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Antioch on the Orontes
Two thousand years ago, Antioch on the Orontes River was the third most important city in the Roman Empire. Today, it is a small Turkish town of 200,000 inhabitants whose visitors may find it difficult to imagine this place at its peak. This book is a biography of Antioch — or Antakiyye of the Arabs, or Antakya of the Turks. It is a description of its youth under the Seleucid Dynasty, its adolescence under the Romans, the Byzantines, and the Norman Crusaders, and its long decline under the Marmelukes and the Ottomans. Antioch on the Orontes will also guide the reader through modern-day Antioch, highlighting significant historical sites. The book contains an introduction to theological developments in Antioch that have influenced Christendom and covers the many religions represented in the city today.
Land Between the Rivers
"Elegant, erudite, ambitious, inventive - a remarkable blend of research, imagination and first-hand experience "-Rory Stewart Land Between the Rivers is the result of ten years of research, writing, and thinking about the subject. It is an enormous topic: five thousand years, beginning with Gilgamesh at the edge of historical time. It is a big topic in another way. More than anywhere else, the famous Land Between the Rivers, where civilization was born, where East and West have mixed and clashed since long before Alexander, has led an existence that could be called, from a certain perspective, a history of the world. We begin the story with ancient Sumer, and Gilgamesh building the walls of Uruk ('Iraq') to make a great name for himself around the turn of the third millennium BC. We end it in 1958, as the last royal family of Iraq is slaughtered on the steps of a small royal palace in Baghdad, the most effervescent, free, and promising capital in the Middle East. Above all, the story of Iraq, the world's hinge country, is that of the great clash pitting humanism against the outlooks of power and fate.
Return to Antioch
This book is a call to the most ancient of churches to return to Antioch, the most historic mother city in Christendom outside of Jerusalem.
Aesthetics of Religion
This volume is the first English language presentation of the innovative approaches developed in the aesthetics of religion. The chapters present diverse material and detailed analysis on descriptive, methodological and theoretical concepts that together explore the potential of an aesthetic approach for investigating religion as a sensory and mediated practice. In dialogue with, yet different from, other major movements in the field (material culture, anthropology of the senses, for instance), it is the specific intent of this approach to create a framework for understanding the interplay between sensory, cognitive and socio-cultural aspects of world-construction. The volume demonstrates th...
Is There Not a Cause?
Is There Not a Cause? is not a book for the casual reader. It is instead a book to be read by the individual who truly has the desire to know and understand how God has preserved His precious Word throughout the course of time. Whether you were blessed to grow up in a home where it was never questioned that the Authorized or King James Bible was the preserved Words of God, whether you grew up in a home or went to a church where any Bible was considered the preserved Words of God, or whether you are a new Christian confused by all the different “Bibles” available today, if you truly want to know how God preserved His Words, then this book is for you. This is a book that has been years in the making. Dr. Andrew Steers is an obvious student of the Bible, and he has spent years in the preparation and study needed to qualify him to write this book. This is a book that is desperately needed in this era and should be read and studied by every Christian, but especially by those planning to serve God in full-time service.
Cultural Horizons
Cultural Horizons recognizes the extraordinary achievements of Talat Sait Halman throughout his multifaceted career as Turkey's Minister of Culture, Ambassador for Cultural Affairs, professor, poet, translator, literary author and critic, newspaper columnist, and public speaker. Seventy-two distinguished scholars, journalists, translators, and creative writer from around the world have written for this work. Contributions include poetry, essays, a play, and articles.
Die älteste Kirche der Welt
Bereits vor Konstantin hat es christliche Versammlungsstätten und auch Kirchengebäude gegeben. Anhand literarischer und archäologischer Quellen versucht Reiner Sörries eine Rekonstruktion des weitgehend unbekannten Kirchenbaus in den ersten drei christlichen Jahrhunderten. Obwohl der frühchristliche Kirchenbau zu den zentralen Themen der Christlichen Archäologie gehört, wurde – der Annahme folgend, dass es Kirchen im eigentlichen Sinn erst nach der konstantinischen Wende geben kann – den Kirchen vor Konstantin bisher kaum Beachtung geschenkt. Dieser Band nimmt sich der Frage an, welcher Bau tatsächlich als "die älteste Kirche der Welt" gelten kann. Dabei zeichnet der Autor die prozessuale Entwicklung der frühchristlichen Kultstätten nach: Ein Weg von zweckdienlichen, temporär genutzten Räumen über permanent dem Gottesdienst dienende Gebäuden bis hin zu den ersten, eigenständigen Kirchengebäuden, die es zweifellos bereits vor Konstantin gegeben hat.
Antioch
Winner of ASOR's 2022 G. Ernest Wright Award for the most substantial volume dealing with archaeological material, excavation reports and material culture from the ancient Near East and Eastern Mediterranean. This is a complete history of Antioch, one of the most significant major cities of the eastern Mediterranean and a crossroads for the Silk Road, from its foundation by the Seleucids, through Roman rule, the rise of Christianity, Islamic and Byzantine conquests, to the Crusades and beyond. Antioch has typically been treated as a city whose classical glory faded permanently amid a series of natural disasters and foreign invasions in the sixth and seventh centuries CE. Such studies have ob...
