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The Final Days of Jesus [Paperback]
Shimon Gibson (Author)
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ISBN: 9780061720000
Published by : Harper Collins Publishers
Shimon Gibson brings his extensive experience of excavating in Jerusalem to bear on this reconstruction of the city as it would have appeared in the time of Jesus. He discusses and where possible identifies locations mentioned in the Bible, as wel... .... Learn More -
Scriptural Geography: Portraying the Holy Land [Hardback]
Edwin James Aiken (Author)
Regular Price: £77.00
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ISBN: 9781845118181
Published by : I.B. Tauris
For nineteenth century scholars the Holy Land was not just a region of the globe - it was an idea, an intellectual and moral space charged with the heat of debate between those trying to understand the religious, social and scientific upheavals of... .... Learn More -
Ivories from Nimrud VI [Hardback]
Georgina Herrmann (Editor); Stuart Laidlaw (Author); H. Coffey (Author)
£75.00ISBN: 9780903472265
Published by : British Institute for the Study of Iraq
Volume: 6
The great, ninth century palace which Ashurnasirpal II (883-859) built at his new capital of Kalhu/Nimrud has been excavated over 150 years by various expeditions. Each has been rewarded with remarkable antiquities, including the finest ivorie... .... Learn More -
The Sword and the Stylus: An Introduction to Wisdom in the Age of Empires [Paperback]
Leo G. Perdue (Author)
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ISBN: 9780802862457
Published by : William B. Eerdmans
Leo Perdue here argues from a sociohistorical approach that the proper understanding of ancient wisdom literature requires one to move out of the realm of philosophical idealism into the flesh and blood of human history. Arguing that wisdom was... .... Learn More -
God's Gold [Paperback]
Sean Kingsley (Author)
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ISBN: 9780060853990
Published by : Harper Collins Publishers
A sort of archaeological detective story, God's Gold aims to track down the final resting place of the treasures of the Second Temple taken by the Emperor Titus in AD 71 and portrayed on the Arch of Titus in Rome. .... Learn More -
Spies of the Bible: Espionage in Israel from the Exodus to the Bar Kokhba Revolt [Hardback]
Rose Mary Sheldon (Author)
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ISBN: 9781853676369
Published by : Greenhill Books
This work highlights the importance of espionage and traces the role intelligence has played from the Jewish exodus from Egypt to the Bar Kochba Revolt. The Near East has been fiercely contested by various parties for thousands of years, and mu... .... Learn More -
Ancient Israel: The Old Testament in Its Social Context [Paperback]
Philip F. Esler (Author)
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ISBN: 9780334040170
Published by : SCM-CANTERBURY PRESS LTD
The book begins by providing a brief history and overview of social scientific analysis of the Old Testament, to bring the reader up to speed with the current scholarship. The remaining chapters are divided into three parts. The first part of the ... .... Learn More -
Reconstructed Chronology of the Divided Kingdom [Hardback]
M .Christine Tetley (Author)
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ISBN: 9781575060729
Published by : Eisenbrauns
The common response to any attempt to read the chronological notations associated with the kings of Israel and Judah in the time of the divided monarchy is, perhaps, a shrug of the shoulders, or a statement to the effect that the problem is insolu... .... Learn More -
Ancient Jordan from the Air [Hardback]
Robert Bewley (Author); David Kennedy (Author)
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ISBN: 9780953910229
Published by : Council for British Research in the Levant
Jordan is part both of the Fertile Crescent and the Holy Land. Its archaeological remains extend in time from prehistory to the British Empire. The country is, of course, renowned for the magnificent ruins at Petra - a World Heritage Site - and... .... Learn More -
Piety and Politics: The Dynamics of Royal Authority in Homeric Greece, Biblical Israel, and Old Babylonian Mesopotamia [Hardback]
Dale Launderville (Author)
Regular Price: £75.00
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ISBN: 9780802839947
Published by : William B. Eerdmans
In Homeric Greece, Biblical Israel, and Old Mesopotamia, the king was said to be installed by divine appointment and was regarded as having a special and privileged relationship with God or the gods. This comparative and thematic study assesses... .... Learn More
