5,068円 This groundbreaking study brings into dialogue for the first time the writings of Julian, the last non-Christian Roman Emperor, and his most outspoken critic, Bishop Gregory of Nazianzus, a central figure of Christianity. Susanna Elm compares these two men not to draw out the obvious contrast bet...

4,927円 From constructing new buildings to describing rival-controlled areas as morally and physically dangerous, leaders in late antiquity fundamentally shaped their physical environment and thus the events that unfolded within it. Controlling Contested Places maps the city of Antioch (Antakya, Turkey) ...

4,927円 In the ancient Greece of Pericles and Plato, the polis, or city-state, reigned supreme, but by the time of Alexander, nearly half of the mainland Greek city-states had surrendered part of their autonomy to join the larger political entities called koina. In the first book in fifty years to tackle...

13,390円 Although it would appear in studies of late antique ecclesiastical authority and power that scholars have covered everything, an important aspect of the urban bishop has long been neglected: his role as demonologist and exorcist. When the emperor Constantine made Christianity the official religio...

5,632円 During the fourth century A.D., theological controversy divided Christian communities throughout the Eastern half of the Roman Empire. At stake was not only the truth about God but also the authority of church leaders, whose legitimacy depended on their claims to represent that truth. In this boo...

4,927円 Migrating Tales situates the Babylonian Talmud, or Bavli, in its cultural context by reading several rich rabbinic stories against the background of Greek, Syriac, Arabic, Persian, and Mesopotamian literature of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages, much of it Christian in origin. In this nua...

11,981円 Shenoute of Atripe: stern abbot, loquacious preacher, patron of the poor and scourge of pagans in fifth-century Egypt. This book studies his numerous Coptic writings and finds them to be the most important literary source for the study of society, economy and religion in late antique Egypt. The i...

2,800円 Gibt es Gott wirklich? Atheisten behaupten, der Glaube sei blind, subjektiv und nicht nachprüfbar. Dieser Behauptung stellen die Missionsärzte Klaus-Dieter und seine Frau Martina John die realen Erfahrungen rund um das Krankenhaus "Diospi Suyana" in Peru gegenüber. Millionen von Menschen auf fünf...

11,129円 Dieses Lehrbuch versteht sich als eine fachübergreifende Literaturgeschichte und stellt in den mehr als acht Jahrhunderten, die es umspannt – von den biblischen Apokryphen bis zu Isidor von Sevilla, Johannes von Damaskus und den orientalischen christlichen Literaturen – alle Literaturgattungen sä...

500円 Данная книга - авторское исследование темы любовной магии. Она представляет собою не только сборник различных рецептов из Древнего Египта, Средневековой Европы, Аравии и т.д. Но также содержит в себе исследование основных механизмов, которые стремились применить маги древности, а также и маги дне...

780円 Você sabia que, com os materias descritos a Arca de Noé realmente navegaria? E que ela tinha o tamanho de um navio transatlântico moderno? Além disso, cabia o equivalente a mais de 2 milhões de ovelhas dentro dela? Esses fatos bíblicos e muitos outros estão descritos nesta obra! Fatos incríveis q...

1,200円 Mendes - A Cidade do Deus Carneiro Há um ponto oculto no tecido do tempo onde o visível e o invisível se entrelaçam ー e ele pulsa nas margens esquecidas de uma cidade que jamais foi ruína, mas sempre rito. Em um Egito anterior ao Egito dos faraós, uma presença silenciosa moldava o curso do Nilo:...