Ancient Religions & Mythologies

Reading the Sacred Scriptures: From Oral Tradition to Written Documents and their Reception examines how the scriptures came to be written and how ...

'A poetic, erudite exploration of history and myth' Financial TimesAn unforgettable journey through centuries and across cultures to the pivotal mo...

This edited volume brings together an international group of scholars to address the lives, roles, myths, mythology, and lived experiences of Vikin...

Irish Witches, Magicians and Fairies is the fifth and final book in Micael Howard's 'Witchcraft in the British Isles' series.It examines the histor...

Recent studies have reshaped the understanding of the early Viking Age power center, near Erritsø just a few kilometers from Fredericia in Southern...

Gorgeous collectable edition. Anansi is at once a creator god, a trickster folk hero, a wily spider and a heroic symbol of resistance. From his ori...

Proclus, successor of the School of Athens in the fifth century AD, is one of the last great voices of a pagan polytheistic world in crisis in the ...

This book explores figurative images of the womb and the simile of a woman in labor from the Hebrew Bible, problematizing previous interpretations ...

This volume examines Apuleius comic donkey novel, The Golden Ass, within the context of the popular beliefs and Jewish and Christian writings that ...

The series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZAW) covers all areas of research into the Old Testament, focusing on ...

How could ancient astronomers accurately calculate celestial phenomena on the scale of several centuries? The Table of Kings is a simple list of ru...

Addressing the relationship between religion and ideology, and drawing on a range of literary, ritual, and visual sources, this book reconstructs t...

Der mittelalterliche Kommentar des Raschi (R. Schlomo ben Yitzchaq, Troyes 10401105) gehört zum Kernbestand des jüdischen Schriftwesens. Der Rasch...

Nine short essays exploring the Kiche Maya story of creation, the Popol Vuh.   Written during the lockdown in Chicago in the depths of the COVID-19...

The present volumes focus lies on the formation of a multifaccetted discourse on Christian martyrdom in Late Antiquity. While martyrdom accounts re...

The monograph considers the relationships of ethical systems in the ancient Near East through a study of warfare in Judah, Israel and Assyria in th...