This volume includes ten essays that move Ezekiel's creative reuse of older materials to the foreground of discussion. The essays highlight the transformation of earlier texts, traditions, and theolog
These papers focus on the concept of the chaine operatoire as applied in contemporary ceramics studies. Particular attention is given to experimental and archaeometrical approaches that allow for a
English summary: The ecclesiastical history of the heterodox historian Philostorg (around 430 AD) offers valuable insights into church and secular history of the 4th Century since Constantine, but als
New Testament Greek Intermediate is the companion volume to New Testament Greek Primer. The Intermediate text reviews grammar, expands vocabulary, and exposes the student to more New Testament context
In this provocative book, evolutionist and evangelical Christian Denis O. Lamoureux proposes an approach to origins that moves beyond the evolution-versus-creation debate. Arguing for an intimate rela
Berti (ancient history, U. of Heidelberg, Germany) and Morcillo (ancient history, U. of Dresden, Germany) collect 13 papers exploring representations of ancient Greece in film, from the mythological w
The Worldwide Anglican movement is a vibrant and flourishing, if sometimes troubled, international phenomenon. This new publication explores the nature of the Anglican identity from the Middle Ages to
The continent of Africa has played an important and independent role in the history of plant exploitation. The International Workshop on African Archaeobotany (IWAA) provides a meeting for archaeobota
This publication presents seven letters dating to the Ramesside period (c. 1200 BC) once in the Bankes' collection and recently given to the British Museum by the National Trust.
Five essays from the seminar analyze different sites and regions, based on archaeological monuments for artifacts, to explore processes of adaptation or adjustment to local cultural complexes. Among t
Blanton (Purdue U.) undertook excavations at the major Zapotec city in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, mapping the surface features, collecting and tabulating thousands of surface collections of pottery
Richard Tabor's updated thesis analyses the relationship between regional survey sampling and the narratives, or `archaeological story-telling', drawn from them. In essence he seeks to test how remote
This volume presents important discoveries relating to the origins and development of Roman Southwark, from excavations near London Bridge Station. In the prehistoric period, the area was occupied by
Pokines uses the terrestrial mammalian microfauna from the site of El Juyo (Santander, Spain) and related sites to reconstruct the palaeoenvironment of Cantabrian Spain. A new method of reconstruction
Aleister Crowley (1875-1947) poet, painter, novelist, explorer, mountaineer, chess master, classical scholar and drug addict was the founder of a religion called thelema , which, he claimed, had su
Lucretius' poem, for which Epicurean philosophy provided the inspiration, attempts to explain the nature of the universe and its processes with the object of freeing mankind from religious fears.
A comprehensive treatment of the basic elements of piano care: how to maintain them, how to improve their performance, and how to restore old instruments to fully working order.
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
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.
The story of the author's experiences of communication with a deceased friend through automatic writing, and how after much soul-searching she came to accept these communications as genuine.
This book is intended to encourage the use of comparative theology in contemporary Buddhist-Christian dialogue as a new approach that would truly respect each religious tradition's uniqueness and make
Does the Bible allow us to deceive? Is it ever right to lie? These are perennial questions that have been discussed and debated by theologians for centuries with little consensus.
The field of the theology of mission has developed variously across Christian traditions in the last century. Pentecostal scholars and missiologists have made their share of contributions to this area
It has been estimated that over 90% of England's figurative medieval art was obliterated in the image destruction of the Reformation. Medieval angel roofs, timber structures with spectacular and ornat
Since the publication of Ernst Badian's groundbreaking study "Foreign Clientelae" in 1958, his emphasis on the personal relations between Roman senators and members of the provincial
Schizophrenia is often considered one of the most destructive forms of mental illness. Elahe Hessamfar's personal experience with her daughter's illness has led her to ask some pressing and significan
Egyptian Cultural Identity in the Architecture of Roman Egypt (30 BC-AD 325) considers the relationship between architectural form and different layers of identity assertion in Roman Egypt. The Roman
Much of this book is a record of the time the author spent between 1965 and 1970 as an English teacher in Aneiza – a provincial town in central Saudi Arabia.
This book brings together a selection of twenty-eight previously disparate articles by Nicholas Postgate that represent some thirty years of engagement with the nature of Assyrian society and governme
Why have authors from the safe, social welfare state Sweden captivated the minds of the crime fiction readers across the globe? Kerstin Bergman suggests thatkiller marketing and a widespread curiosita
Pan Tianshou 1897-1971, inheriting the traditional Chinese painting, was a socialist painter. It had been his goal and spiritual fountain to revitalise national spirit by carrying forward the national
Aeschylus’ Suppliant Women begins with a procession of girls, dressed in foreign costume and carrying boughs – tokens of supplication – arriving in Argos. Fugitives from Egypt they are in flight from
Prehistoric Egypt, Socioeconomic Transformations in North-east Africa from the Last Glacial Maximum to the Neolithic, 24.000 to 4.000 BC takes a supra-regional approach to the environmental and socioe
Catherine Booth’s achievements - as a revivalist, social reformer, champion of women’s rights, and, with her husband William Booth, co-founder of the Salvation Army - were widely recognized in he lif
Aeschylus’ Suppliant Women begins with a procession of girls, dressed in foreign costume and carrying boughs – tokens of supplication – arriving in Argos. Fugitives from Egypt they are in flight from
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
In his detailed and thought-provoking work, Philip Goodwin conducts a thorough analysis of the challenges facing the Biblical translator, with particular focus on the problematic dominance of the King
P.CtYBR inv. 4000, owned by Yale University's Beinecke Library, is a fragmentary papyrus codex that comprises parts of six bifolia (24 pages) and contains Greek elegiac epigrams. Of the approximately
This is the second of three planned volumes in the final report on the cleaning and excavations at the Late Bronze Age site of Vronda near Kavousi in eastern Crete.
Michael Raffael advocates a creative approach to cooking: don't follow recipes too slavishly, use a little inspiration, improvise. After a successful career writing about and consulting for the food i
