Other non-Christian Religions

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...

Abi Millar is looking for something. She grew up in an evangelical church, but after she lost her faith, she found herself searching for spirituali...

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...

This book explores the historical and social dynamics of Spiritualism - a religious movement associated in the popular imagination with nineteenth-...

The 16th and 17th century raids of the Tatars of the Northern Black Sea take an important place in the historical consciousness of the Eastern Euro...

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 ...

The vast and ancient topic of kingship in India has mostly been studied from the perspectives of rulers and other elites. But what constitutes sove...

The vast and ancient topic of kingship in India has mostly been studied from the perspectives of rulers and other elites. But what constitutes sove...

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

This book is a comprehensive study of the intersection of religion, Indigenous culture, and community life, featuring an in-depth examination of th...

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...