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Tales of the Neighborhood
University of California Press 2003; US$ 55.00In this lively and intellectually engaging book, Galit Hasan-Rokem shows that religion is shaped not only in the halls of theological disputation and institutions of divine study, but also in ordinary events of everyday life. Common aspects of human relations offer a major source for the symbols of religious texts and rituals of late antique Judaism... more...
Holy Bishops in Late Antiquity
University of California Press 2005; US$ 34.95Between 300 and 600, Christianity experienced a momentous change from persecuted cult to state religion. One of the consequences of this shift was the evolution of the role of the bishop?as the highest Church official in his city?from model Christian to model citizen. Claudia Rapp's exceptionally learned, innovative, and groundbreaking work traces... more...
Osiris
Wiley 2008; US$ 135.95Bojana Mojsov tells the story of the cult of Osiris from beginning to end, sketching its development throughout 3,000 years of Egyptian history. Draws together the numerous records about Osiris from the third millennium B.C. to the Roman conquest of Egypt. Demonstrates that the cult of Osiris was the most popular and enduring of the ancient religions.... more...
History of Biblical Israel
BRILL 2001; US$ 153.00This title encompasses the history of Israel from its very beginnings up to the destruction of the First Temple of Jerusalem in 586 BC. Topics covered include: the Exodus and the conquest of Canaan; the rise of the Davidic Dynasty; and the diplomatic, international marriages of Solomon. more...
Passover in the works of Josephus
BRILL 2002; US$ 171.00This work covers Flavius Josephus' presentation of the Feast of Passover in his works. It analyzes the texts in which Flavius Josephus mentions this Feast in his paraphrase of the Bible. Then the references to Passover in the rest of his works are considered. more...
Egypt
BRILL 2003; US$ 189.00"The intellectual heritage of Ancient Egypt" ? once wrote Jan Assmann ? "can hardly be said to have become part of our cultural memory. It is a subject of fascination, not of understanding." This fascination began when ancient Greek travellers started visiting Egypt, and continues unto this day, more often than not as a scholarly search for the oldest... more...
Jerusalem, Alexandria, Rome
BRILL 2003; US$ 206.00This journal supplement features scholarly articles on many aspects of Judaism, mostly from the Persian period through late Antiquity. In this collection of 23 contributions in honor of Hilhorst's 65th birthday retirement as a classical scholar from the U. of Groningen, the Netherlands, the editors (at the same campus) introduce his interests in ph more...
Rituals and ritual theory in ancient Israel
BRILL 2003; US$ 158.00This work covers the issues of rituals and their embedded ritual theory in the religion of ancient Israel. It states that rituals are an autonomous form of expression of the human mind. It argues that the ritual theory is not in any general theory of ritual but embedded in the ritual act itself. more...
The Philosopher and the Druids
Simon & Schuster 2006; US$ 17.95Early in the first century B.C. a Greek philosopher named Posidonius began an ambitious and dangerous journey into the little-known lands of the Celts. A man of great intellectual curiosity and considerable daring, Posidonius traveled from his home on the island of Rhodes to Rome, the capital of the expanding empire that had begun to dominate the... more...
When Judaism and Christianity began. Volume 1, Christianity in the beginning
BRILL 2004; US$ 301.00In these volumes, top scholars in the study of religion celebrate the enduring heritage in learning bequeathed to coming generations by Anthony J. Saldarini (1941-2001). Twenty-nine commemorative essays focus on the topical areas of formative Christianity and Judaism to which Dr. Saldarini devoted his efforts: earliest Christianity, with special attention... more...









