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Book Catalogue of the Greek Papyri in the John Rylands Library  Manchester  Documents of the Ptolemaic  Roman  and Byzantine periods  no  552 717  edited by C  H  Roberts and E  G  Turner

Download or read book Catalogue of the Greek Papyri in the John Rylands Library Manchester Documents of the Ptolemaic Roman and Byzantine periods no 552 717 edited by C H Roberts and E G Turner written by John Rylands Library and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Tenants in the Vineyard

Download or read book The Tenants in the Vineyard written by John S. Kloppenborg and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2006 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John S. Kloppenborg gives a detailed analysis of one of the most difficult of Jesus' parables, the parable of the Tenants (Mark 12:1-12; Gospel of Thomas 65). He examines the ways in which Christians have typically read and mis-read the parable, and places the parable firmly in the context of the practices of ancient viticulture. The author models a new approach to the interpretation of the parables of Jesus. First, he critically engages the history of interpretation of the text, inquiring into the ideological interests that the parable has engaged during the history of its use in Christian churches and in political discourse. Second, he reconstructs the social world in which the parable was first told, in particular the economic, social, and legal aspects of ancient viticulture. He demonstrates that the parable of the Tenants has mostly been interpreted from the standpoint of those who wield social and political power, a strange irony considering the social status of the Jesus of history and the literary uses of the parable. All of the features common to the parable as it is told by Mark and the Gospel of Thomas make it a perfectly realistic story. It is only Mark's editing of the story that takes it beyond the realistic idiom characteristic of Jesus' other parables. The book concludes with a dossier of 58 papyrus documents relating to various aspects of viticulture and agrarian conflict. It was awarded the 2007 Francis W. Beare Book Award by the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies.

Book Bulletin of the John Rylands Library

Download or read book Bulletin of the John Rylands Library written by John Rylands Library and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Journal of Roman Studies

Download or read book The Journal of Roman Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes section "Notices of recent publications".

Book Light from Ancient Letters

Download or read book Light from Ancient Letters written by John Lee White and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishing. This book was released on 1986 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this collection of ancient Greek letters--written on papyrus and discovered in Egypt--John L. White provides a "comparative body of texts for studying the style of early Christian letters in the New Testament and the early church fathers." He seeks, as well, to contribute to an understanding of socio-political and economic factors within Greco-Roman Egypt and to illuminate broad environmental factors that help in understanding both Judaism and Christianity in the Greco-Roman period.

Book The British National Bibliography

Download or read book The British National Bibliography written by Arthur James Wells and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 1064 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Papyrus Editions Held in Australian Libraries

Download or read book Papyrus Editions Held in Australian Libraries written by S. R. Pickering and published by School of History Philosophy and Politics Macquarie University. This book was released on 1974 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Roman Syria and the Near East

Download or read book Roman Syria and the Near East written by Kevin Butcher and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2003 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents

Book Sepphoris II

    Book Details:
  • Author : Eric C. Lapp
  • Publisher : Penn State Press
  • Release : 2016-02-01
  • ISBN : 1575064057
  • Pages : 281 pages

Download or read book Sepphoris II written by Eric C. Lapp and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2016-02-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sepphoris was an important Galilean site from Hellenistic to early Islamic times. This multicultural city is described by Flavius Josephus as the “ornament of all Galilee,” and Rabbi Judah the Prince (ha-Nasi) codified the Mishnah there around 200 CE. The Duke University excavations of the 1980s and 1990s uncovered a large corpus of clay oil lamps in the domestic area of the western summit, and this volume presents these vessels. Richly illustrated with photos and drawings, it describes the various shape-types and includes a detailed catalog of 219 lamps. The volume also explores the origins of the Sepphoris lamps and establishes patterns of their trade, transport, and sale in the lower city’s marketplace. A unique contribution is the use of a combined petrographic and direct current plasma-optical emission spectrometric (dcp-oes) analysis of selected lamp fabrics from sites in Israel and Jordan. This process provided valuable information, indicating that lamps found in Sepphoris came from Judea, the Decapolis, and even Greece, suggesting an urban community fully engaged with other regional centers. Lamp decorations also provide information about the cosmopolitan culture of Sepphoris in antiquity. Discus lamps with erotic scenes and mythological characters suggest Greco-Roman influences, and menorahs portrayed on lamps indicate a vibrant Jewish identity.

Book Annual Report     Presented by the Council to the Court of Governors on the

Download or read book Annual Report Presented by the Council to the Court of Governors on the written by National Library of Wales and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Journal of Hellenic Studies

Download or read book The Journal of Hellenic Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Roads in the Deserts of Roman Egypt

Download or read book Roads in the Deserts of Roman Egypt written by Maciej Paprocki and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2019-07-19 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Egypt under the Romans (30 BCE–3rd century CE) was a period when local deserts experienced an unprecedented flurry of activity. In the Eastern Desert, a marked increase in desert traffic came from imperial prospecting/quarrying activities and caravans transporting wares to and from the Red Sea ports. In the Western Desert, resilient camels slowly became primary beasts of burden in desert travel, enabling caravaneers to lengthen daily marching distances across previously inhospitable dunes. Desert road archaeology has used satellite imaging, landscape studies and network analysis to plot desert trail networks with greater accuracy; however, it is often difficult to date roadside installations and thus assess how these networks evolved in scope and density in reaction to climatic, social and technological change. Roads in the Deserts of Roman Egypt examines evidence for desert roads in Roman Egypt and assesses Roman influence on the road density in two select desert areas: the central and southern section of the Eastern Desert and the central Marmarican Plateau and discusses geographical and social factors influencing road use in the period, demonstrating that Roman overseers of these lands adapted remarkably well to local desert conditions, improving roads and developing the trail network. Crucially, the author reconceptualises desert trails as linear corridor structures that follow expedient routes in the desert landscape, passing through at least two functional nodes attracting human traffic, be those water sources, farmlands, mines/quarries, trade hubs, military installations or actual settlements. The ‘route of least resistance’ across the desert varied from period to period according to the available road infrastructure and beasts of burden employed. Roman administration in Egypt not only increased the density of local desert ‘node’ networks, but also facilitated internodal connections with camel caravans and transformed the Sahara by establishing new, or embellishing existing, nodes, effectively funnelling desert traffic into discernible corridors.Significantly, not all desert areas of Egypt are equally suited for anthropogenic development, but almost all have been optimised in one way or another, with road installations built for added comfort and safety of travellers. Accordingly, the study of how Romans successfully adapted to desert travel is of wider significance to the study of deserts and ongoing expansion due to global warming.

Book The Fourth Gospel

    Book Details:
  • Author : Victor Salmon
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1976
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 128 pages

Download or read book The Fourth Gospel written by Victor Salmon and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book National Union Catalog

Download or read book National Union Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes entries for maps and atlases.