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Monastic Economies in Late Antique Egypt and Palestine

"Reveals that Late Antique monasteries in Egypt and Palestine were actively engaged in regional societies, contradictory to the traditional understanding of monastic life as 'isolated'. Draws on the …

K P S Janssen

Marginalized Religion and the Law in the Roman Empire

Marginalized Religion and the Law in the Roman Empire investigates how members of various marginalized religious groups were embedded in, and interacted with, the wider Roman legal system. K. P. S. Jansse…

Laura Perry

Pantheon - The Minoans

Journey through the Labyrinth to meet the Minoan deities of ancient Crete, who are still very much alive in the modern world. The Minoan family of deities is presided over by a trio of mother goddesses re…

Cyril of Alexandria: Against Julian

In 362/363 the Roman emperor Julian composed a treatise titled Against the Galileans in which he set forth his reasons for abandoning Christianity and returning to devotion to the traditional Greco-Roman …

Jeremy Mcinerney

Centaurs and Snake-Kings

"Combining scholarship with readability, Jeremy McInerney's wide-ranging, stimulating new book uncovers the complexity and potency of ancient hybridity. Hybrids, McInerney reveals, confuse categories…

Reidar Hvalvik

The Dominus Legem DAT Motif in Its Multiple Contexts

In this book, Dominus legem dat, labeled the most debated motif in early Christian art, is dealt with in all its different contexts, particularly Roman sarcophagi, where it most often occurs. In light of …

Elaine Pagels

Miracles and Wonder

"Over the past two thousand years, countless personalities have been projected onto the enigma we know as Jesus: a first-century rabbi, capable of miraculous healing, or a magician faking cures; a Pr…

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…

Augustine's 'Confessions'

Augustine's Confessions, written between AD 394 and 400, is an autobiographical work which outlines his youth and his conversion to Christianity. It is one of the great texts of Late Antiquity, the first …

Judah D Galinsky

The Making of a Medieval Bestseller

This study is a history of a medieval bestseller--Rabbi Isaac of Corbeil's handbook of accessible religious law relevant to Jews living in the Diaspora in medieval times. Galinsky describes how it came in…

Barbara Thompson (1944-2022)

Everlasting Flame

Mary Beard,

Die Kaiser von Rom

Der New York Times-Bestseller von Mary Beard über die römischen Kaiservon Augustus bis Caligula, von Nero, bis Vespasian. Nach ihrem Bestseller >>SPQR<< , in dem über den Senat und das Volk vo…

Unruly Books

This volume explores the idea of the unruly book, from books now known by their titles alone to books that subverted structures of power and gender. The contributors show how these books functioned as &qu…

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 …

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.

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…

Jed W Atkins

The Christian Origins of Tolerance

This book presents an account of tolerance that differs from the standard liberal narrative. Jed Atkins recovers tolerance's beginnings in a forgotten North African Christian tradition from the first five…

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…