Ancient Religions & Mythologies

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...