Deeply rooted in the story of Jesus of Nazareth is a concern for people mired in debt. Debt was a central control mechanism for the administration of the Roman Empire. Client states such as those of t
'Stranger Within' points out some of the consequences for European culture of the presence of an ‘Old Testament’ within the Christian scriptural tradition. There are many works that give an account of
The Camp David Peace Accords between Egypt and Israel initiated an archaeological salvage project in portions of the central and southern Negev (Israel). As a participant in the Negev Emergency Survey
A report on excavations carried out by the Birmingham University Field Archaeology Unit in the Valley of the River Tame in Staffordshire between 1997 and 1998.
From AD 81-192 almost all bronze coinage circulation in the western Empire was minted in Rome. This study examines, in some detail, the distribution by date and by reverse types of the coins. It also
Ancient Egypt was noted for its mineral wealth, and the prolific use of semi-precious stones in jewelry and personal ornamentation. This study focuses on just one such mineral, turquoise, exploring it
This book, slightly eccentric in style, is an attempt to prove a pet theory of the author's, that the Roman navy under Agricola reached Shetland, landing at Lerwick as a harbour, which should be ident
This book reports the most famous dispute between the Church and the State over the presence of paintings, mosaics, and statues in churches, in the period from 717 to 843. In no other book was the Ico
This volume closely examines and catalogs a limited set of glyphic elements found at the archaeological site of Teotihuacan in Mexico. This study serves as an initial investigation to verify whether t
This study uses theoretical perspectives of landscape phenomenology to consider the the experience of medieval pilrimage on the Camino de Santiago de Compostela, focusing on the journey itself, and th
The Neolithic Catalhoyuk (c. 7400-6000 cal. BC), in the Konya Plain of Central Anatolia, was made famous by the excavations of James Mellaart in 1960s, who uncovered remains of a large, pueblo-like ag
This publication is the volume is the proceedings of the ICAZ Archaeomalacology Working Group which took place at the 11th International Conference of the International Council for Archaeozoology (ICA
"Research Articles:Resurrection and Reality in the Theology of Dietrich BonhoefferChristopher RJ Holmes Bridging the Gap: Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Early Theology and its Influence on Discipleshi
Alan Ayckbourn is, after Shakespeare is Britain's most performed playwright and acknowledged as one of its most skilful directors. In 50 years he has written more than seventy plays and directed three
The American Journal of Numismatics is a peer-reviewed, scholarly journal containing articles on numismatic topics, book reviews, and obituaries of notable figures in the field.
The main objective of this book is to discuss the afterlife and reception of burial mounds by studying local interest in them through folklore, but also through disturbance and monument reuse. To this
The book derives from the experiences of the authors as lecturers and tutors at different international summer schools on reality-based surveying and 3D modelling in the field of archaeology and cultu
Engendering objects explores social and cultural dynamics among Maisin people in Collingwood Bay (Papua New Guinea) through the lens of material culture. Focusing upon the visually stimulating decorat
Against the commonly held opinion that ancient Judaism was an artless culture, this sumptuously illustrated book offers new ways of looking at art in Jewish antiquity. Leading experts, under the edito
Colin Austin, Professor of Greek at Cambridge University 1998–2008, was one of the world’s foremost experts in the reconstruction and interpretation of Greek comedy. When he died in August 2010, he wa
The material presented here is derived from an extensive survey conducted by the Polis-Pyrgos Archaeological Project (PAP) in 1992-1994, 1996-1997, and 1999 in the area between the western bank of the
From North to South brings together the interests in Edward Schillebeeckx of eight theologians from Australia, New Zealand and Malaysia. In each chapter, theologians dialogue from a southern context w
The present study on ancient Chinese philosophy invites us to meet a challenging task in philosophical understanding. The so-called "School of Names" (Mingjia ??) is a label for a di
Contents: Introduction (Robert Hillenbrand); I. METALWORK AND TEXTILES: The Freer Canteen: Jerusalem or Jazira? (Teresa Fitzherbert); Mamluk Textiles (Maria Sardi); The Captivating Power of Textiles (
Contents: Introduction (Francoise Fauconnier and Serge Lemaitre); 1) Rock art sites as spiritual places ? Canadian Shield rock art as part of the Algonquian sacred landscape (Daniel Arsenault); 2) Thu
Vipassana-meditation (or practice) has become popular in South East Asia and the West. However, these practices aiming at reaching insight are taught in many varieties. The focus of this book is on th
The purpose of this study is to examine the healing strategies employed by the inhabitants of Egypt during the Roman period, from the late first century BC to the fourth century AD, in order to explor
Quite simply, the most important-and the most printed-English cookery book of the eighteenth century which defines for many the food and dining customs of the Georgian era. This is a facsimile edition
Cities have tended throughout history to be the preferred location for the minting and circulation of coins and coinage has in turn generally reflected the importance of many of these cities. This wor
The works of Scottish poet and philosopher James Beattie (1735-1803) have been relatively neglected by modern scholarship, though his contemporaries considered him an important poetic and philosophica
This book contains most of the papers presented at the final LASHIPA workshop in St Petersburg, Russia 2-4 November 2009. The workshop was organized to finalize the bilateral LASHIPA Russia-Netherland
Influential German theologian Rad (1901-71) was professor of Old Testament at the University of Heidelberg. In this short treatise, he draws on and refers to his larger and deeper accounts of the Old
A detailed study of ceramics from the Iberian sites commonly known as 'Las Motillas' - arguably the most singular form of prehistoric settlement on the Iberian Peninsula. Located in the central are
A remarkable and lavishly illustrated selection of 145 historic hand and desk seals from a significant and previously undocumented private collection. These seals are mainly from Great Britain and oth
Published by the British Institute at Ankara and distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co., this two-volume set represents the findings of a multi-season survey project. (The dates of t
This is the first detailed, wide-ranging report to be published on excavations in the extramural settlement of the Roman legionary fortress at Chester (north-western England), specifically those ar
This volume focuses on the role of the postulated derivational and filtering devices in current linguistic theory and aims to promote the exchange of ideas between the proponents of MP and OT in order
Although the earliest known literary evidence for a dual-sexed divinity on Cyprus dates to the fifth century BCE, archaeological evidence indicates there was a tradition on the island of sexually a
The heart amulet is one of the most often depicted images in Egyptian art. Due to the scarcity of archaeological information available about the heart amulet, its artistic depictions represent an impo
Egypt, Carthage and other African civilisations are well documented but the land and people between them are less well known yet also worthy of consideration.
