Combining insight and scholarship, this series of sermons and meditations on the Lord's Prayer offers the promise of seeing the world in a new way, through the power of prayer.
The second of the preliminary reports on work at Nippur, this volume also gives details of the remains of a series of temples in Area WA and the administrative and residential buildings in Area WB. In
The remodeling of the theater at ancient Corinth in the 2nd century A.D. included lavish decorations, the chief of which were three dramatic friezes. In publishing them this book presents the most amb
This is the final publication of a small open-air sanctuary of Zeus on Mt. Hymettos above Athens, excavated between the World Wars by Carl Blegen and Rodney Young. The finds reflect two periods of act
The traditional way of publishing cuneiform texts is in the form of hand copies. This system requires, on the one hand, long hours of painstaking work by an experienced cuneiformist, and, on the other
A collection of synthetic articles covering the field of Sumerology, including: Nissen on the geography of Sumer, Tom B Jones on the administrative archives, Edzard on the Sumerian oath, Diakonoff
In this volume the Nippur Expedition publishes the first results of its new program of research at Nippur, the holy city of Mesopotamia. This program, bringing together an interdisciplinary team to wo
The Church of the Holy Apostles stands at an important crossroads in the southeast comer of the area of the ancient Agora. The earliest church on the site, built over a wall of the fifth century B.C.
The present volume concludes the series of studies in Arabic literary papyri as envisaged in the Preface to Volume I. The studies reveal a steadily accelerating literary activity in both the religious
This volume presents transliterations of all the unpublished Sargonic material in the Louvre Museum except that from Lagash and Susa. Nearly all the texts are administrative documents concerning anima
We now have Raymond Bowman's long awaited edition of the Aramaic texts from Persepolis, unearthed during the expedition by the University of Chicago under Erich F. Schmidt between 1936 and 1938. Bowma
This book is made up of twelve articles, sometimes brilliant but always interesting, contributed in honour of the seventieth birthday of John A. Wilson by his students and colleagues of the Oriental I
Presents an illustrated collection of selected verse for introducing young children to the exciting realm of poetry, from the make-believe to the everyday. The other books by this author include "Firs
This collection of well-loved Christmas carols is brought to life by delightful illustrations, helping convey the meaning and the spirit of Christmas. Ideal for children aged 2-4.
An imposing array of scholars have united to pay a debt of piety to the late C. W. McEwan, whose untimely death in 1950 forestalled the publication of his campaign at Tell Fakhariyah, which took place
After a discussion of the fragmentary evidence for several buildings of the Greek period which were swept to construct it, the South Stoa at Corinth is treated in detail. Careful description of all th
People did not just look at things through history. They also heard them, smelled them, tasted them and touched them. In this thoughtfully-designed volume contributors can describe how the sound quali
This volume is concerned primarily with a detailed description of the Mary Rose and how she operated as a functional warship. Commencing with a discussion of the place of the Mary Rose in the developm
Based on archaeological evidence, especially faunal remains, from the temple complex, equid burial and well at Tel Haror, along with associated artefacts, Klenck presents an interpretation of Canaanit
The French art novel, with its tales of artists, models and creative struggles, is often thought to be a specifically nineteenth-century phenomenon, which dies out by 1900.
A major new GCSE textbook, providing a series of "lessons" in psychology. Each lesson is a self-contained, "bite-sized" explanation of a topic with frequent opportunities for readers to test their und
"When Tony Campbell, aged 75, asked the Council of Jesuit Theological College for Emeritus status and retirement from JTC, both were granted most graciously, along with a testimonial document
Regarding the size of the investigated area, the Copper Age site at Balatonoszod in Hungary is on par with Catal Hoyuk, one of the largest excavated settlements of the prehistoric world.
Obsidian-bearing sites spanning the temporal framework of the Palaeolithic and located in Africa and Europe are analysed in this volume with the aim of elucidating the evolution of modern social behav
The present volume has two parts. Part One is the complete listing of the 466 titles arranged in chronological order starting with the only incunabulum in the collection published in 1492 to the end o
This study is primarily concerned with computer-generated reconstruction models of architecture. It offers a collection of possible methodologies for dealing with individual problems concerning visual
This monograph is concerned with understanding the behaviours and land use practices associated with earlier Palaeolithic hominins in Syria, through consideration of key archaeological assemblages
Virtually unknown today, John Henry Haynes (1849-1910) may be regarded as the father of American archaeological photography. In a landmark study, with many photographs published for the first time, Ro
This volume reports on an extensive study of the landscape of the Upper Witham Valley, Jolliffe's home in Lincolnshire. It combines systematic fieldwalking with GIS results to piece together a picture
This book presents the results of archaeological research in the extreme south of Madagascar between 1991 and 2003, and provides a synthesis of the regions archaeology. Madagascar is an island with ma
The papers collected in this volume were, with a couple of exceptions, presented at a conference on Celtic coinage held at the Ashmolean Museum and the Institute of Archaeology, Oxford, on 6th 7th Dec
Before the 14 reports on recent archaeological work in Arabia, 10 papers honor the memory of A. F. L. Beeston (1911-95), a pillar of the profession, with personal accounts of him and studies on topics
With a bounty of illustrations this volume traces the history of furniture making in Mesopotamia over the course of some 10000 years. This is a much neglected area of study, and using his practical ex
This volume presents the latest research on Iberian post-Palaeolithic rock art, using innovative methodologies and analyses. With six appendices of data and extensive site gazetteers, the work is esse
The Andean civilisations grew in an isolated fashion, with almost no influence from the rest of the world or indeed from further north in the Americas. The various Andean states and empires all came t
Debates on the ethics of human subjects research meet with an increasing interest both within the medical profession and the broader public. Frequently, historical arguments are used to propagate or a
The lengthy subtitle aptly describes the content of this volume as an 'Analysis of the morphology, manufacture and use of selected categories of domestic wooden artefacts with particular reference to
The region of Queensland is divided into six areas through drainage divisions, something which Anne Best shows to correlate with stylistic differences in objects used by modern hunter-gatherers.
Ramesside Ostraca publishes in full the British Museum's collection of hieratic, hieroglyphic and figured ostraca of the Ramesside period in ancient Egypt.Each ostracon is illustrated with a photograp
