By John Reeves

ISBN-10: 9004104593

ISBN-13: 9789004104594

This quantity examines the transmission of biblical pseudepigraphic literature and motifs from their mostly Jewish cultural contexts in Palestine to constructing gnostic milieux of Syria and Mesopotamia, really that one mendacity in the back of the delivery and development of Manichaeism. It surveys biblical pseudepigraphic literary job within the past due old close to East, devoting certain recognition to revelatory works attributed to the 5 biblical forefathers who're stated within the Cologne Mani Codex: Adam, Seth, Enosh, Shem, and Enoch. the writer presents a philological, literary, and religio-historical research of every of the 5 pseudepigraphic citations inside the Codex, and gives hypotheses concerning the unique provenance of every quotation and the potential in which those traditions were tailored to their current context. This learn is a vital contribution to the scholarly reassessment of the jobs performed by means of moment Temple Judaism, Jewish Christian sectarianism, and classical gnosis within the formula and improvement of Syro-Mesopotamian non secular currents.

By A. P. Kazhdan

ISBN-10: 0520069625

ISBN-13: 9780520069626

Byzantium, that darkish sphere at the outer edge of medieval Europe, is often considered as the immutable residue of Rome's decline. during this hugely unique and provocative paintings, Alexander Kazhdan and Ann Wharton Epstein revise this conventional photo by means of documenting the dynamic social alterations that happened in the course of the 11th and 12th centuries.

By Shalom E. Holtz

ISBN-10: 1589839439

ISBN-13: 9781589839434

New translations of 50 transliterated texts for examine and lecture room use

This number of sixth-century B.C.E. Mesopotamian texts presents a close-up, usually dramatic, view of old court docket encounters laying off gentle on Neo-Babylonian felony tradition and lifestyle. as well as the felony texts, Holtz presents an advent to Neo-Babylonian social historical past, archival documents, and felony fabrics. this is often a necessary source for students drawn to the background of law.

By Levi Seeley

ISBN-10: 3847225243

ISBN-13: 9783847225249

This ebook is a part of the TREDITION CLASSICS sequence. The creators of this sequence are united through ardour for literature and pushed via the goal of creating all public area books to be had in published structure back - world wide. At tredition we think nice booklet by no means is going out of fashion. a number of commonly non-profit literature tasks offer content material to tredition. To aid their stable paintings, tredition donates a component to the proceeds from every one offered reproduction. As a reader of a TREDITION CLASSICS publication, you help our challenge to avoid wasting a number of the awesome works of worldwide literature from oblivion.** [C:\Users\Microsoft\Documents\Calibre Library]

By Professor Jonathan Conant

ISBN-10: 0521196973

ISBN-13: 9780521196970

What did it suggest to be Roman as soon as the Roman Empire had collapsed within the West? Staying Roman examines Roman identities within the quarter of recent Tunisia and Algeria among the fifth-century Vandal conquest and the seventh-century Islamic invasions. utilizing ancient, archaeological and epigraphic facts, this learn argues that the fracturing of the empire's political harmony additionally ended in a fracturing of Roman identification alongside political, cultural and non secular strains, as people who persisted to suppose 'Roman' yet who have been now not dwelling below imperial rule sought to redefine what it was once that hooked up them to their fellow Romans in other places. The ensuing definitions of Romanness may well overlap, yet weren't continuously together reinforcing. considerably, in past due antiquity Romanness had a pragmatic worth, and will be utilized in remarkably versatile how you can foster a feeling of similarity or distinction over house, time and ethnicity, in a large choice of conditions.

By Paul D. Aron, The Spieler Agency

ISBN-10: 1851098992

ISBN-13: 9781851098996

Award-winning writer Paul Aron takes readers on a trip via nice ancient mysteries during the a while. exciting in themselves, the tales additionally express that heritage isn't really basically dwelling, yet energetic. The reader who involves the ebook considering historical past is uninteresting will depart with a replaced outlook with reference to either the subject material and the method of writing history.Each bankruptcy is a gently and carefully researched presentation now not of popularized bills yet of legitimate old scholarship. Chronologically prepared, the essays express the ancient technique in motion. for every disputed historic aspect, theories come up, develop into average knowledge, after which are revised as more information turns into on hand. This booklet unearths the mechanics of that strategy, together with lively debate, swashbuckling archaeology, and the applying of recent technological know-how to old questions.

By Kenneth S. Sacks

ISBN-10: 0691036004

ISBN-13: 9780691036007

Living in Rome over the past years of the Republic, Diodorus of Sicily produced the main expansive heritage of the traditional international that has survived from antiquity--the Bibliotheke. while Diodorus himself has been usually noticeable as a "mere copyist" of past old traditions, Kenneth Sacks explores the complexity of his paintings to bare a historian with a different standpoint indicative of his times.

Sacks makes a speciality of 3 parts of Diodorus's heritage writing: tools of association and elegance, huge ancient and philosophical topics, and political sentiments. all through, Diodorus brought his personal principles or refashioned these present in his assets. particularly, his unfavorable response to Roman imperial rule is helping to light up the vague culture of competition historiography and to provide an explanation for the form and constitution of the Bibliotheke. considered as a unified paintings reflecting the highbrow and political opinions of the past due Hellenistic interval, the Bibliotheke becomes a tremendous resource for reading first-century ethical, political, and highbrow values.

Originally released in 1990.

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By Peter Connolly

350 + colour illustrations 38 maps eight x 12 Revised version incorporating new archeological examine Breathtaking research of twelve centuries of war during this new and revised variation, Peter Connolly combines an in depth account of the hands and armies of Greece and Rome along with his wonderful, full-color paintings. utilizing clean archeological proof and new fabric at the manufacture and use of guns, the writer provides luxurious colour illustrations famous because the top and such a lot actual in their variety. Chapters disguise association, strategies, armor and guns, fortifications, and lots more and plenty extra. The armies of Greece, Macedon, and Rome are introduced vividly to existence. Chapters at the wars among the Romans and Hannibal lucidly show the face of conflict in precedent days. Peter Connolly is well known for either his scholarship of the traditional international and his ability as an illustrator. he's the writer and illustrator of The Greek Armies, The Roman military, The Roman Cavalryman, and the traditional urban.

By Eleanor FranklinEgan

ISBN-10: 111256621X

ISBN-13: 9781112566219

Для сайта:Мир книгTHE simply thrill to be loved on a voyage around the Pacific in those perilous days is equipped by way of the stormy petrel. whilst that impressive chook stretches its black neck up in instruction for a rapid skimming flight around the floor of the ocean, it seems to be adequate like a periscope to supply a moderate quiver within the fear-center of even the visitor who ha» discovered n genuine sea probability zones to be steady-nerved and casual....

By Bowes&Kulikowski (eds)

ISBN-10: 9004004866

ISBN-13: 9789004004863