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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…

Antonios Thodis

Beginning Again with the Classical Orders

On the Corinthian Column at the Temple of Apollo Epikourios at Bassae reconsiders well-established understandings of the ancient Greek Corinthian, Doric, and Ionic architectural orders. Antonios Thodis ex…

Steven B Cowan, Graham Oppy, David Apolloni, Shyam Ranganathan

Life After Death

Presents four distinct perspectives on life after death.

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…

Philip Matyszak

Rome Before Rome

An in-depth exploration of the myths and legends of early Rome, highlighting the enigmatic origins of the Romans and how the first seeds of this vast empire were sown.

Karin van Nieuwkerk

Nonreligious Lifeworlds in Egypt

An analysis of the growing visibility of nonreligion in Egypt.Egypt's 2011 uprising ousted one dictator, Hosni Mubarak, while ushering in another, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. Yet, if political revolution founde…

El-Sayed El-Aswad

Religion and the Invisible World

A broad critical history of the transformation of religious thought in Egypt from ancient to modern periodsWhen a civilization disappears, its heritage does not vanish. It survives in different potentiall…

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 …

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…

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…

T&t Clark Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism Volume One

This award-winning reference resource, with over 400 contributors from diverse academic backgrounds, provides the most complete guide to the literary, historical, and geographical contexts of early Judais…

Barbara Thompson (1944-2022)

Everlasting Flame

Brett Kaufman

Phoenicia, Carthage, and Popular Government in the Pre-Classical Mediterranean

From Aristotle to John Adams, great minds of government have revered Carthaginian democracy as the purest expression of a people's will. Yet today, while Phoenician influence on the Graeco-Roman worlds ha…

Olivia Church

Pagan Portals - Osiris

Dip below the Nile's surface to the realm of ancient Egypt's green-faced God of life, death, and rebirth. Known to the Greeks as Osiris, Wesir is one of ancient Egypt's most enduring deities, worshipped f…

Roberta Mazza

Stolen Fragments

"In 2012, Steve Green, billionaire and president of the Hobby Lobby chain of craft stores, announced a recent purchase of a Biblical artefact - a fragment of papyrus, just discovered, carrying lines …

Sarah Bowden

Writing Sin in the German Lands, 1050-1215

This book is about the relationship between dealing with sin and writing poetry in the Middle Ages; focusing particularly on twelfth-century Germany, it discusses how people performed penance and thought …

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…

Michael J Lichens

Weird Catholic Handbook

Dive into the fascinating and overlooked aspects of the Catholic faith with Weird Catholic Handbook by Michael Lichens. This book takes you on a Chestertonian romp through the peculiar and intriguing elem…

Carl P E Springer,

The Latin Verse of Martin Luther

Martin Luther wrote a number of Latin poems, mostly using traditional classical metres, over the course of his career. He used them to praise friends, insult adversaries and express his faith in times of …