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Books > Humanities > Archaeology > Archaeology by period / region > Middle & Near Eastern archaeology > Biblical archaeology

The Quest for the Ark of the Covenant - The True History of the Tablets of Moses (Paperback, New edition): Stuart Munro-Hay The Quest for the Ark of the Covenant - The True History of the Tablets of Moses (Paperback, New edition)
Stuart Munro-Hay
R1,262 Discovery Miles 12 620 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In a chapel in the old crenellated church of Mary of Zion in Aksum, Ethiopia is kept an object that emperors, patriarchs and priests have assured the world is the most important religious relic of all time: the tabota Seyon, Ark of the Covenant, the Ark of Zion. This Ark is alleged to be no other than the Ark that Moses had constructed at Sinai and which destroyed the walls of Jericho. It was brought into Jerusalem by King David and installed in a magnificent temple by King Solomon. Then, the story goes, it came to Ethiopia of its own choice with the half-Ethiopian, half-Jewish son of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. Are the legends true? Or is this story a monumental deception? Is there any real proof or is it the faith of a people alone that has created this Ark? From ancient texts to local stories, from the Bible to the writings of sixteenth and seventeenth century Jesuits, Stuart Munro-Hay traces the extraordinary legend of Ethiopia's Ark in what is a triumph of historical detective work. Munro-Hay scrutinises every mention of the Ark in Ethiopian records and tests every theory before he reaches his shocking conclusion. "The Quest for the Ark of the Covenant" promises to settle the mystery of the Ark of the Covenant for once and for all.

Excavations at Tawilan in Southern Jordan (Hardcover): Crystal-M. Bennett, Piotr Bienkowski Excavations at Tawilan in Southern Jordan (Hardcover)
Crystal-M. Bennett, Piotr Bienkowski
R1,842 R1,635 Discovery Miles 16 350 Save R207 (11%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This final report on an Iron Age site in southern Jordan, the biblical kingdom of Edom, is the first ever to be published and sheds light on an important aspect of biblical history.

The Destruction of Sodom, Gomorrah, and Jericho - Geological, Climatological, and Archaeological Background (Hardcover, New):... The Destruction of Sodom, Gomorrah, and Jericho - Geological, Climatological, and Archaeological Background (Hardcover, New)
K.O. Emery, David Neev
R6,928 Discovery Miles 69 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The story of the destruction of Sodom, Gomorrah, and Jericho--three cities situated along a major fault line extending 1,100 kilometers from the Red Sea to Turkey--is the oldest such description in human history. In this book, noted geologists K.O. Emery and David Neev have revisited that story to shed light on what happened there some 4,350 years ago. With all the benefits of modern geological and forensic science techniques at their disposal, the authors explore an area where earthquakes, volcanic activity, variations in the Dead Sea's level, and oscillations between arid and wet climates have affected life there for over 10,000 years. In reviewing the geology, biblical paleogeography, and limnology of the region, the authors have produced fascinating insights into the tectonic and climatic changes that have occurred in the region over the last 6,000 years and how those changes have affected cultural life in the Middle East. The Destruction of Sodom, Gomorrah, and Jericho is the first book to combine modern science and biblical archaeology to produce an authoritative account of the of these three great cities. It will fascinate students and researchers in geology, geophysics, and archaeology alike.

Discovering Eve - Ancient Israelite Women in Context (Paperback, Revised): Carol Meyers Discovering Eve - Ancient Israelite Women in Context (Paperback, Revised)
Carol Meyers
R1,156 Discovery Miles 11 560 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The biblical image of Eve has powerfully influenced ideas about women for the past two millennia. Yet, as Carol Meyers argues in Discovering Eve, the image of the first of women as subservient and dependent does not represent some irreducible historical truth. Rather, it represents the androcentric constructions of a group of urban elite males (including, most notably, the Apostle Paul and Rabbi Yohannan) who had a decisive effect on the founding of Judaeo-Christian traditions. Meyers produces convincing evidence, archaeological, scriptural, and sociological, that ancient Israelite woman fulfilled a role very different from that of the biblical Eve. The real Eve, she demonstrates, was a figure of some social substance, a strong and important figure in the social and familial milieux.

Archeologie de la Bible hebraique - Culture scribale et Yahwismes (French, Paperback): Christophe Lemardele Archeologie de la Bible hebraique - Culture scribale et Yahwismes (French, Paperback)
Christophe Lemardele
R877 Discovery Miles 8 770 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Apres la formidable avancee que fut la theorie documentaire a la fin du xixe siecle, identifiant des " auteurs " et des ecoles de redaction, un siecle plus tard, la theorie a laisse de plus en plus la place a un reel complexe, celui des scribes modifiant les textes a mesure qu'ils les copiaient. " La Bible " n'apparait plus alors comme etant un projet theologique et historiographique maitrise mais comme l'agencement empirique de textes heterogenes relies entre eux par une ideologie religieuse evolutive. Si le grand recit d'ensemble des premiers livres se construit sur l'election et la migration d'un peuple en son entier, les fondements ideologiques du yahwisme font plutot etat d'un dieu etranger qui serait parvenu jusqu'en terre israelite pour, a terme, s'y imposer. Cette ideologie monotheiste fut surtout un exclusivisme qui se renforca de l'epoque des rois d'Israel et de Juda jusqu'aux revoltes judeennes contre Rome aux premiers siecles de notre ere. Pour tenter de saisir la nature et l'origine, ainsi que l'evolution, de cette forme specifique de monotheisme, qui a fait d'un dieu jaloux le seul Dieu, nous nous sommes appuye avant tout sur le concept des " deux yahwismes ". Cette theorie permet en effet de comprendre comment un dieu faisant alliance avec un peuple en particulier a pu etre egalement un dieu createur de l'univers et de l'humanite entiere.

Bible, Map and Spade - The American Palestine Exploration Society, Frederick Jones Bliss and the Forgotten Story of Early... Bible, Map and Spade - The American Palestine Exploration Society, Frederick Jones Bliss and the Forgotten Story of Early American Biblical Archaeology (Hardcover, Gorgias Press)
Rachel Hallote
R3,439 Discovery Miles 34 390 Out of stock

This volume resurrects the forgotten history of early American involvement in biblical archaeology. Frederick Jones Bliss, an American from a prominent missionary family, is central to the story as he was the first of any nationality to scientifically excavate the tells of Palestine.

The Earliest Records of Christianity - With a New Introduction by George A. Kiraz (Paperback): Eleazar Sukenik, George Kiraz,... The Earliest Records of Christianity - With a New Introduction by George A. Kiraz (Paperback)
Eleazar Sukenik, George Kiraz, John Daniel
R1,053 Discovery Miles 10 530 Out of stock

This reprint of Sukenik's article "The Earliest Records of Christianity" is presented as the first volume of Gorgias Press's Analecta Gorgiana series with a new introduction by George Anton Kiraz. This fully illustrated archaeological abstract is sure to be of interest to readers concerned with the archaeology of the area around Jerusalem, as well as those interested in early artifacts of Christianity.

Bibliotheca Orientalis Clementino-Vaticana (Vol 2) - An Encyclopedia of Syriac Authors (Hardcover): Joseph Assemani Bibliotheca Orientalis Clementino-Vaticana (Vol 2) - An Encyclopedia of Syriac Authors (Hardcover)
Joseph Assemani
R3,275 Discovery Miles 32 750 Out of stock

The 4,000-page Bibliotheca Orientalis Clementino-Vaticana is described as "the first and best encyclopedia for the study of early Syriac Christian literature" by the Blackwell Dictionary of Eastern Christianity. It is the standard encyclopedia in the field.

Biblical Peoples and Ethnicity - An Archaeological Study of Egyptians, Canaanites, Philistines, and Early Israel 1300-1100... Biblical Peoples and Ethnicity - An Archaeological Study of Egyptians, Canaanites, Philistines, and Early Israel 1300-1100 B.C.E. (Hardcover)
Ann E. Killebrew
R4,395 Discovery Miles 43 950 Out of stock

Ancient Israel did not emerge within a vacuum but rather came to exist alongside various peoples, including Canaanites, Egyptians, and Philistines. Indeed, Israel's very proximity to these groups has made it difficult-until now-to distinguish the archaeological traces of early Israel and other contemporary groups. Through an analysis of the results from recent excavations in light of relevant historical and later biblical texts, this book proposes that it is possible to identify these peoples and trace culturally or ethnically defined boundaries in the archaeological record. Features of late second-millennium B.C.E. culture are critically examined in their historical and biblical contexts in order to define the complex social boundaries of the early Iron Age and reconstruct the diverse material world of these four peoples. Of particular value to scholars, archaeologists, and historians, this volume will also be a standard reference and resource for students and other readers interested in the emergence of early Israel. "Paperback edition is available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org)"

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