"This original study examines the economic and political role of sanctuaries in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor. It proposes a triangular relationship of city, cult, and ruler, and explores the cults as entities with independent interests and powers, different from those of the…
Review text: "Insgesamt eine beachtenswerte Studie, die für Auskünfte über das biblische Bethel und sein Heiligtum nicht außer Acht gelassen werden darf."B. Weber in: Old Testament Essays 1/2007 "Gleichwohl ist das Buch für alle weiteren Studien über Bet-El unverzichtbar."M. Köh…
Includes the Emmanuel A.M.E. Church, the French Huguenot Church, Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim, Mepkin Abbey, and the Meher Spiritual Center in Myrtle Beach.
Includes the Emmanuel A.M.E. Church, the French Huguenot Church, Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim, Mepkin Abbey, and the Meher Spiritual Center in Myrtle Beach.
On 23rd March, 1900, Sir Arthur Evans started to excavate the Palace at Knossos. Among the first parts to be investigated was the west wing of the Palace, the central part of which forms the Central Palace Sanctuary. This monument is of outstanding importance for our understandi…
The interpretation of early religious sites has hitherto been undertaken on a largely subjective basis, without any coherent body of interpretative theory. The opportunity of tackling some of these problems was offered by the excavation of a sanctuary (1360-1100 BC) at Phylakopi…
