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More than 10,000 years ago, people settled on lands that now lie within the boundaries of the state of Connecticut. Leaving no written records and scarce archaeological remains, these peoples and their communities have remained unknown to all but a few archaeologists and other scholars. This pioneering book is the first to provide a full account of Connecticut's indigenous peoples, from the long-ago days of their arrival to the present day. The author,...
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"A luxury train speeding towards Moscow and a date with destiny. A CIA plane downed in the jungles of the Golden Triangle. A Nazi hoard entombed in the remote mountains of South-West Poland. A missing treasure, the eighth wonder of the world, lost for seven decades. One Russian magnate's dream of restoring a nation to greatness has set in motion a chain of events which will take the world to the brink of chaos. Only Frances Coffey, the CIA's most...
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Jean Seznec was for many years a member of the faculty at Harvard University, and up until his death in 1983 he taught at All Souls College, Oxford, England.
The gods of Olympus died with the advent of Christianity--or so we have been taught to believe. But how are we to account for their tremendous popularity during the Renaissance? This illustrated book, now reprinted in a new, larger paperback format, offers the general reader first a discussion...
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Jane Harrison examines the festivals of ancient Greek religion to identify the primitive "substratum" of ritual and its persistence in the realm of classical religious observance and literature. In Harrison's preface to this remarkable book, she writes that J. G. Frazer's work had become part and parcel of her "mental furniture" and that of others studying primitive religion. Today, those who write on ancient myth or ritual are bound to say the same...
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Jan N. Bremmer is Professor of the History of Religion at the Rijksuniversiteit, Groningen, Holland.
Jan Bremmer presents a provocative picture of the historical development of beliefs regarding the soul in ancient Greece. He argues that before Homer the Greeks distinguished between two types of soul, both identified with the individual: the free soul, which possessed no psychological attributes and was active only outside the body, as in dreams,...
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Carl Kerényi was professor of classics and the history of religion in his native Hungary and later became a citizen of Switzerland. He died in 1973 at the age of 76. His works include Eleusis: Archetypal Image of Mother and Daughter and, with C. G. Jung, Essays on a Science of Mythology: The Myth of the Divine Child and the Mysteries of Eleusis.
No other god of the Greeks is as widely present in the monuments and nature of Greece and Italy, in...
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Ever since embarking on his first expedition to Mt. Ararat, Bob Cornuke, a biblical investigator and real life Indiana Jones, has had a passion shared by only a select group of explorers. Follow Cornuke as he brings this adventure to life and tries to be the one who makes the greatest archaeological discovery in human history - finding the remains of Noah's Ark. This documentary uses the Bible as a road map for uncovering its ancient mysteries. Based...
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While exploring ancient catacombs in Egypt, Reeya Rai, her family, and her friend Finlay discover a chamber containing several mysterious statues, and possibly the key to an ancient library--but when an extreme storm threatens to flood the site, Reeya and Finlay have to invent away to protect their find.
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Following up on his two recent, widely acclaimed studies of ancient Israelite history and society, William Dever here reconstructs the practice of religion in ancient Israel from the bottom up. Archaeological excavations reveal numerous local and family shrines where sacrifices and other rituals were carried out. Intrigued by this "folk religion" in all its variety and vitality, Dever writes about ordinary people in ancient Israel and their everyday...
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Varanasi India's Spiritual Sanctuary,Nestled along the banks of the sacred Ganges River, Varanasi, known as Kashi in ancient scriptures, is a city that pulsates with the essence of India's rich cultural and spiritual heritage. Revered as one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, Varanasi is a tapestry of history, spirituality, and mysticism.In this captivating exploration of Varanasi's heritage, we embark on a journey through its...
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Digging through History follows rabbi and archaeologist Richard Freund's journey through some of the most fascinating archaeological sites of human history-including the mysterious Atlantis, Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the long-buried Holocaust camp Sobibor. Each chapter takes readers through a different archaeological site, showing what we can learn about past religious life and religious faith through the artifacts found there, as well...
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Pfarrer Bernd Zimmermann möchte mit diesem Buch über sein Leben ein Zeichen setzen, an seinem Beispiel zeigen, dass die meisten Priester rechtschaffene Menschen sind, die den Glauben mit voller Überzeugung leben – das ist nach seiner Erfahrung die Mehrheit, nicht diejenigen, die kleine Seelen peinigen und Kinder missbrauchen. Zu Themen wie Missbrauch, Frauenordination und Zölibat hat er eine klare Meinung. Der Seelsorger erzählt von Zeiten...
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The two great Persian invasions of Greece, in 490 and 480-79 B.C., both repulsed by the Greeks, provide our best opportunity for understanding the interplay of religion and history in ancient Greece. Using the Histories of Herodotus as well as other historical and archaeological sources, Jon Mikalson shows how the Greeks practiced their religion at this pivotal moment in their history.In the period of the invasions and the years immediately after,...
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Im meinem neuen Buch wird versucht hinter das Alltagsleben zu schauen. Es zeigt Möglichkeiten auf wie sich der Mensch selbst besser kennenlernen kann. Es verhilft ihm die Oberflächlichkeit des Lebens zu hinterfragen um letztendlich das Leben eingebettet in größeren Zusammenhängen zu sehen und um es dadurch besser wahrzunehmen.
Viele Fragen, die gestellt werden, sollen den Leser wachrütteln. Es soll verstehen wie und warum wir tagtäglich unsere...
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Gibt es wirklich ernsthafte und stichhaltige Gründe, Muslim zu sein? Worauf basiert die Behauptung, dass der Koran von Gott (Allah) stammt? In diesem Buch nimmt der Autor dieses bedeutsame Thema in Angriff und sucht nach einer Antwort, indem er sich selbst fragt: Warum bin ich Muslim? Die Klärung dieses Punktes eröffnet ein Verständnis dafür, warum wir hier sind, ob das Leben einen Sinn hat, wohin wir gehen und ob wir die Möglichkeit haben,...
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"In May 1940, as the German army blitzes Europe and Parisians flee their city, the chief curator of the Musée de l'Armée is ordered to get a mysterious piece of cargo out of the country. When he arrives at the port of Le Havre and learns that his intended ship has been sunk, he places the object on a decrepit steamer that sails out under German fire. In the present day, National Underwater and Marine Agency Director Dirk Pitt is on a diving expedition...
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John Dominic Crossan, the eminent historical Jesus scholar, and Jonathan L. Reed, an expert in biblical archaeology, reveal through archaeology and textual scholarship that Paul, like Jesus, focused on championing the Kingdom of God--a realm of justice and equality--against the dominant, worldly powers of the Roman empire. Many theories exist about who Paul was, what he believed, and what role he played in the origins of Christianity. Using archaeological...
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