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mobi |eng | 2008-07-16 | Author:William G. Dever

(2) The only known full-fledged Israelite temple of the monarchic period is the one excavated at Arad, east of Beersheba, by Yohanan Aharoni in the 196os. This building was controversial ...
( Category: General February 15,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-01-25 | Author:Kirsch, Jonathan [Kirsch, Jonathan]

“Constantine is not fighting against us but against the gods,” Licinius announced in advance of the decisive battle, according to Constantine’s chronicler, Eusebius of Caesarea. “Now we shall see who ...
( Category: General February 15,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2004-06-29 | Author:Pagels, Elaine [Pagels, Elaine]

Tacitus interprets Nero’s action in terms of his need for a scapegoat. As yet, the government may have considered the Christians outside Rome—if it considered them at all—too insignificant to ...
( Category: Christianity February 15,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-02-29 | Author:Van Voorst, Robert E.

Table 3 The Contents of the Signs Source in John Fortna gives a brief discussion of the character of SQ.304 It was a written book, as its conclusion, now in ...
( Category: New Testament February 15,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-18 | Author:Cumont, Franz [Cumont, Franz]

It is also probable that the toilet of the statue was made every day, that its body and head were dressed, as in the Egyptian ritual. We have seen that ...
( Category: General February 15,2015 )
epub |eng | 2006-01-31 | Author:Finkelstein, Israel & Silberman, Neil Asher [Finkelstein, Israel]

CREATING THE SOLOMONIC MYTH The stories of Solomon in the Bible are uniquely cosmopolitan. Foreign leaders are not enemies to be conquered or tyrants to be suffered; they are equals ...
( Category: General February 15,2015 )
epub, azw3 |zho | 2015-02-09 | Author:Phillips, Jonathan [Phillips, Jonathan]

CHAPTER TEN ‘I should like you to know that a number of my people do not love me’ Triumph and Tensions at Constantinople, July—August 1203 IN SPITE OF the crusaders’ ...
( Category: Christianity February 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-02 | Author:Davis, Richard H.

( Category: General February 3,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-21 | Author:Randall L. Nadeau

Offerings to the Hindu gods are made in a worship service (pūja) conducted in a temple (Figure 17.1) and presided over by trained priests. Devotees participate in these offerings with ...
( Category: General January 30,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-15 | Author:Melvyn Bragg

Its use and its purpose could appear to have come to an end. The weapon of destruction, of course, was a book, by the leading star in the constellation of ...
( Category: General January 29,2015 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2007-04-03 | Author:Finkelstein, Israel & Silberman, Neil Asher [Finkelstein, Israel]

CREATING THE SOLOMONIC MYTH The stories of Solomon in the Bible are uniquely cosmopolitan. Foreign leaders are not enemies to be conquered or tyrants to be suffered; they are equals ...
( Category: Christianity January 29,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-03-24 | Author:Lewis, Bernard [Lewis, Bernard]

CHAPTER V SATAN AND THE SOVIETS America’s new role—and the Middle East’s perception of it—was vividly illustrated by an incident in Pakistan in 1979. On November 20, a band of ...
( Category: Islam January 20,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-10-26 | Author:Tyerman, Christopher [Tyerman, Christopher]

BYZANTIUM AND THE CRUSADE No such thing as a ‘western attitude’ to Byzantium existed in the twelfth and early thirteenth century. It remains a myth of crusading historiography. Instead, a ...
( Category: General December 27,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2009-01-01 | Author:Diarmaid MacCulloch

17 A House Divided (1517-1660) A DOOR IN WITTENBERG Two incidents stick in the popular consciousness from Martin Luther's career: first, that he nailed some theses to a door in ...
( Category: Christianity December 21,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-04-12 | Author:Smith, Mark S. [Smith, Mark S.]

CHAPTER 7 Postscript: Portraits of Yahweh 1. Processes Leading to Divine Portraiture in Israel The development toward monotheism in Israel involved complex processes of convergence and differentiation of deities. The ...
( Category: General December 15,2014 )