Trefferliste "Ancient Religions" - alle Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr

Willow

Empathogen

Album Nr. 6 der US-amerikanischen Sängerin und Schauspielerin. Mit »Empathogen« schlägt die Tochter von Will Smith und Jada Pinkett Smith eine neue, alternative und jazzige Richtung ein. Feat. Jon Batiste…

David A Desilva

Judea Under Greek and Roman Rule

Judea under Greek and Roman Rule provides a reconstruction of the history of Judea and its neighboring regions from 334 BCE, when Alexander's eastward conquests brought Judea into the Greek empire, throug…

Juliane Zachhuber

Religious Life in Late Classical and Hellenistic Rhodes

Zachhuber focuses on the evidence from one particular part of the ancient world, the island of Rhodes (primarily consisting of texts inscribed on stone), in order to see what we can tease from its diverse…

Jacob L Mackey

Belief and Cult

A groundbreaking reinterpretation that draws on cognitive theory to show that belief wasn’t absent from—but rather was at the heart of—Roman religion Belief and Cult argues that belief isn’t uniquely Chr…

David A Desilva

Judea Under Greek and Roman Rule

Judea under Greek and Roman Rule provides a reconstruction of the history of Judea and its neighboring regions from 334 BCE, when Alexander's eastward conquests brought Judea into the Greek empire, throug…

Stephen Crimi

Hermes Runs the Game

Hermes Runs the Game views the covid operation in terms of the Archaic Greek animal sacrifice, inverted, moving from the depths of ritual child sacrifice to the light of the ancient mystery traditions.

George C Manning

Anger in the Sagas of Icelanders^

Manning examines the presentation of anger in the Íslendingasögur ('Sagas of Icelanders') and Íslendingaþættir ('Tales of Icelanders'), a remarkable Old Norse-Icelandic corpus of texts written in the thir…

The Oxford Handbook of Monsters in Classical Myth

The Oxford Handbook of Monsters in Classical Myth presents forty chapters about the unique and terrifying creatures from myths of the long-ago Near East and Mediterranean world, featuring authoritative co…

Huw Twiston Davies

The Transmission of the Book of the Dead in New Kingdom Tombs at Saqqara

Texts and images from the Book of the Dead were widely used to decorate the walls of tombs during Egypt's New Kingdom (c. 1550-1077 BCE). Prior research has tended to focus on either individual tombs, or …

Kenneth Maly

A Refreshing and Rethinking Retrieval of Greek Thinking

This book presents a rethinking of Greek philosophy to offer the West a path to a more holistic and less conceptual understanding of the way things are.

Steven Snape

Sacred Landscapes in Ancient Egypt

Explores the holy landscapes of Egypt, both in the natural world and the built landscape.

Yiannis Gabriel

Greek Myths for a Post-Truth World

"This book examines what ancient Greek myths can teach us about the troubles and challenges of our 'post-truth' times: environmental degradation, mass migration, war, inequality, exclusion, authoritariani…

Thomas Kazen

Dirt, Shame, Status

"An examination of same-sex sexuality in the Bible in the context of ancient beliefs about power, honor, and purity"--

Whit Dickey (geb. 1954)

Peace Planet & Box Of Light

Jonathan S Burgess

The Travels of Odysseus

The various travels of the hero Odysseus are explored to contextualize Homer's Odyssey and analyze the nature of the hero's character.

Bernardo Ballesteros

Divine Assemblies in Early Greek and Babylonian Epic

This book is the first to chart divine assembly scenes in ancient Babylonian and early Greek epic. It asks why similarities between the two corpora exist, and exploits those similarities to enhance unders…

Confronting Identities in the Roman Empire

"This open access edited volume offers an understanding of how ancient texts, ranging from the historical and biographical to the oratorical and epistolary, demonstrate the negotiation and renegotiation o…

Wolfram Grajetzki

The Middle Kingdom of Ancient Egypt

"For the ancient Egyptians, the Middle Kingdom (c. 2000-1700 BC) was a classical period of art, history and literature. The Twelfth Dynasty was one of the strongest ever to rule on the banks of the Nile: …

Michael Horton

Shaman and Sage

"The first volume of Michael Horton's magisterial intellectual history of "spiritual but not religious" as a phenomenon in Western culture. Discussions of the rapidly increasing number of people identifyi…