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  • Works of E. A. Wallis Budgeby E. A. Wallis Budge

    MobileReference.com 2010; US$ 3.99

    This collection was designed for optimal navigation on Kindle and other electronic devices. This collection offers lower price, the convenience of a one-time download, and it reduces the clutter in your digital library. All books included in this collection feature a hyperlinked table of contents and footnotes. The collection is complimented by an... more...

  • Freeing the Dead Sea Scrollsby Hershel Shanks

    Continuum International Publishing 2010; US$ 27.95

    A world-renowned biblical archaeology scholar, Hershel Shanks is the Founder and Editor of the Biblical Archaeology Review . Once a successful Washington Attorney, Shanks changed careers after a trip to the Holy Land and devoted himself to the study of biblical archaeology. When the Dead Sea Scrolls (1947–1956) were discovered, a complex tale... more...

  • Biblical Archaeologyby John H. Sailhamer

    Zondervan 2010; US$ 4.99

    This is a series of brief reference books for laypeople designed to be read in units of one or two pages. more...

  • The Quest for the Ark of the Covenantby Stuart Munro-Hay

    I.B.Tauris 2005; US$ 35.00

    In a chapel in the old crenellated church of Mary of Zion in Aksum, Ethiopia, is kept an object that emperors, patriarchs and priests have assured the world is the most important religious relic of all time: the Ark of the Covenant. Are the legends true? Or is this story a monumental deception? In a triumph of historical detective work the acclaimed... more...

  • Coping With the Godsby Henk Versnel

    BRILL 2011; US$ 267.00

    Abandoning monolithic approaches and embracing the possibility of inconsistencies and incongruities in Greek thought, behaviour, and culture, this book investigates how ancient Greeks could validate the complementarity of dissonant, if not contradictory, representations in e.g.polytheism, theodicy, divine omnipotence and ruler cult. more...

  • The Penguin Handbook of Ancient Religionsby Various Contributors

    Penguin Books Ltd 2009; Not Available

    This overview of the religious customs of ancient cultures boasts an international selection of contributors, all of whom are leading scholars in their field. The cultural practices of popular as well as formal religion are explored in detail, giving an impression of all, not only elite societies. Every topic is placed in its own cultural context,... more...

  • Tracing Orpheusby Marco Antonio Santamaría Álvarez; Raquel Martín Hernández; Miguel Herrero de Jáuregui; Sofía Torallas Tovar; Ana Isabel Jiménez San Cristóbal; Eugenio R. Luján Martínez

    De Gruyter 2011; US$ 154.00

    This volume sheds light on the most relevant pieces of evidence for ancient Orphism, collected in the recent edition by Alberto Bernabé. It contains 65 short new studies on Orphic fragments by leading international scholars who comment one of the most controversial phenomena in Antiquity from a plurality of perspectives. Readers will acquire a global... more...

  • Divining the Etruscan Worldby Jean MacIntosh Turfa

    Cambridge University Press 2012; US$ 79.00

    The first complete English translation of the Brontoscopic Calendar, providing an understanding of Etruscan Iron Age society as revealed through the ancient text. more...

  • Digging Through the Bibleby Richard A. Freund

    Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2008; US$ 18.95

    Digging Through the Bible shares new information about the Holy Land that can provide a powerful connection between past history and present faith. Join celebrated archaeologist and rabbi Richard Freund as he takes readers through digs he has led, searching for evidence about key biblical characters and events. From Moses and the Israelite Exodus to... more...

  • Cities and Priestsby Marietta Horster; Anja Klöckner

    De Gruyter 2013; US$ 140.00

    This volume brings together historical, archaeological and religious studies approaches to offer a fresh survey of current trends in the analysis of the social and political role of priests and priestesses of civic cults from the Hellenistic period into Imperial times. The presentation and representation of priesthoods and individual priests are discussed... more...