Levant
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The Quest for the Historical Israel: Archaeology and the History of Early Israel [Paperback]
Israel Finkelstein (Author)
$24.95Out of stock
ISBN: 9781589832770
Published by : Society of Biblical Literature
Three decades of dialogue, discussion, and debate within the interrelated disciplines of Syro-Palestinian archaeology, ancient Israelite history, and Hebrew Bible over the question of the relevance of the biblical account for reconstructing ear... .... Learn More -
Leben fuer die Forschung: Das Ethnologenehepaar Wilhelm und Marie Hein in Suedarabien (1901/02) [Paperback]
Gertraud Sturm (Author)
$87.00Out of stock
ISBN: 9783700139515
Published by : Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
Series: Denkschriften der Phil.-Hist. Klasse
Volume: 360
This book features the scientific work of Dr. Wilhelm Hein and concentrates on his research in southern Arabia during the years 1901-1902. Dr. Hein's scientific findings would have been impossible without the active support of his wife, Marie. ... .... Learn More -
The Sanusi's Little War: The Amazing Story of a Forgotten Conflict in the Western Desert, 1915-1917 [Hardback]
Russell McGuirk (Author)
$50.00Out of stock
ISBN: 9780954479275
Published by : Arabian Publishing Ltd
This is the exciting story of a forgotten war, fought out on the fringe of the great First World War campaigns. At its centre stands Sayyid Ahmad al-Sharif, the Grand Sanusi, a charismatic Arab leader caught between the rival war aims of the Turco... .... Learn More -
Ghassan Resurrected [Hardback]
Yasmine Zahran (Author)
$37.00Out of stock
ISBN: 9781905299287
Published by : Stacey International
The Ghassanids feature little in modern western discourse today, but they formed the last Arab supremacy before Islam, dominating both Arab and Roman history from the third century AD to the sixth. As the first Christian Arab kingdom, the Ghass... .... Learn More -
Sons of Sindbad [Hardback]
William Facey (Author); Yacoub Al-Hijji (Author); Grace Pundyk (Author); Alan Villiers (Author)
$50.00ISBN: 9780954479237
Published by : Arabian Publishing Ltd
Alan Villiers (1903-82), the Australian sailor and maritime historian, first made a name for himself as an adventurer in the 1920s and 1930s by combining his seafaring skills with his talent as a pioneering photojournalist. He visited Arabia in... .... Learn More -
Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, Volume 36 (2006) [Paperback]
John Carter (Editor); St John Simpson (Author)
$100.00ISBN: 9781905739011
Published by : Archaeopress
Papers from the thirty-ninth meeting of the Seminar for Arabian Studies held in London, July 2005.
The Seminar for Arabian Studies is the only international forum which meets annually for the presentation of the latest academic res... .... Learn More -
The Architecture of Petra [Hardback]
Judith McKenzie (Author)
$90.00Out of stock
ISBN: 9781842171646
Published by : Oxbow Books
This is an enormous and impressive book that is not only full of facts, but that also solves mysteries. It provides a detailed and lavishly illustrated catalogue of the main monuments of Petra. Then, in seeking the origins of Petra's particula... .... Learn More -
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The Messiah Myth: The Near Eastern Roots of Jesus and David [Hardback]
Thomas L Thompson (Author)
Regular Price: $35.00
Special Price: $9.98
ISBN: 9780465085774
Published by : Basic Books
From a prominent scholar, a provocative argument that the Biblical characters of Jesus and David should be viewed not as historical figures, but as embodiments of Babylonian, Egyptian, and Near Eastern traditions.
Since the eighteenth centu... .... Learn More -
The Empty Men: The Heroic Tradition of Ancient Israel [Hardback]
Gregory Mobley (Author)
Regular Price: $42.00
Special Price: $12.98
ISBN: 9780300140125
Published by : Yale University Press
In a groundbreaking work of literary archaeology, a bold young scholar adds a new page to the quintessential book of adventure stories, that of the heroic traditions of the "Old Testament". Gregory Mobley brings a highly original eye to the fam... .... Learn More