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The Early Alphabet
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 68

The Early Alphabet

00 In this generously illustrated book, John Healey outlines the basic principles of the early alphabet and describes the first attempts at alphabetic writing in the Semitic languages. In this generously illustrated book, John Healey outlines the basic principles of the early alphabet and describes the first attempts at alphabetic writing in the Semitic languages.

The Religion of the Nabataeans
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 260

The Religion of the Nabataeans

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-08-27
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  • Publisher: BRILL

The history of the Nabataean Kingdom of Hellenistic-Roman times, centred on Petra, is now well known, but until the publication of this book, no monograph has been devoted to Nabataean religion, known to us principally from inscriptions in Nabataean Aramaic, iconography, archaeology and Greek literary texts. After a critical survey of the sources, the author analyses systematically the information on the individual gods worshipped by the Nabataeans, including a detailed illustrated account of temples and iconography. A further major section discusses religious themes: aniconism, henotheism, death-cult and the divinisation of kings. In a final chapter, Nabataean religion is considered in relation to Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The book will be of particular interest to historians of religion in the Graeco-Roman Near East and to Semitic epigraphists.

A Companion to the Hellenistic and Roman Near East
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 580

A Companion to the Hellenistic and Roman Near East

Discover a comprehensive and cross-disciplinary handbook exploring several sub-regions and key themes perfect for a new generation of students A Companion to the Hellenistic and Roman Near East delivers the first complete handbook in the area of Hellenistic and Roman Near Eastern history. The book is divided into sections dealing with interdisciplinary source material, each with a great deal of regional variety and engaging with several key themes. It integrates discussions of the classical Near East with the typical undergraduate teaching syllabus in the Anglo-Saxon world. All contributors in this edited volume are leading scholars in their field, with a combination of established researche...

Frugality
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 342

Frugality

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008
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  • Publisher: Peter Lang

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Real Estate Record and Builders' Guide
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1256

Real Estate Record and Builders' Guide

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1869
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Real Estate Record and Builder's Guide
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 666

Real Estate Record and Builder's Guide

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1871
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Israel's Beneficent Dead
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 428

Israel's Beneficent Dead

Did the ancient Israelites perform rituals expressive of the belief in the supernatural beneficent power of the dead? Contrary to long held notions of primitive society and the euhemeristic origin of the divine, various factors indicate that the ancestor cult, that is, ancestor veneration or worship, was not observed in the Iron Age Levant. The Israelites did not adopt an ancient Canaanite ancestor cult that became the object of biblical scorn. Yet, a variety of mortuary rituals and cults were performed in Levantine society; mourning and funerary rites and longer-term rituals such as the care for the dead and commemoration. Rituals and monuments in or at burial sites, and especially the reci...

House documents
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1562

House documents

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1894
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Official Register
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1442

Official Register

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1892
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Pliny the Elder on Science and Technology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 498

Pliny the Elder on Science and Technology

The Elder Pliny's Natural History provides a wide-ranging account of human achievement in the arts and sciences in the first century AD. This book re-examines Pliny's work for the first time since the 1920s. Modern experiments, simulating the techniques described by Pliny, and an in-depth study of his development of a technical language, confirm his unique contribution to our knowledge of science in early imperial Rome.