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Book The Best Books  a Readers Guide to the Choice of the Best Available Books  about 50 000

Download or read book The Best Books a Readers Guide to the Choice of the Best Available Books about 50 000 written by William Swan Sonnenschein and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Reader s Guide to the Choice of the Best Available Books  about 50 000  in Every Department of Science  Art   Literature  with the Dates of the First   Last Editions    the Price  Size   Publisher s Name of Each Book

Download or read book A Reader s Guide to the Choice of the Best Available Books about 50 000 in Every Department of Science Art Literature with the Dates of the First Last Editions the Price Size Publisher s Name of Each Book written by William Swan Sonnenschein and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Prayer  Magic  and the Stars in the Ancient and Late Antique World

Download or read book Prayer Magic and the Stars in the Ancient and Late Antique World written by Scott Noegel and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the religious systems of ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Mediterranean, gods and demigods were neither abstract nor distant, but communicated with mankind through signs and active intervention. Men and women were thus eager to interpret, appeal to, and even control the gods and their agents. In Prayer, Magic, and the Stars in the Ancient and Late Antique World, a distinguished array of scholars explores the many ways in which people in the ancient world sought to gain access to--or, in some cases, to bind or escape from--the divine powers of heaven and earth. Grounded in a variety of disciplines, including Assyriology, Classics, and early Islamic history, the fifteen essays in this volume cover a broad geographic area: Greece, Egypt, Syria-Palestine, Mesopotamia, and Persia. Topics include celestial divination in early Mesopotamia, the civic festivals of classical Athens, and Christian magical papyri from Coptic Egypt. Moving forward to Late Antiquity, we see how Judaism, Christianity, and Islam each incorporated many aspects of ancient Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman religion into their own prayers, rituals, and conceptions. Even if they no longer conceived of the sun, moon, and the stars as eternal or divine, Christians, Jews, and Muslims often continued to study the movements of the heavens as a map on which divine power could be read. The reader already familiar with studies of ancient religion will find in Prayer, Magic, and the Stars both old friends and new faces. Contributors include Gideon Bohak, Nicola Denzey, Jacco Dieleman, Radcliffe Edmonds, Marvin Meyer, Michael G. Morony, Ian Moyer, Francesca Rochberg, Jonathan Z. Smith, Mark S. Smith, Peter Struck, Michael Swartz, and Kasia Szpakowska. Published as part of Penn State's Magic in History series, Prayer, Magic, and the Stars appears at a time of renewed interest in divination and occult practices in the ancient world. It will interest a wide audience in the field of comparative religion as well as students of the ancient world and late antiquity.

Book Hebrew Scholarship and the Medieval World

Download or read book Hebrew Scholarship and the Medieval World written by Nicholas de Lange and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-03-26 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book surveys what has been achieved in recent research on medieval Hebrew language and texts.

Book Saints and Scholars

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  • Author : Hugh Magennis
  • Publisher : DS Brewer
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 184384303X
  • Pages : 290 pages

Download or read book Saints and Scholars written by Hugh Magennis and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2012 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wide-ranging survey of current research in Anglo-Saxon studies - from literature and material culture to religion and politics. Anglo-Saxon literature and culture, and their subsequent appropriations, unite the essays collected here. They offer fresh and exciting perspectives on a variety of issues, from gender to religion and the afterlives of Old Englishtexts, from reconsiderations of neglected works to reflections on the place of Anglo-Saxon in the classroom. As is appropriate, they draw especially on Hugh Magennis' own interests in hagiography and issues of community and reception. Taken together, they provide a "state of the discipline" account of the present, and future, of Anglo-Saxon studies. The volume also includes contributions from the leading Irish poets Ciaran Carson and Medbh McGuckian. Dr Stuart McWilliams is a Newby Trust Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh. Contributors: Ciaran Carson, Marilina Cesario, Mary Clayton, Ivan Herbison, Joyce Hill, Malcolm Godden, Chris Jones, Christina Lee, Medbh McGuckian, Stuart McWilliams, Juliet Mullins, Elisabeth Okasha, Jane Roberts, Donald Scragg, Mary Swan, John Thompson, Elaine Treharne, Robert Upchurch, Gordon Whatley, Jonathan Wilcox

Book The Mediterranean Medina

Download or read book The Mediterranean Medina written by Aa.Vv. and published by Gangemi Editore spa. This book was released on 2011-11-10T00:00:00+01:00 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects the proceedings of the International Seminar The Mediterranean Medina, that took place in the School of Architecture at Pescara from 17th to 19th of June 2004.

Book A Catalogue of Books for the Library  Comprising a Selection of the Best Editions of Standard Works by Ancient and Modern Authors

Download or read book A Catalogue of Books for the Library Comprising a Selection of the Best Editions of Standard Works by Ancient and Modern Authors written by Sotheran, Henry and Co and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bookseller and the Stationery Trades  Journal

Download or read book Bookseller and the Stationery Trades Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 1576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Medieval Jewish Civilization

Download or read book Medieval Jewish Civilization written by Norman Roth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first encyclopedic work to focus exclusively on medieval Jewish civilization, from the fall of the Roman Empire to about 1492. The more than 150 alphabetically organized entries, written by scholars from around the world, include biographies, countries, events, social history, and religious concepts. The coverage is international, presenting people, culture, and events from various countries in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Medieval Jewish Civilization: An Encyclopedia website.

Book Routledge Revivals  Medieval Jewish Civilization  2003

Download or read book Routledge Revivals Medieval Jewish Civilization 2003 written by Norman Roth and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2003, this is the first encyclopedic work to focus exclusively on medieval Jewish civilization, from the fall of the Roman Empire to about 1492. Based on the research of an international, multidisciplinary team of specialist contributors, the more than 150 alphabetically organized entries, written by scholars from around the world, include biographies, countries, events, social history, and religious concepts. The coverage is international, presenting people, culture, and events from various countries in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.

Book Choice

Download or read book Choice written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Athenaeum

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  • Author :
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  • Release : 1889
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 868 pages

Download or read book The Athenaeum written by and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Best Books

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  • Author : William Swan Sonnenschein
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1895
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 880 pages

Download or read book The Best Books written by William Swan Sonnenschein and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Practice of Mental Prayer Second Treatise Extraordinary Prayer   Scholar s Choice Edition

Download or read book Practice of Mental Prayer Second Treatise Extraordinary Prayer Scholar s Choice Edition written by Rene Maumigny and published by Scholar's Choice. This book was released on 2015-02-19 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book An Introduction to Akkadian Literature

Download or read book An Introduction to Akkadian Literature written by Alan Lenzi and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2020-01-10 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book initiates the reader into the study of Akkadian literature from ancient Babylonia and Assyria. With this one relatively short volume, the novice reader will develop the literary competence necessary to read and interpret Akkadian texts in translation and will gain a broad familiarity with the major genres and compositions in the language. The first part of the book presents introductory discussions of major critical issues, organized under four key rubrics: tablets, scribes, compositions, and audiences. Here, the reader will find descriptions of the tablets used as writing material; the training scribes received and the institutional contexts in which they worked; the general characteristics of Akkadian compositions, with an emphasis on poetic and literary features; and the various audiences or users of Akkadian texts. The second part surveys the corpus of Akkadian literature defined inclusively, canvasing a wide spectrum of compositions. Legal codes, historical inscriptions, divinatory compendia, and religious texts have a place in the survey alongside narrative poems, such as the Epic of Gilgamesh, Enuma elish, and Babylonian Theodicy. Extensive footnotes and a generous bibliography guide readers who wish to continue their study. Essential for students of Assyriology, An Introduction to Akkadian Literature will also prove useful to biblical scholars, classicists, Egyptologists, ancient historians, and literary comparativists.

Book The Spectator

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  • Release : 1849
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1234 pages

Download or read book The Spectator written by and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 1234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.