Ancient history
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Historical Consciousness and the Use of the Past in the Ancient World
John Baines, Henriette van der Blom, Yi Samuel Chen, Tim Rood
Historical Consciousness and the Use of the Past in the Ancient World offers linked essays on uses of the past in prominent and diverse cultures in ancient civilizations across the world. The contributors are leading experts in Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Sinology, Biblical Studies, Classics, and...
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Theorizing Religion in Antiquity
This volume brings theoretical and methodological discussions from religious studies, ancient history, and classics to the study of ancient religions, thus attempting to bridge a disciplinary chasm often apparent in the study of religions in antiquity. It examines theoretical discourses on the speci...
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Exploring the Holy Land
The Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF) is the oldest exploration society of the Levant which is active today. Since its founding meeting in 1865 in Westminster Abbey of London, the PEF scholars have conducted systematic exploration of Jerusalem and the Holy Land. Prominent archaeologists such as C.W....
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Walking through Jordan
Michael P Neeley, Geoffrey A Clark, PM Michele Daviau
The objective of Walking through Jordan is to acknowledge and honor the singular achievements and wider impacts of Jordan's most prominent survey archaeologist, Burton MacDonald. MacDonald is a biblical scholar by training who has written extensively about the Iron Age and early Christianity. Howeve...
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Leadership, Social Memory and Judean Discourse in the Fifth-Second Centuries BCE
Diana V. Edelman, Ehud Ben Zvi, Diane Hughes, James Bos, Kåre Berge, Reinhard Muller, Geoffrey Parsons Miller, Christophe Nihan, Terje Stordalen, Thomas Bolin, Beate Ego, Anne Fitzpatrick-McKinley, Lynette Mitchell, Wolfgang Oswald, Anne-Mareike Schol-Wetter
Diana V. Edelman, Ehud Ben Zvi
The theme of leadership played an important role in ancient Israel and its discourse. It was explored time and again through memories of proper, improper and in-between leaders and through memories of particular institutions like monarchy, priesthood, and prophethood. The ways in which this theme wa...
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Framing Archaeology in the Near East
This volume presents a series of studies by scholars working in Middle Eastern archaeology who actively apply social theory to interpret their fieldwork. It aims to highlight the value of using social theory in the interpretation of field work in a region where, traditionally, such approaches have n...
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The Five-Minute Archaeologist in the Southern Levant
Cynthia Shafer-Elliott, Aren Maeir, Merilyn Copland, Oded Borowski, Ithaq Shai, Chris McKinny, Joe Uziel, Tim Frank, Eric Welch, Seung Ho Bang, Elizabeth R. Arnold, Edward F. Maher, Nava Panitz-Cohen, Jill Citron Katz, Erin Darby, Amihai Mazar, Rafael Y. Lewis, Shira Gur-Arieh, Michael Dee, Brita Lorentzen, Piotr Bienkowski, Sarah Kielt Costello, Jennie Ebeling, Rona Avissar Lewis, Helen Dixon, Jonathan S. Greer, Aaron Brody, Deirdre N. Fulton, Naama Yahalom-Mack, Leann Pace, Laura Wright
The Five-Minute Archaeologist in the Southern Levant is a user-friendly exploration of basic concepts within archaeology and the techniques and methods used by archaeologists in the field. It is intended for students and lay readers alike, such as those participating in community archaeology for the...
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Death's Dominion
Through a discussion of power dynamics with a critical eye towards the political situation of influential Christian leaders including Constantine, Damasus, Ambrose, and Augustine, Death's Dominion demonstrates the ways in which these individuals sought to craft Christian identity and cultural memory...
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A History of Biblical Israel
Ernst Axel Knauf, Philippe Guillaume
There was probably only one past, but there are many different histories. As mental representations of narrow segments of the past, 'histories' reflect different cultural contexts and different historians, although 'history' is a scientific enterprise whenever it processes representative data using...
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Ancient Cookware from the Levant
Ancient clay cooking pots in the southern Levant are unappealing, rough pots that are not easily connected to meals known from ancient writings or iconographic representations. To narrow the gap between excavated sherds and ancient meals, the approach adopted in this study starts by learning how foo...