Ancient Religions & Mythologies

Exploring life, death, and the afterlife in Mesopotamia, Alhena Gadotti and Alexandra Kleinerman examine how life and death experiences continually...

Explore the world of Hungarian Paganism with this book's impressive collection of history, lore, and traditions from the Carpathian basin. The Hung...

Originally published in 1932, this book is based on a series of lectures delivered in Cambridge in 1931. The views of the universe as held by the g...

This book offers a fresh look at the status of the scribe in society, his training, practices, and work in the biblical world. What was the scribe...

This volume provides a guide to research in the field of Greek Myth, introducing the main questions, theories and methods related to the study of G...

How should one write a history of Ancient Israel? In the last few decades, a lively discussion has taken place on the historiography of ancient Isr...

In the course of the last two decades, both the historical reconstruction of the Iron IIron IIA period in Israel and Judah and the literary-histori...

This volume honors Ran Zadok's work by focusing on his sustained interest in Mesopotamian social history. It brings together a rich array of schol...

This open access book is the first in a groundbreaking series making Babylonian literature accessible. It presents Enuma Elish in transcription and...

A modern-day bard. Madeline Miller, author of Circe and The Song of Achilles Shaw has so much wisdom and knowledge about the old stories, it emana...