Ancient Religions & Mythologies

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...

Ever since Vlastos Theology and Philosophy in Early Greek Thought, scholars have known that a consideration of ancient philosophy without attention...

This book investigates the issue of the singularity versus the multiplicity of ancient Near Eastern deities who are known by a common first name bu...

Rabbinic hermeneutics in ancient Judaism reflects this multifaceted world of the text and of reality, seen as a world of reference worth commentary...

Archaeoacoustics, the study of sound in the past, is increasingly attracting attention. Although some work, particularly in musical archaeology, ha...

With the dark, mythical magic of the Winternight trilogy, and the slow-burn romance of Spinning Silver, NORTH IS THE NIGHT is a feminist fantasy ad...

With the dark, mythical magic of the Winternight trilogy, and the slow-burn romance of Spinning Silver, NORTH IS THE NIGHT is a feminist fantasy ad...

Many recent discoveries have confirmed the importance of Orphism for ancient Greek religion, philosophy and literature. Its nature and role are sti...

This book addresses the many interlocking problems in understanding the modes of performance, dissemination, and transmission of Greek poetry of th...

In comparison to Mark and Luke, the First Gospel contains a striking preponderance of economic language in passages dealing with sin, righteousness...

This volume will concentrate its search for religious individuality on texts and practices related to texts from Classical Greece to Late Antiquity...

This volume provides the first comprehensive text edition of the Egyptian language sections of P. Bibliothèque Nationale Supplément Grec. 574 (PGM ...

Scholars have sometimes maintained that the study of the history of African religions is an impossible endeavor. Some have contended that African r...

This title was first published in 2001: Reason, Community and Religious Tradition examines key questions about the relationship of rationality to i...

This book focuses on the earliest surviving Christian icons, dated to the sixth and seventh centuries, which bear many resemblances to three other ...

Only a few decades after the Spanish conquest of Peru, the third Bishop of Cuzco, Sebastián de Lartaún, called for a report on the religious practi...

Religion, Ethnicity and Xenophobia in the Bible looks at some of the Bibles most hostile and violent anti-foreigner texts and raises critical quest...

This oracle is an ode to the Wise Woman within every woman. Through storytelling from myth, folklore and contemporary tales about wise and knowledg...