Children and Family in Late Antiquity

• Paperback | Engels | Interdisciplinary Studies in Ancient Culture and Religion | nr. 15
• This volume continues the series of five previous Roman Family publications, and puts special focus on social history and living conditions in the fam... Lees meer

The Parting of the Ways

S Spence

• Paperback | Engels | Interdisciplinary Studies in Ancient Culture and Religion | nr. 5
• This book seeks to inject into the general discussion of the "Parting of the Ways" of Judaism and Christianity the social realities of the separation ... Lees meer

In the Crucible of Empire

• Paperback | Engels | Interdisciplinary Studies in Ancient Culture and Religion | nr. 21
• This volume examines the dynamic concept and changing reality of Roman citizenship from the perspective of the provinces in Rome's vast, multi-ethnic ... Lees meer

Production and Prosperity in the Theodosian Period

• Paperback | Engels | Interdisciplinary Studies in Ancient Culture and Religion | nr. 14
• Despite the large increase in material evidence datable to the Theodosian period (379-455 C.E.), textual sources still dominate our view of the period... Lees meer

Missing Mothers

• Paperback | Engels | Interdisciplinary Studies in Ancient Culture and Religion | nr. 22
• The last forty years of research have cast new light on the lives of ancient Mediterranean women in the penumbra of our patriarchal sources, including... Lees meer

City Boundaries and Urban Development in Roman Italy

S Stevens

• Paperback | Engels | Interdisciplinary Studies in Ancient Culture and Religion | nr. 16
• In Roman cities, boundaries were an important way of defining spaces. The significance of such boundaries was mediated by specific cultural rules. Bes... Lees meer

Violence in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds

• Paperback | Engels | Interdisciplinary Studies in Ancient Culture and Religion | nr. 19
• Being an integral element of how humans interact with one another, violence, however disruptive, often also manifests itself as an ordering force. In ... Lees meer

The Necropolis of Jerusalem in the Second Temple Period

B Zissu

• Paperback | Nederlands | Interdisciplinary Studies in Ancient Culture and Religion | nr. 8
• Burials from the Second Temple Period, that is, the Late Hellenistic (Hasmonean) and the Early Roman (Herodian) Periods, were revealed in all the area... Lees meer

Looking for Mithra in Malta

C Sagona

• Paperback | Engels | Interdisciplinary Studies in Ancient Culture and Religion | nr. 10
• Many aspects of the mystery cult of Mithra remain enigmatic. It was a belief system that touched the hearts and minds of all manner of people, rich an... Lees meer

Aelia Capitolina in Context

M Ben Zeev Hofman

• Paperback | Engels | Interdisciplinary Studies in Ancient Culture and Religion | nr. 24
• This book focuses upon the colony Aelia Capitolina founded by Hadrian on the ruins of Jerusalem, within the general context of his politics of Empire ... Lees meer

Diaspora Judaism in Turmoil, 116/117 CE: Ancient Sources and Modern In

Ben Ze'ev M.

• Hardcover | Nederlands | Interdisciplinary Studies in Ancient Culture and Religion | nr. 6
• Between the two wars fought in Judaea against the Roman government - the 'Great War' and that of Bar Kochba - the uprisings of Diaspora Jews toward th... Lees meer

The Sculptural Environment of the Roman Near East

Y.Z. Eliav, E.A. Friedland

• Paperback | Engels | Interdisciplinary Studies in Ancient Culture and Religion | nr. 9
• Public sculptures were the "mass media" of the Roman world. They populated urban centers throughout the empire, serving as a "plastic language" that c... Lees meer

Letters in the Dust

Rutgers Leonard V.

• Paperback | Engels | Interdisciplinary Studies in Ancient Culture and Religion | nr. 23
• While there is plenty of recent scholarship on the history of the Jewish communities of medieval Europe, it is not always easy to access the ample ins... Lees meer

Jews and Christians in Antiquity

• Paperback | Engels | Interdisciplinary Studies in Ancient Culture and Religion | nr. 18
• This volume brings together a selection of papers presented at two conferences on Jewish-Christian interaction in Antiquity held in Leuven and Aix-en-... Lees meer

Debating Qumran

J Magness

• Paperback | Engels | Interdisciplinary Studies in Ancient Culture and Religion | nr. 4
• Qumran has been the subject of recent controversy, with a number of scholars challenging Roland de Vaux's interpretation of the site as a sectarian se... Lees meer

Jewish Culture and Society Under the Christian Roman Empire

Kalmin R.//Schwartz S.

• Paperback | Engels | Interdisciplinary Studies in Ancient Culture and Religion | nr. 3
• This book investigates the complexity, diversity, uniqueness and enduring significance of Jewish life in the Christian Roman Empire, from 312 to 634 C... Lees meer

The Birdcage of the Muses

R Strootman

• Paperback | Engels | Interdisciplinary Studies in Ancient Culture and Religion | nr. 17
• In the third century BCE, the Ptolemaic imperial court at Alexandria was the unchallenged center of culture and learning in the Hellenistic world. Bac... Lees meer