Ancient history
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Representations of Antiquity in Film
Representations of Antiquity in Film offers an introduction to how the ancient world is represented in film and especially Hollywood cinema. McGeough considers the potential that movies have for helping us think about antiquity and their relationship to more traditional academic historical work. The...
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Back to Reason
Twenty years ago some biblical scholars at the University of Copenhagen were denounced as being nihilists and a threat to western civilization. What was their crime? They had exposed the fallacies of traditional historical-critical biblical scholarship, which was neither historical nor critical. Alt...
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About Edom and Idumea in the Persian Period
Benedikt Hensel, Piotr Bienkowski, Yigal Levin, Ian Stern, Andrew J. Danielson, Dafna Langgut, Oded Lipschits, Alexander Fantalkin, Oren Tal, Adi Erlich, Michal Haber, Oren Gutfeld, Pablo Betzer, Hanspeter Schaudig, Bob Becking, Diana V. Edelman, Esther Eshel, Michael Langlois, Mark Geller, Ehud Ben Zvi, Stephen Germany
Benedikt Hensel, Ehud Ben Zvi, Diana V. Edelman
This volume highlights and advances new developments in the study of Edom and Idumea in eighteen essays written by researchers from different disciplines (History, Archaeology, Assyriology, Epigraphy, Memory Studies, and Hebrew Bible studies). The topics examined include the emergence of Idumea, the...
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Transitions, Urbanism, and Collapse in the Bronze Age
Jesse C. Long, William G. Dever
In recognition of the significant contribution that Suzanne Richard has made to the archaeology of the Early Bronze Age in the southern Levant, this Festschrift represents the best of scholarship in her areas of interest and publication in the field. Professor Richard is known for her work on the Ea...
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The Complexity of Conversion
Valerie Nicolet, Marianne Kartzow
Today, conversion is a contested religious, political, and personal phenomenon, and that was also the case in the ancient world. Using several primary sources (Jewish and Christian) and case studies, this volume discusses what this change could have meant for various individuals or groups of people...
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The Use and Dissemination of Religious Knowledge in Antiquity
Catherine Hezser, Diana V. Edelman
Ancient Mesopotamian, biblical, rabbinic, and Christian literature was created and transmitted by the intellectual elite and therefore presents their world views and perspectives. This volume investigates for the first time whether and to what extent religious knowledge - e.g., "sacred" narratives,...
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Animal Iconography in the Archaeological Record
Laerke Recht, Katarzyna Zeman-Wisniewska, Nicola Scheyhing, Evangelia Voulgari, Marie Nicole Pareja, Lucia Alberti, Giambattista Bello, Igor Chechuchkov, Emma Usmanova, Olga Gumirova, Lonneke Delpeut, Joanne M. Lawrence, Nathalie del Socorro, Anna-Elisa Stumpel, Branka Franicevic, Tonno Jonuks
Laerke Recht, Katarzyna Zeman-Wisniewska
Animals pervade our lives, both today and in the past. From the smallest bug through pets and agricultural animals to elephants and blue whales, the animals themselves, animal-derived products and representations of animals can be found everywhere in our daily lives. This book focuses on the represe...
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Painting the Mediterranean Phoenician
This book focuses on the Canaanite-Phoenician economic systems that predominated in and determined Mediterranean history. Phoenician trade networks were sophisticated and elaborate operations that required a highly developed society and institutions in order to spread and be maintained. By tracking...
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Josiah
This book considers the various ways in which the last major King of Judah has been presented in biblical texts and the subsequent cultures that have made use of the biblical narratives. It is posited that there is no reliable material that can be dated to the time of Josiah and that the literary co...
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The Geography of Urbanism in Roman Asia Minor
The Geography of Urbanism in Roman Asia Minor investigates how Roman urbanism manifested itself in Asia Minor during the first three centuries CE, particularly with regards to its spatial patterning over the landscape and the administrative, economic and cultural functions cities fulfilled, and how...