
By Ralph L. ROYS
By Ralph L. ROYS
By Augusta McMahon
The excavation of sector WF within the eighteenth and 19th seasons at Nippur (1988/89, 1990) used to be aimed particularly at delineating the transition among the Early Dynastic and Akkadian classes, and this objective has been realised. Augusta McMahon took in this job via seasons, operating tirelessly. Stratigraphic publicity of ground after flooring of artefacts was once slowed enormously through a fancy stack of burials that took up nearly half the distance within the pit. The pit used to be taken down till it reached Early Dynastic IIIa, and therefore had the cloth to evaluate the passage from Early Dynastic to Akkadian in artifactual phrases.
By Norman Yoffee
I needed to purchase this for a category, and we definitely used it, yet I by no means used it for reference fabric for papers--too dense--unfriendly writing type.
By Richard John Neuhaus
Christians are by way of their nature a humans misplaced. Their actual house is with God; in civic lifestyles, they're alien electorate “in yet now not of the world.” In American Babylon, eminent theologian Richard John Neuhaus examines the actual fact of that ambiguity for Catholics in the USA today.Neuhaus addresses the basic quandaries of Catholic life—assessing how Catholics can continue their heads above water within the sea of immorality that confronts them on the earth, how they are often patriotic although their real kingdom isn't really during this global, and the way they may reconcile their tasks as voters with their dedication to God. Deeply discovered, often combative, and constantly eloquent, American Babylon is Neuhaus’s magnum opus—and may be crucial analyzing for all Christians.
By Horst Klengel
Heritage of historical Syria, cuneiform, Assyriology, old close to East
By Bowes, K. (ed.), Kulikowski, M. (ed.)
This selection of essays on past due Roman Hispania describes the relationships among the peninsula and the remainder of the past due vintage international. Its participants archaeologists, historians, and historians of artwork tackle either the ancient proof and the complicated historiography of overdue old Hispania.
By Hugh Kennedy
An illustrated exam of the position of nomads within the background of struggle, which discusses the guns, strategies, and battles of the Huns, Arabs, Turks, Mongols, and Vikings. comprises maps, biographies, and a chronology.
By Shalom E. Holtz
New translations of 50 transliterated texts for learn and school room use
This number of sixth-century B.C.E. Mesopotamian texts offers a close-up, usually dramatic, view of historical court encounters laying off mild on Neo-Babylonian criminal tradition and lifestyle. as well as the criminal texts, Holtz presents an advent to Neo-Babylonian social historical past, archival files, and felony fabrics. this can be an important source for students attracted to the heritage of law.
By Stewart Ross
Witness a story of contention and sabotage on the Olympic video games. Watch the earlier come to existence during this gripping comic-book story. go back and forth again in time to the Olympic video games in old Greece and meet Pylades and his brother Kinesias, a champion athlete. From falling statues to sinking boats, sign up for the brothers on their harmful event, because it turns into transparent somebody desires to homicide Kinesias earlier than he can compete. yet can they cease the individual at the back of this dastardly assassination plot prior to the video games start?
By James W. Flanagan
E-book by way of Flanagan, James W.