"This is a major new study of the ideas and practices involved in the making and breaking of peace treaties and truces from Classical Greece to the time of the Crusades. Leading specialists on war and peace in ancient and medieval history examine the creation of peace agreements…
James C. VanderKam offers detailed summaries of significant ways in which the scrolls can enrich the reading and study of the Bible. Each chapter brings readers up-to-date with the latest pivotal developments, focusing on relevant information from the scrolls and expounding thei…
The vision for this impressive work on temple architecture in the Levant grew out of the author's work on Roman temple designs on the Iberian Peninsula and continual references to Semitic influences on the designs of sanctuaries both on the Peninsula and in North Africa. It was …
"The Achaemenid Persian Empire, at its greatest territorial extent under Darius I (r. 522-486 BCE), held sway over territory stretching from the Indus River Valley to southeastern Europe and from the western Himalayas to northeast Africa. In this book, Matt Waters gives a detail…
This volume includes all rulers' names, from a single original name through the growth of the five-fold titulary, from the so-called Dynasty 0 to the last Ptolemaic ruler, offered in transliteration and English translation with an introduction and notes.
This volume includes all rulers' names, from a single original name through the growth of the five-fold titulary, from the so-called Dynasty 0 to the last Ptolemaic ruler, offered in transliteration and English translation with an introduction and notes.
