"A conference held in Heidelberg in 2014 resulted in this collection of essays, which explore the multifaceted aspects of magical texts and practices in antiquity, focusing especially on the Graeco-Egyptian magical papyri. The authors concentrate on questions of cultural plurali…
Though the subject of classical reception in early modern Europe is a familiar one, modern scholarship has tended to assume the dominance of Greece and Rome in engagements with the classical world during that period. The essays in this volume aim to challenge this prevailing vie…
Women prophets gave powerful voice to Yahwist faith at the formative moments in ancient Israel's development, and were expected in Biblical visions of the future. Now they come to the foreground as Wilda C. Gafney explores prophetic practices in ancient Israel and different mode…
Women prophets gave powerful voice to Yahwist faith at the formative moments in ancient Israel's development, and were expected in Biblical visions of the future. Now they come to the foreground as Wilda C. Gafney explores prophetic practices in ancient Israel and different mode…
Civilizations of the ancient Near East presents this enormously rich world from a variety of perspectives. It describes the physical world of the ancient Near East, evaulates the impact of ancient near eastern civilizations on succeeding cultures, and reconstructs its cultural c…
Discussing the dawn of the age of metals, this work takes readers from the copper mines of the Aravah in Jordan and Israel where the ore was acquired, to the villages of the northern Negev such as Shiqmim, where copper was produced in household workshops.
