HISTORY / Ancient / General
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Monumentality, Place-making and Social Interaction on Late Bronze Age Cyprus
This book adopts an integrative approach to investigate the role of monumental architecture in shaping social dynamics and power relations on the island of Cyprus during the Late Bronze Age (LBA; c.1700-1050 BCE). Using such an approach, archaeologists studying ancient societies elsewhere can analyz...
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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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Critical Approaches to Cypriot and Wider Mediterranean Archaeology
This volume brings together scholars to reflect on the work of Professor A. Bernard Knapp and on some of the challenges thrown down in his extensive scholarship. Knapp is a central figure in the pre and proto-history of the Mediterranean in the last generation, and the essays in this volume will be...
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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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Healing, Disease and Placebo in Graeco-Roman Asclepius Temples
This book follows the evidence for Asclepius' supplicants from the moment in which they realized that they were sick until the healing experiences, which they might have had at the asclepieia. From a historical perspective, the main features of the Asclepius cult, as they were shaped mainly in the H...
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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 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...