World
Greece, Egypt and Persia in the 4th century BC
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
SALAMIS and Plataea settled that Persia should not expand into Europe. Her European conquests could no longer be held; in 479 she lost Sestos and the Hellespont, in 478 Byzantium and the Bosporus; with the fall of Eion soon afterwards Thrace and Macedonia recovered their independence, Doriscus and...
The Anunnaki Chronicles
A Zecharia Sitchin Reader
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
An insider’s look into the decades of research behind Zecharia Sitchin’s books as well as an in-depth overview of his theories and discoveries
• Includes carefully selected chapters from the Earth Chronicles series as well as never-before-published letters, articles, and lectures
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Becoming Osiris
The Ancient Egyptian Death Experience
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1998
An in-depth examination of the ancient Egyptian approach to death and its relevance to the modern near-death experience
• A thought-provoking account of the numerous initiatic stages of the immortalization process
• Examines the Ritual of Embalming and the Ritual of the Opening of...
by Austen Layard
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Originally published in 1849, this early work by traveller, archaeologist and collector Sir Austen Henry Layard is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It details the religion, art and military of the ancient city of Nineveh. This is a fascinating read for anyone interested in the...
The Brother of Jesus
The Dramatic Story & Meaning of the First Archaeological Link to Jesus & His Family
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2009
The discovery of a limestone burial box with the inscription "James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus" set the world of biblical archaeology abuzz. Could this be the first tangible proof of Jesus' existence? Hershel Shanks, celebrated for making biblical archaeology accessible to general readers, and...
Reflections of Amma
Devotees in a Global Embrace
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Globally known as Amma, meaning "Mother," Mata Amritanandamayi has developed a massive transnational humanitarian organization based in hugs. She is familiar to millions as the "hugging saint," a moniker that derives from her elaborate darshan programs wherein nearly every day...
The Story of the Scrolls
The miraculous discovery and true significance of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2010
The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in Qumran, Palestine, in 1947 was one of the greatest archaeological finds of all time. Written in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek, and hidden in caves by an ancient Jewish sect, these mysterious manuscripts revolutionized our understanding of the Bible, of Judaism...
by Norman Golb
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Dr. Norman Golb's classic study on the origin of the Dead Sea Scrolls is now available online.Since their earliest discovery in 1947, the Scrolls have been the object of fascination and extreme controversy. Challenging traditional dogma, Golb has been the leading proponent of the view that the Scrolls...
LIFE The Dead Sea Scrolls
The Race to Solve an Ancient Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
In the late 1940s, perhaps the greatest archeological find of modern times occurred when Bedouin shepherds unearthed mysterious scrolls in a cave near the Dead Sea, just south of Jerusalem. These documents turned out to be manuscripts-some of them biblical-reflecting the beliefs of a vanished Jewish...
A Cosmos in Stone
Interpreting Religion and Society Through Rock Art
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2002
J. David Lewis-Williams is world renowned for his work on the rock art of Southern Africa. In this volume, Lewis-Williams describes the key steps in his evolving journey to understand these images painted on stone. He describes the development of technical methods of interpreting rock paintings of...
Son of the Sun
The Life and Philosophy of Akhnaton, King of Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
The amazing story of Akhnaton (Amenhotep IV ), Pharaoh of Egypt 1360 B.C. This is not just the fascinating story of a man’s life— it is far more. It raises the curtain on man’s emerging from superstition and idolatry. Against the tremendous opposition of a fanatical and politically corrupt priesthood,...