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Isis Pelagia: Images, Names and Cults of a Goddess of the Seas
Language: en
Pages: 402
Authors: Laurent Bricault
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-11-11 - Publisher: BRILL

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In Isis Pelagia, Laurent Bricault offers a new interpretation of many of the various sources on Isis as a goddess of the seas in the Graeco-Roman world.
Laws of Ritual Purity
Language: en
Pages: 450
Authors: Mahnaz Moazami
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-11-16 - Publisher: BRILL

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In Laws of Ritual Purity: Zand ī Fragard ī Jud-Dēw-Dād (A Commentary on the Chapters of the Widēwdād), the redactors present a comprehensive attempt to de
Worlds Full of Signs
Language: en
Pages: 260
Authors: Kim Beerden
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-08-08 - Publisher: BRILL

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Worlds Full of Signs compares Greek divination to divinatory practices in Neo-Assyrian Mesopotamia and Republican Rome. It argues that the character of Greek di
The Religious Life of Nabataea
Language: en
Pages: 332
Authors: Peter Alpass
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-06-13 - Publisher: BRILL

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Flourishing in the centuries around the birth of Christ, the Nabataean kingdom covered a large swathe of the north-western Arabian Peninsula and was shaped by c
Corinth in Context
Language: en
Pages: 529
Authors: Steve Friesen
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-06-14 - Publisher: BRILL

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In this book, archaeologists, classicists, and specialists in Christian origins examine the social and religious life of ancient Corinth. The interdisciplinary