“An important new book... offers a powerful call for historians of the ancient Mediterranean to
consider their implicit biases in writing ancient history and it provides an example of how …

'Our greatest blessings come to us by way of mania, provided it is given us by divine gift,'–
says Socrates in Plato's Phaedrus. Certain forms of alteration of consciousness, considered …

Taking up the challenge to develop a new study of the economic patterns in the ancient
Near East, including what passes for ancient “Israel'(the Persian province of Yehud), this …

Archaeological research on the Iron Age (1200–500 BC) Levant, a narrow strip of land
bounded by the Mediterranean Sea and the Arabian Desert, has been balkanized into …

Jeffrey Stackert addresses two of the oldest and most persistent problems in biblical studies:
the relationship between prophecy and law in the Hebrew Bible and the utility of the …

In this sweeping narrative, Michael Satlow tells the fascinating story of how an ancient
collection of obscure Israelite writings became the founding texts of both Judaism and …

Este livro é a continuidade de Arqueologia das terras da Bíblia I. Retoma alguns dos
principais sítios arqueológicos ali tratados e apresenta outros novos, dentre eles: Tel …

Taking advantage of critical methodology for history-writing and the use of anthropological
insights and ethnographic data from the modern Middle East, this study aims at providing …

The Mediterranean Context of Early Greek History p>“Drawing extensively on the latest
archaeological data from the entire Mediterranean basin, Nancy Demand offers a …

The history of David's Jerusalem remains one of the most contentious topics of the ancient
world. This study engages with debates about the nature of this location by examining the …