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Sefer Mishlei - Book of Proverbs (Paperback): Eliyahu Ben Gedaliah Sefer Mishlei - Book of Proverbs (Paperback)
Eliyahu Ben Gedaliah
R474 Discovery Miles 4 740 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Imhotep - The Life and Legacy of the High Priest Who Designed Ancient Egypt's First Major Pyramid (Paperback): Charles... Imhotep - The Life and Legacy of the High Priest Who Designed Ancient Egypt's First Major Pyramid (Paperback)
Charles River
R302 Discovery Miles 3 020 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Religion of Ancient Rome - Ancient Classics (Paperback): Cyril Bailey M a The Religion of Ancient Rome - Ancient Classics (Paperback)
Cyril Bailey M a
R219 Discovery Miles 2 190 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Harden Not Your Hearts Israel - Today When You Hear His Voice (Paperback): Mitchell D Ewing Sr Harden Not Your Hearts Israel - Today When You Hear His Voice (Paperback)
Mitchell D Ewing Sr
R471 Discovery Miles 4 710 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Practical Mysticism (Paperback): Evelyn Underhill Practical Mysticism (Paperback)
Evelyn Underhill
R492 R458 Discovery Miles 4 580 Save R34 (7%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Representations of Classical Greece in Theme Parks (Hardcover): Filippo Carla-Uhink Representations of Classical Greece in Theme Parks (Hardcover)
Filippo Carla-Uhink
R3,567 Discovery Miles 35 670 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Theme park studies is a growing field in social and cultural studies. Nonetheless, until now little attention has been dedicated to the choice of the themes represented in the parks and the strategies of their representation. This is particularly interesting when the theme is a historical one, for example ancient Greece. Which elements of classical Greece find their way into a theme park and how are they chosen and represented? What is the "entertainment" element in ancient Greek history, culture and myth, which allows its presence in commercial structures aiming to people's fun? How does the representation of Greece change against different cultural backgrounds, e.g. in different European countries, in the USA, in China? This book frames a discussion of these representations within the current debates about immersive spaces, uses of history and postmodern aesthetics, and analyses how ancient Greece has been represented and made "enjoyable" in seven different theme parks across the world, providing an original and ground-breaking contribution to theme park studies and classical reception.

Enlightenment - Book One of the Bathala Series (Paperback): Reno Ursal Enlightenment - Book One of the Bathala Series (Paperback)
Reno Ursal
R363 R338 Discovery Miles 3 380 Save R25 (7%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Greek Sacred Law (2nd Edition with a Postscript) - A Collection of New Documents (NGSL) (Paperback, 2nd New edition): Eran Lupu Greek Sacred Law (2nd Edition with a Postscript) - A Collection of New Documents (NGSL) (Paperback, 2nd New edition)
Eran Lupu
R2,070 Discovery Miles 20 700 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This work contains two parts. Part I constitutes a guide to the corpus of Greek sacred law and its contents. A discussion of the history of the corpus and the principles governing its composition is followed by a detailed review of its contents, in which the evidence is classified according to subject matter. Part II contains inscriptions published since the late 1960s from all around the Greek world excluding Cos and Asia Minor (checklists for these are appended). The text of each inscription is presented alongside restorations, epigraphical commentary, translation, and a comprehensive running commentary. Most of the inscriptions are illustrated. The volume should prove useful to scholars of Greek religion, historians, and epigraphists.

Romanising Oriental Gods - Myth, Salvation and Ethics in the Cults of Cybele, Isis and Mithras (English, Greek, To, Paperback):... Romanising Oriental Gods - Myth, Salvation and Ethics in the Cults of Cybele, Isis and Mithras (English, Greek, To, Paperback)
Jaime Alvar
R1,817 Discovery Miles 18 170 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The traditional grand narrative correlating the decline of Graeco-Roman religion with the rise of Christianity has been under pressure for three decades. This book argues that the alternative accounts now emerging significantly underestimate the role of three major cults, of Cybele and Attis, Isis and Serapis, and Mithras. Although their differences are plain, these cults present sufficient common features to justify their being taken typologically as a group. All were selective adaptations of much older cults of the Fertile Crescent. It was their relative sophistication, their combination of the imaginative power of unfamiliar myth with distinctive ritual performance and ethical seriousness, that enabled them both to focus and to articulate a sense of the autonomy of religion from the socio-political order, a sense they shared with Early Christianity. The notion of 'mystery' was central to their ability to navigate the Weberian shift from ritualist to ethical salvation.

Ancient Angels - Conceptualizing Angeloi in the Roman Empire (Paperback): Rangar Cline Ancient Angels - Conceptualizing Angeloi in the Roman Empire (Paperback)
Rangar Cline
R1,512 Discovery Miles 15 120 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Although angels are typically associated with Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, Ancient Angels demonstrates that angels (angeloi) were also a prominent feature of non-Abrahamic religions in the Roman era. Following an interdisciplinary approach, the study uses literary, inscriptional, and archaeological evidence to examine Roman conceptions of angels, how residents of the empire venerated angels, and how Christian authorities responded to this potentially heterodox aspect of Roman religion. The book brings together the evidence for popular beliefs about angels in Roman religion, demonstrating the widespread nature of speculation about, and veneration of, angels in the Roman Empire

Religious Practices and Christianization of the Late Antique City (4th - 7th cent.) (English, French, Paperback): Aude Busine Religious Practices and Christianization of the Late Antique City (4th - 7th cent.) (English, French, Paperback)
Aude Busine
R1,527 Discovery Miles 15 270 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

In Religious Practices and Christianization of the Late Antique City, historians, archaeologists and historians of religion provide studies of the phenomenon of the Christianization of the Roman Empire within the context of the transformations and eventual decline of the Greco-Roman city. The eleven papers brought together here aim to describe the possible links between religious, but also political, economic and social mutations engendered by Christianity and the evolution of the antique city. Combining a multiplicity of sources and analytical approaches, this book seeks to measure the impact on the city of the progressive abandonment of traditional cults to the advantage of new Christian religious practices.

The ministry of the prophet Elisha (Paperback): Emmanuel Onyemena The ministry of the prophet Elisha (Paperback)
Emmanuel Onyemena
R563 Discovery Miles 5 630 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Divination with Runes - A Beginner's Guide to Rune Casting (Paperback): Monique Joiner Siedlak Divination with Runes - A Beginner's Guide to Rune Casting (Paperback)
Monique Joiner Siedlak
R279 Discovery Miles 2 790 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Egyptian Mythology - A Guide to Egyptian History, Gods, and Mythology (Paperback): Peter Collins Egyptian Mythology - A Guide to Egyptian History, Gods, and Mythology (Paperback)
Peter Collins
R321 R294 Discovery Miles 2 940 Save R27 (8%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Contact with the Other World - The Latest Evidence as to Communication with the Dead (Paperback): James H. Hyslop Contact with the Other World - The Latest Evidence as to Communication with the Dead (Paperback)
James H. Hyslop
R822 Discovery Miles 8 220 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Liber Deorum - The Book of the GODS (Paperback): Rain Draken Liber Deorum - The Book of the GODS (Paperback)
Rain Draken
R1,492 Discovery Miles 14 920 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Gateway, Book One - Los Dos Velas The two candles (Paperback): Chanelle Maris Arnold The Gateway, Book One - Los Dos Velas The two candles (Paperback)
Chanelle Maris Arnold
R291 Discovery Miles 2 910 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Aztec Religion and Art of Writing - Investigating Embodied Meaning, Indigenous Semiotics, and the Nahua Sense of Reality... Aztec Religion and Art of Writing - Investigating Embodied Meaning, Indigenous Semiotics, and the Nahua Sense of Reality (Paperback)
Isabel Laack
R2,080 Discovery Miles 20 800 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Winner of the 2020 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Historical Studies In her groundbreaking investigation from the perspective of the aesthetics of religion, Isabel Laack explores the religion and art of writing of the pre-Hispanic Aztecs of Mexico. Inspired by postcolonial approaches, she reveals Eurocentric biases in academic representations of Aztec cosmovision, ontology, epistemology, ritual, aesthetics, and the writing system to provide a powerful interpretation of the Nahua sense of reality. Laack transcends the concept of "sacred scripture" traditionally employed in religions studies in order to reconstruct the Indigenous semiotic theory and to reveal how Aztec pictography can express complex aspects of embodied meaning. Her study offers an innovative approach to nonphonographic semiotic systems, as created in many world cultures, and expands our understanding of human recorded visual communication. This book will be essential reading for scholars and readers interested in the history of religions, Mesoamerican studies, and the ancient civilizations of the Americas. "This excellent book, written with intellectual courage and critical self-awareness, is a brilliant, multilayered thought experiment into the images and stories that made up the Nahua sense of reality as woven into their sensational ritual performances and colorful symbolic writing system." - David Carrasco, Harvard University

Guide to the Study of Ancient Magic (Paperback): David Frankfurter Guide to the Study of Ancient Magic (Paperback)
David Frankfurter
R3,022 Discovery Miles 30 220 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

In the midst of academic debates about the utility of the term "magic" and the cultural meaning of ancient words like mageia or khesheph, this Guide to the Study of Ancient Magic seeks to advance the discussion by separating out three topics essential to the very idea of magic. The three major sections of this volume address (1) indigenous terminologies for ambiguous or illicit ritual in antiquity; (2) the ancient texts, manuals, and artifacts commonly designated "magical" or used to represent ancient magic; and (3) a series of contexts, from the written word to materiality itself, to which the term "magic" might usefully pertain. The individual essays in this volume cover most of Mediterranean and Near Eastern antiquity, with essays by both established and emergent scholars of ancient religions. In a burgeoning field of "magic studies" trying both to preserve and to justify critically the category itself, this volume brings new clarity and provocative insights. This will be an indispensable resource to all interested in magic in the Bible and the Ancient Near East, ancient Greece and Rome, Early Christianity and Judaism, Egypt through the Christian period, and also comparative and critical theory. Contributors are: Magali Bailliot, Gideon Bohak, Veronique Dasen, Albert de Jong, Jacco Dieleman, Esther Eidinow, David Frankfurter, Fritz Graf, Yuval Harari, Naomi Janowitz, Sarah Iles Johnston, Roy D. Kotansky, Arpad M. Nagy, Daniel Schwemer, Joseph E. Sanzo, Jacques van der Vliet, Andrew Wilburn.

Mithraism Deliverance and Deprogramming (Paperback): Kay Elise Tolman Mithraism Deliverance and Deprogramming (Paperback)
Kay Elise Tolman
R363 Discovery Miles 3 630 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Ugaritic Texts - Ba'al Cycle (Paperback): Scriptural Research Institute Ugaritic Texts - Ba'al Cycle (Paperback)
Scriptural Research Institute
R380 Discovery Miles 3 800 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Leaves From an Egyptian Note-book (Hardcover): Isaac Taylor Leaves From an Egyptian Note-book (Hardcover)
Isaac Taylor
R799 Discovery Miles 7 990 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Anunnaki BIble - The Cuneiform Scriptures (New Standard Zuist Edition - Pocket Version) (Paperback, Pocket ed.): Joshua Free Anunnaki BIble - The Cuneiform Scriptures (New Standard Zuist Edition - Pocket Version) (Paperback, Pocket ed.)
Joshua Free
R456 Discovery Miles 4 560 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The New Pagan Handbook - Revised 2017 Edition (Paperback): Pat Regan The New Pagan Handbook - Revised 2017 Edition (Paperback)
Pat Regan
R410 Discovery Miles 4 100 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Orishas Of The Yoruba An Adult Coloring Book - The Yoruba Religion Orisas Black African Gods And Goddesses (Paperback):... The Orishas Of The Yoruba An Adult Coloring Book - The Yoruba Religion Orisas Black African Gods And Goddesses (Paperback)
Akin Oyetola, Sandra McDyess
R252 Discovery Miles 2 520 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
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