Antiquities Archaeology category: 284 books
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Only One Cumorah
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2012
The Geography of the Book of Mormon by E. Cecil McGavin and Willard W. Bean (& Wayne N. May) is an incisive study of the geographical locations of the three colonies that came to America in ancient days; and their spreading into North America in what is now Southern Canada and the country...
by Dr. A. Nyland
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2018
This is an easy-to-read book suited to anyone with an interest in angels or demons. Ancient texts tell us that the Watchers were a class of angel who came to earth and taught weapons, spell potions, root cuttings, astrology, astronomy and alchemy to the humans living on earth. Some of the Watchers...
Greek Magic
Ancient, Medieval and Modern
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2008
Magic has always been a widespread phenomenon in Greek Society, starting from Homer’s Circe (the first ‘evil witch’ in western history) and extending to the pervasive belief in the ‘evil eye’ in the twenty-first century Greece. Indeed, magic is probably the most ancient and durable among...
by Alan F. Alford
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
The Astonishing New Theory That Rewrites Egyptology...
According to modern scholars, the sun-god reigned supreme in ancient Egypt, and it was the rising and setting sun that provided the model for the death and rebirth of the pharaohs.
But the mighty pyramids and temples suggest a more...
by John J. Pilch
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
The task of interpreting the Bible — which was written by and to people living in very different cultural contexts from contemporary Western society — can seem monumental. The opposite is also true: people can easily forget that studying the Bible is a type of cross-cultural encounter, instead...
From an Antique Land
An Introduction to Ancient Near Eastern Literature
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
Many of the world's first written records have been found in the area of the Ancient Near East, in what is today known as the Middle East. While many people are familiar with the ancient Israelite literature recorded in the Hebrew Bible, most Near Eastern literature remains a mystery. From an Antique...
Creating a Common Polity
Religion, Economy, and Politics in the Making of the Greek Koinon
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
In the ancient Greece of Pericles and Plato, the polis, or city-state, reigned supreme, but by the time of Alexander, nearly half of the mainland Greek city-states had surrendered part of their autonomy to join the larger political entities called koina. In the first book in fifty years to tackle...
by AA. VV.
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2015
In the following pages certain things supposed to be of comparatively modern origin have been traced back to the remotest historic ages of the world; as a consequence, it follows that the modern symbolical meaning given to such things is sometimes only one acquired in subsequent times, and not that...
Conversion and Initiation in Antiquity
Shifting Identities Creating Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
For decades, Arthur D. Nock’s famous definition of conversion and his distinction between conversion and adhesion have greatly influenced our understanding of individual religious transformation in the ancient world. The articles in this volume – originally presented as papers at the conference...
The Life of Augustine of Hippo
Part Three: The Pelagian Crisis (411430)
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
The seventeenth century was the century of Saint Augustine. In 1695, Louis Sébastien, Le Nain de Tillemont, finished volume 13 of his Mémoires ecclésiastique, entitled La vie de saint Augustin. The volume consisted of approximately 1200 pages wherein Louis Sébastien gathered from the works of...
Controlling Contested Places
Late Antique Antioch and the Spatial Politics of Religious Controversy
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2014
From constructing new buildings to describing rival-controlled areas as morally and physically dangerous, leaders in late antiquity fundamentally shaped their physical environment and thus the events that unfolded within it. Controlling Contested Places maps the city of Antioch (Antakya, Turkey) through...
by Jair Da Silva Lima
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: February 26, 2014
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: February 26, 2014
Atualizado para a versão 1.08 A ordem atual da Bíblia foi compilada segundo a tradição hebraica (Antigo Testamento) e também segundo os concílios das Igrejas Primitivas (Novo Testamento); sendo assim, não foi seguido a ordem dos acontecimentos. Daí, surgiu então a necessidade de um livro...
by Arthur Edward Waite
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
The Graal legends are comparable to certain distinct literatures with which the theory here put forward will connect them by a twofold consanguinity of purpose. Scholarship had scarcely troubled itself with the great books of Kabalism till it was found or conceived that they could be made to enforce...
Migrating Tales
The Talmud's Narratives and Their Historical Context
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
Migrating Tales situates the Babylonian Talmud, or Bavli, in its cultural context by reading several rich rabbinic stories against the background of Greek, Syriac, Arabic, Persian, and Mesopotamian literature of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages, much of it Christian in origin. In this nuanced...