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 Ancient Israel's History: An Introduction to Issues and Sources 
 Author: Bill T. Arnold (Editor), Richard S. Hess (Editor) Ancient Israel's History: An Introduction to Issues and Sources Baker Academic 2014 Format: PDF Size: 14.5 Mb Language: English The history of Israel is a much-debated topic in Old Testament studies. On one side are minimalists who find little of historical value in the Hebrew Bible. On the other side are those who assume the biblical text is a precise historical record. Many serious students of the Bible find themselves between these two positions and would benefit from a careful exploration of issues in Israelite history. This substantive history of Israel textbook values the Bible's historical contribution without overlooking critical issues and challenges. Featuring the latest scholarship, the book introduces students to the current state of research on issues relevant to the study of ancient Israel. The editors and contributors, all top biblical scholars and historians, discuss historical evidence in a readable manner, using both canonical and chronological lenses to explore Israelite history. Illustrative items, such as maps and images, visually support the book's content. Tables and sidebars are also included.
Terminal Classic in the Maya Lowlands: Collapse, Transition, and Transformation
 Author: Arthur A. Demarest Terminal Classic in the Maya Lowlands: Collapse, Transition, and Transformation University Press of Colorado ISBN: 0870817396 2005 Format: PDF Size: 41,6 МБ Language: English Pages: 676 This book revisits one of the great problems in Mayan archaeology - the apparent collapse of Classic Maya civilisation from roughly AD 830-950. During this period the Maya abandoned their power centres in the southern lowlands and rather abruptly ceased the distinctive cultural practices that marked their apogee in the Classic period. Archaeological fieldwork during the past three decades, however, has uncovered enormous regional variability in the ways the Maya experienced the shift from Classic to Post-classic society, revealing a period of cultural change more complex than acknowledged by traditional models. Featuring an impressive roster of scholars, the book presents the most recent data and interpretations pertaining to this perplexing period of cultural transformation in the Maya lowlands. Although the research reveals clear interregional patterns, the contributors resist a single overarching explanation. Rather, this volume's diverse and nuanced interpretations provide a new, more properly grounded beginning for continued debate on the nature of lowland "Terminal Classic Maya Civilisation".
Late Antiquity, A.D. 267-700
 Late Antiquity, A.D. 267-700 Author: Alison Frantz American School of Classical Studies at Athens The Athenian Agora XXIV 1988 ISBN: 0876612249 Pages: 249 Language: English Format: PDF Size: 51 MB This book collects for the first time the archaeological and historical evidence for the area of the Athenian Agora in Late Antiquity, a period which spans the last flourishing of the great philosophical schools, the defeat of classical paganism by Christianity, and the collapse of the late Roman Empire. Although the primary focus of this volume is the material uncovered by the Agora excavations, the study also takes into account past and current discoveries elsewhere in the city. The author draws on archaeological, epigraphical, and literary evidence to present a comprehensive account of the history and topography of the city in the years before A.D. 700. The course of Athenian construction and destruction is traced from the mid-3rd century, through the Herulian invasion, to the period of recovery in the third and fourth centuries (ending with the invasion of the Visigoth, Alaric, in A.D. 396).
Iran in the Ancient East
 Author: Herzfeld Ernst E Iran in the Ancient Eas Oxford university press 1941 Format: PDF Size: 22 Mb Language: English Archeological Studies Presented in the Lowell Lectures at Boston. The prehistoric period. The dawn of history. The achaemenian period. The arsacidan and sasanian periods.
Chronological Systems of Byzantine Egypt Second Edition
 Author: Roger S. Bagnall, R. S. Bagnall, K. a. Worp Chronological Systems of Byzantine Egypt Second Edition Brill Academic Pub ISBN: 9004136541 2003 Format: PDF Size: 59,8 МБ Language: English Pages: 350 Egypt is the richest source of primary documents for the economy, society and everyday life of the late antique Mediterranean world. Its thousands of papyri provide insight into aspects and topics ignored by ancient authors. This handbook is an indispensable tool in navigating these documents, which use a host of complex systems to date legal transactions. Extensive tables and lists help the reader understand the use of consulates, the indiction cycle, eras, and dates by imperial reigns. Other formal aspects of the documents, including Christian invocations and sworn oaths, are also fully covered.
The Venetians: A New History: From Marco Polo to Casanova
 Author: Paul Strathern The Venetians: A New History: From Marco Polo to Casanova Pegasus 2013 Format: pdf/epub/mobi Size: 10.5 Mb Language: English A colorful new history of Venice that illuminates the character of the great city-state by shining a light on some of the most celebrated personalities of European history—Petrarch, Marco Polo, Galileo, Titian, Vivaldi, and Casanova. The Republic of Venice was the first great economic, cultural, and naval power of the modern Western world. After winning the struggle for ascendency in the late 13th century, the Republic enjoyed centuries of unprecedented glory and built a trading empire which at its apogee reached as far afield as China, Syria and West Africa. This golden period only drew to an end with the Republic’s eventual surrender to Napoleon. The Venetians illuminates the character of the Republic during these illustrious years by shining a light on some of the most celebrated personalities of European history—Petrarch, Marco Polo, Galileo, Titian, Vivaldi, Casanova. Frequently, though, these emblems of the city found themselves at odds with the Venetian authorities who prized stability above all else, and were notoriously suspicious of any "cult of personality." Was this very tension perhaps the engine for the Republic’s unprecedented rise? Rich with biographies of some of the most exalted characters who have ever lived, The Venetians is a refreshing and authoritative new look at the history of the most evocative of city states.
Empire of Ancient Rome
 Author: Michael Burgan Empire of Ancient Rome Great Empires of the Past 2005 Pages:128 Format: PDF Language: English Size: 13,9mb The influence of the Roman Empire has been widespread and profound, perhaps more so than any other empire or civilization. This volume begins with a brief summary of the Roman Empire and provides an account of the world and this geographic area in the years leading up to the empire.
Contested Monarchy: Integrating the Roman Empire in the Fourth Century AD
 Author: Johannes Wienand (Editor) Contested Monarchy: Integrating the Roman Empire in the Fourth Century AD (Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity) Oxford University Press 2014 Format: PDF Size: 11.4 Mb Language: English Contested Monarchy reappraises the wide-ranging and lasting transformation of the Roman monarchy between the Principate and Late Antiquity. The book takes as its focus the century from Diocletian to Theodosius I (284-395), a period during which the stability of monarchical rule depended heavily on the emperor's mobility, on collegial or dynastic rule, and on the military resolution of internal political crises. At the same time, profound religious changes modified the premises of political interaction and symbolic communication between the emperor and his subjects, and administrative and military readjustments changed the institutional foundations of the Roman monarchy. This volume concentrates on the measures taken by emperors of this period to cope with the changing framework of their rule. The collection examines monarchy along three distinct yet intertwined fields: Administering the Empire, Performing the Monarchy, and Balancing Religious Change. Each field possesses its own historiography and methodology, and accordingly has usually been treated separately. This volume's multifaceted approach builds on recent scholarship and trends to examine imperial rule in a more integrated fashion. With new work from a wide range of international scholars, Contested Monarchy offers a fresh survey of the role of the Roman monarchy in a period of significant and enduring change.
Lapps and Labyrinths: Saami Prehistory, Colonization, and Cultural Resilience
 Author: Noel D. Broadbent Lapps and Labyrinths: Saami Prehistory, Colonization, and Cultural Resilience Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press 2010 Format: epub Size: 21.4 Mb Language: English Professor Noel D. Broadbent is one of Sweden's foremost experts on north Swedish archaeology and literally wrote the book on the prehistory of the Skellefteå region on the North Bothnian coast. This knowledge is now brought to bear on the issue of Saami origins. The focus is on the successful adaptive strategies of Saami societies over thousands of years - a testimony to Saami resiliency, of relevance to the survival of indigenous societies worldwide today.
In God's Path: The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire
 Author: Robert G. Hoyland In God's Path: The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire (Ancient Warfare and Civilization) Oxford University Press 2014 Format: PDF Size: 13.5 Mb Language: English In just over a hundred years--from the death of Muhammad in 632 to the beginning of the Abbasid Caliphate in 750--the followers of the Prophet swept across the whole of the Middle East, North Africa, and Spain. Their armies threatened states as far flung as the Franks in Western Europe and the Tang Empire in China. The conquered territory was larger than the Roman Empire at its greatest expansion, and it was claimed for the Arabs in roughly half the time. How this collection of Arabian tribes was able to engulf so many empires, states, and armies in such a short period has perplexed historians for centuries. Most accounts of the Arab invasions have been based almost solely on the early Muslim sources, which were composed centuries later to illustrate the divinely chosen status of the Arabs. Robert Hoyland's groundbreaking new history assimilates not only the rich biographical information of the early Muslim sources but also the many non-Arabic sources, contemporaneous or near-contemporaneous with the conquests. In God's Path begins with a broad picture of the Late Antique world prior to the Prophet's arrival, a world dominated by two superpowers: Byzantium and Sasanian Persia. In between these empires, emerged a distinct Arabian identity, which helped forge the inhabitants of western Arabia into a formidable fighting force. The Arabs are the principal actors in this drama yet, as Hoyland shows, the peoples along the edges of Byzantium and Persia--the Khazars, Bulgars, Avars, and Turks--all played critical roles in the remaking of the old world order. The new faith propagated by Muhammad and his successors made it possible for many of the conquered peoples to join the Arabs in creating the first Islamic Empire. Well-paced, comprehensive, and eminently readable, In God's Path presents a sweeping narrative of a transformational period in world history.
Amorium A Byzantine City in Anatolia - An Archaeological Guide
 Author: C S Lightfoot, Mucahide Lightfoot Amorium A Byzantine City in Anatolia - An Archaeological Guide Homer Kitabevi ISBN: 975829380X 2007 Format: PDF Size: 12,6 МБ Language: English Pages: 180 Although less well known than some Anatolian sites, it is Amorium's significance as a major settlement after the Roman period that makes it so important. The excavation programme's main aim has been to shed light on the Byzantine settlement that flourished here until the 11th century AD. This guidebook is an attempt to fill in some of the gaps in the archaeology, and to bring the city and its history back to life.
Rome and Persia in late Antiquity
 Author: Beate Dignas Cambridge University Press 2007 365 Format: pdf Size: 4 mb Language: english Relations between Romans and Persians in late antiquity were bound to be turbulent, to say the least. We are looking at those who conquered the possessions of the heirs of Alexander the Great versus those who claimed to be the heirs of the Achaemenid Empire, which was conquered by Alexander the Great. ‘Heritage’ and its claims often foreshadow war, in this case centuries of warfare that lasted throughout the existence of the relationship between the two powers, i.e. the third to the seventh century ad. On both sides war was accompanied by complex attempts to justify their respective goals, in both active and reactive ways. Rome’s claim for world domination was accompanied by a sense of mission and pride in Western civilisation; it was met by Eastern myths and oracles prophesying the downfall of the Western power.1 Our sources reflect strong Roman ambitions to become a guarantor of peace and order. Simultaneously, they reflect long-standing prejudices with regard to the Eastern power’s different customs, religious structures, languages and forms of government. As a consequence, a wide gap separated the two cultures and negative attitudes that stemmed from existing political, military and economic rivalries were constantly reinforced. In the company of most ancient – and often Western – observers, it is tempting to associate our theme with an ‘everlasting’ conflict between West and East, between a ‘civilised’ Roman world and a barbarian enemy, and hence to describe the struggle between the two super powers as a clash of fundamentally alien cultures.
Pompeii
 Pompeii (Unearthing Ancient Worlds) Author: Liz Sonneborn Twenty-First Century Books 2008 Pages: 84 Format: PDF Size: 13 Mb Language: English An ancient city unearthed... In the 1730s, Charles of Bourbon, king of the area around present-day Naples, Italy, learned that local peasants were finding marble and other ancient objects when they dug their wells. He sent army colonel Rocque Joachin Alcubierre and later Karl Jacob Weber to explore the area. Working in darkness with only torches to light their way, Alcubierre's and Weber's crews of workers tunneled through hardened mud. The crews found a marble statue on the very first day. Soon they discovered an ancient Roman theater filled with marble and bronze statues. Later, the crew moved south, where digging was above ground, and they began to uncover the ancient city of Pompeii. This once-vibrant Roman city had been completely buried in lava and ash when the volcano Mount Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79. By unearthing this ancient city, Weber spurred interested not only in artifacts, but in how the ancient people lived. By the early nineteenth century, Pompeii was a busy tourist attraction and the once-buried city lived again.
Colosseum: Rome's Arena of Death
 Author: Peter Connolly Colosseum: Rome's Arena of Death BBC Books 2003 Format: PDF Size: 39.8 Mb Language: English The Colosseum in Rome is one of the world's most amazing buildings. Built over 10 years during the reign of the Emperor Vespasiano in c. 72AD, at 160 feet high this immense oval stadium was home to the most violent and deadly spectator sports in history, and the making of many 'gladiator' heroes. Using state-of-the-art computer graphics, Colosseum brings the world of Ancient Rome to life and shows how and why this most extraordinary of human monuments was built. New research debunks the myths perpetuated in the film Gladiator and helps us understand the nature of these games - why the chariot races of Gladiator could not have happened within the Colosseum walls, for instance. Here for the first time, new evidence reveals exactly how the Colosseum was regularly flooded with water for the spectacle of deadly sea battles.
The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire Volume 2
 The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire Volume 2 Phillips, Sampson Author: Gibbon, Edward 1854 Pages: 593 Format: PDF Size: 63 mb Language: English Spanning thirteen centuries from the age of Trajan to the taking of Constantinople by the Turks, DECLINE & FALL is one of the greatest narratives in European Literature. David Womersley's masterly selection and bridging commentary enables the readerto acquire a general sense of the progress and argument of the whole work and displays the full variety of Gibbon's achievement.
Empire of Alexander the Great
 Author: Debra Skelton, Pamela Dell Empire of Alexander the Great Facts on File 2005 Format: pdf Language: English Size: 7,97 mb Empire of Alexander the Great looks at what made Alexander a brilliant military tactician and a charismatic leader. It also explores what the Eastern world learned through contact with Alexander and what Alexander brought the West from the Persian Empire. Connections in our own world to Alexander's empire include the legend of the Gordion Knot, pearls, the Egyptian metropolis of Alexandria, and the Septuagint (the first translation of the Torah from Hebrew).
Emperor Worship and Roman Religion
 Author: Ittai Gradel Emperor Worship and Roman Religion Clarendon Press 2002 ISBN: 0199275483 Language: English Pages: 428 Format: PDF Size: 4,07 МБ While Roman religion worshipped a number of gods, one kind in particular aroused the fury of early Christians and the wonder of scholars: the cult of Roman emperors alive or dead. Was the divinity of emperors a glue that held the Empire together? Were rulers such as Julius Caesar and Caligula simply mad to expect such worship of themselves? Or was it rather a phenomenon which has only been rendered incomprehensible by modern and monotheistic ideas of what religion is--or should be--all about? This book presents the first study of emperor worship among the Romans themselves, both in Rome and in its heartland Italy. It argues that emperor worship was indeed perfectly in keeping with Roman religious tradition, which has been generally misunderstood by a posterity imbued with radically different notions of the relationship between humans and the divine.
Solomon's Temple: Myth, Conflict, and Faith
 Author: Alan Balfour Solomon's Temple: Myth, Conflict, and Faith Wiley-Blackwell 2012 Format: EPUB Size: 22.7 Mb Language: English A highly original architectural history of Solomon’s Temple and Islam’s Dome of the Rock that doubles as a social and cultural history of the region - The most extensive study of the interrelated history of two monuments, Solomon’s Temple and The Dome of the Rock, drawing on an exhaustive review of all the visual and textual evidence - Relayed as a gripping narrative, allowing readers to re-enter and experience the emotions and the visceral reality of the major events in its history - Integrates illustration with the text to offer a highly detailed and accurate portrait of the major structures and figures involved in the history of the temple - Opens up a fascinating line of questioning into the conventional interpretation of events, particularly Christ’s actions in the Temple - Reproduces rarely seen detailed drawings of the subterranean passages beneath Temple Mount as part of the British survey in the 19th century
The Secret History of the Sword: Adventures in Ancient Martial Arts
 : The Secret History of the Sword: Adventures in Ancient Martial Arts Author : J.Christopher Amberger Multi-Media Books : 1999 ISBN: 1892515040 Pages: 281 Format : PDF Size : 33,8 MB Language : English This book is an entertaining read and is certainly well researched in parts. Amberger avoids some of the problem that Richard Cohen encountered in "By the sword" but by and large they both extend their considerable expertise just a bit too broadly to support their arguments. His personal experience in the German duelling halls are exciting to read. He wisely avoids much discussion concerning metalurgy and the actual production of blades and doesn't stray far from the European/American tradition which he knows well.
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