Religion

ISBN: 9783896460714
Published by : Verlag Marie Leidorf GmbH
This detailed examination of Palestine's middle Bronze Age and early Iron Age `settlement sanctuaries' is based on archaeological evidence and a catalogue of 19 `irregular' and 25 symmetrical temples. Gabriel Albers' thesis argues that the irr... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783934628588
Published by : Ugarit-Verlag
These thirty-three essays form the proceedings of a symposium on the religious history of Asia Minor from the early 2nd to middle 1st millennium BC. The well-presented, specialist papers, which include extracts from contemporary texts, survey the ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781885923349
Published by : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
This volume addresses the topical interest in Islam, studying the process of its spread throughout the medieval world and the process of conversion to this religion and adoption of its cultural life. The evidence is presented in a series of ess... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780718891411
Published by : Lutterworth Press
Series: Cities of the Biblical World
From the Cities of the Biblical World series - a series describing the recent archaeological developments at major Biblical sites for the general reader, the student and the tourist.

Until the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780802839947
Published by : William B. Eerdmans
Ancient kings who did not honor the gods overlooked an indispensable means for ruling effectively in their communities. In many traditional societies royal authority was regarded as a divine gift bestowed according to the quality of the relatio... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780918954886
Published by : Texas A&M University Press
In 2002 an inscribed limestone ossuary or burial box was taken from a private collection and revealed to the world. The most astonishing thing about this ossuary was the inscription which read `James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus'. This book is... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780897570107
Published by : Ezekiel Publishing
First published in 1938, for sixty years Biblical Archaeologist was one of the foremost authorities on the archaeology, history and literature of the lands of the eastern Mediterranean, from Palaeolithic through early Islamic times. Now all six... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780718890117
Published by : Lutterworth Press
In his classic account of the antiquities of Jordan, Lankester Harding writes with an erudition based upon a lifetime's knowledge of the region, describing all the major sites of interest in the country. Some of the most remarkable and famous site... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783496012580
Published by : Dietrich Reimer Verlag
Archaeology, art history and theory are combined in these eleven specially commissioned papers which aim to explain the importance of images in the cultures of the ancient Near East. In particular, the contributors examine the role of visual commu... .... Learn More