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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…

Ann-Katrin Gill, Mark Smith

Glorification Spells from a Priestly Milieu in Ancient Egypt

Glorification Spells from a Priestly Milieu in Ancient Egypt presents the first comprehensive edition of a collection of glorification spells attested in five papyri from around 300 BCE. It includes a hie…

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…

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…

Jim Ghedi

A Hymn For Ancient Land (180g)

2015 veröffentlichte Jim Ghedi beim Label Cambrian sein Debüt »Home Is Where I Exist, Now To Live And Die«. Dieses enthielt acht flotte, melodiöse und rhythmische Folksongs zwischen Tradition und Moderne,…

Laura Perry

Pantheon - The Minoans

Journey through the Labyrinth to meet the Minoan deities of ancient Crete, who are still very much alive in the modern world. The Minoan family of deities is presided over by a trio of mother goddesses re…

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…

The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings: Volume 5, Community

"This final volume focuses on the theme of community within early Christian writings-how Christians joined, managed, conceptualized and policed the community. It will be an invaluable resource for st…

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 …

Yaron Eliav

A Jew in the Roman Bathhouse

A provocative account of Jewish encounters with the public baths of ancient RomePublic bathhouses embodied the Roman way of life, from food and fashion to sculpture and sports. The most popular institutio…

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…

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 Æth…

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…

What's in a Divine Name?

Divine Names are a key component in the communication between humans and gods in Antiquity. Their complexity derives not only from the impressive number of onomastic elements available to describe and tar…

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…