Religion

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

ISBN: 9783447094054
Published by : Harrassowitz Verlag
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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

ISBN: 9781841716817
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
This is the first report on survey work and excavations carried out by the Sudan Antiquitites Service, supported by UNESCO, between 1960 and 1963 in the northernmost region of Sudanese Nubia, an area threatened by dam construction. William Adams d... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781841718606
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
This second volume in a series publishing the results of the UNESCO-Sudan Antiquities Service Survey in northern Sudan, ahead of the flooding of the area by the Aswan High Dam, focuses on the Christian Nubian period sites dating to between AD580 a... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780859897068
Published by : The Exeter Press
This volume, like its predecessors in the series, includes a variety of topics all relating to the Arabian Peninsula. We find articles on language and literature, dialect, geography, archaeology, history, architecture, agriculture, sociology, ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780195182521
Published by : Oxford University Press
Esteemed scholar David Leeming, who has authored more than twelve books on mythology, here offers the first comprehensive narrative study of the mythology of the Middle East, that tumultuous region that was the cradle of civilization.

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ISBN: 9780810848481
Published by : Rowman and Littlefield
This A to Z, which has a cut-off point of 331 BC, focuses on the events of the Bible, our principal source for ancient Israel, and, therefore, it includes events and people which which may have existed only in the Old Testament's pages. The book a... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780802821737
Published by : William B. Eerdmans
In recent times Biblical archaeology has been heavily criticised by some camp who maintain that it has little to offer Near Eastern archaeology. However, some scholars carry on the fight to change people's views and this collection of essays conti... .... Learn More