Judah Nadich Rabbi Akiba and His Contemporaries relates the stories told by and about the great rabbis and scholars of the talmudic period, and includes their ethical and moral teachings,...

Theophile James Meek First published January 1, 1936

Marcel Detienne Rich with implications for the history of sexuality, gender issues, and patterns of Hellenic literary imagining, Marcel Detienne's landmark book recasts long-standing ideas about the fertility myth of...

Jasper Ridley For many centuries, since their founding as a guild comprising the master builders of the great castles and cathedrals of the Middle Ages, the freemasons have enjoyed a...

Geza Vermes From the world's leading Dead Sea Scrolls scholar, Geza Vermes' The Story of the The Miraculous Discovery and True Significance of the Dead Sea Scrolls is an ideal...

Patricia Cox Miller Dream interpretation was a prominent feature of the intellectual and imaginative world of late antiquity, for martyrs and magicians, philosophers and theologians, polytheists and monotheists alike. Finding...

Michel Chauveau The book provides an easily digestible introduction to Cleopatra's world... A fascinating introduction to an era when the political and military face of the Mediterranean world was changing...

Edited by Lawrence Fine This collection of original materials provides a sweeping view of medieval and early modern Jewish ritual and religious practice. Including such diverse texts as ritual manuals,...

William G Dever The Lives of Ordinary People tells the untold story of how the vast majority of Israelites ― the people who are usually overlooked in "typical" histories of...

William G Dever For centuries the Hebrew Bible has been the fountainhead of the Judeo- Christian tradition. Today, however, the entire biblical tradition, including its historical veracity, is being challenged....

Erik Hornung "A concise and detailed summary... This is a recommended book for all searching for details on important Egyptian texts."―Francesca Jourdan, quik.com Ancient Egyptians held a rich and complex...

Ralph S Hattox Drawing on the accounts of early European travelers, original Arabic sources on jurisprudence and etiquette, and treatises on coffee from the period, the author recounts the colorful...