These truths we hold

An impressive list of contributors addressing the subject of truth in Jewish tradition and in contemporary Jewish life from different perspectives. The articles are meant to shore up faith and to serve as a bank of resources to orient readers to Judaism's rich, multi-faceted and morally edifying ...

Demon things

This contributed volume presents a broad array of manifestations given to demons in Ancient Egypt through iconography, objects, or textual descriptions. The contributors explore the range and variation of the entities that the ancient Egyptians believed were capable of harm and help.

Of knyghthode and bataile

Composed for King Henry VI in the middle of the Wars of the Roses, Of Knyghthode and Bataile adapts the most widely used military manual in the Middle Ages into English verse. This edition of the poem also provides a contextualizing introduction and copious notes and glosses to assist the modern ...

Swans and amber

From papyrus rolls, copied and recycled through the centuries, hundreds of short extracts written by Greek poets in the 7th and 6th centuries B.C. survive. This lovely collection, translated into English by a leading classicist, presents a selection of ca. 100 poems by 17 authors with useful hist...

Moche fineline painting from san jose de moro

Moche civilization flourished on the north coast of Peru from AD 200 to 800. Studies a sample of more than 250 painted vessels from the site of San Jose de Moro, providing insights about a community of ancient Peruvian potters who shared a distinctive painting style and left a fascinating record ...

Captain of the guild

In this first printed edition of Falkner's work, a full translation and analysis, combined with a photographic reproduction of the original manuscript are included. The result is an attractive translation of a 500 year old picture-book that shows an adaptation of the Liechtenauer tradition, by a ...

Excavations in the plain of antioch volume iii

Final report of the four archaeological campaigns carried out at the site of Chatal Hoyuk in the Amuq (currently Hatay, Turkey). Includes many previously unpublished materials. The material culture here traces changes and continuity in the site's domestic activities, and shifts in cultural contac...

Ars prophetica

In Ars-Prophetica, Haim O. Rechnitzer uncovers and recovers the theological elements within the poetry of four renowned Hebrew-Israeli poets. Rechnitzer introduces major works of modern Hebrew poetry that are viewed as part of the "secular" heritage of the renewed Hebrew-Israeli culture.

Necropolis of gonur

Gonur was the most important city in the kingdom of Margiana, Turkmenistan. The cemetery contained c3,000 tombs, dating from the end of 3rd to beginning of 2nd millennium BC; it is the largest necropolis of the period to have been excavated. Contains results of the excavations, and anthropologica...

Holy week and easter ceremonies and dramas from medieval sweden

Included here are the texts, translations, musical transcriptions, and facsimiles of the Swedish music-dramas for Holy Week and Easter: Depositio, Elevatio, and Visitatio Sepulchri.

Yang xiong and the pleasures of reading and classical learning in china

Yang Xiong (53 BC-AD 18), the Han philosophical master was supremely aware of longstanding traditions, ascribed both to the sages and to the Classics, contrasting the unusual strength of the basic drives for food and sex with the general weakness of the acquired inclinations toward moral behaviour.

Architectural improvisation

Examines the work of a group of architects which converged in Vermont in the mid-1960s, tracing the development of this Design/Build movement from its roots in Bauhaus theory at Yale School of Architecture. It includes archival photographs and drawings and new architectural photographs. A stunnin...

Blood and beauty

The authors scrutinize the representation of, and relationships between, different types of organized violence, as well as the implications of those activities, which can include the unexpected, such as violence as a means of determining and curing illness, and the use of violence in negotiation ...

A silver book, recent work by thaleia-maria georgoulis

Works by the talented Greek silversmith Thaleia-Maria Georgoulis marking her contribution to the COLLECT exhibition at London' s Victoria and Albert Museum. English and Greek. 50 photographs, b&w and col. Parallel text Greek and English

Archaism and innovation

The current volume assembles a series of studies of Middle Kingdom culture gathered around the theme of archaism, change and innovation.

The temple of ramesses ii in abydos, volume 1 wall scenes (parts 1 and 2)

Volume 1 "Wall Scenes" consists of of two books, with a total of over 400 illustrations and Preface. Volume 2, "Pillars, Miscellany, and Inscriptions", contains additional elements of the temple, as well as translations of the inscriptions found in the temple.

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The oriental institute 2003-2004 annual report

The Oriental Institute Annual Reports contain yearly summaries of the activities of the Institutes faculty, staff, and research projects, as well as descriptions of special events and other Institute functions.

Art and practice of 16th-century german fencing

Joachim Meyer (ca. 1537 - 1571) was one of the most influential fencing masters of the Renaissance—a prolific writer of fencing manuals. In Art and Practice of 16th-Century German Fencing Robert Rutherfoord unpacks the complex and elegant art of Meyer's rapier in word and image, including over 20...

Bir umm fawakhir, volume 2

Bir Umm Fawakhir is a fifth-sixth century AD Coptic/Byzantine gold-mining town in the central Eastern Desert of Egypt. This is the final report on the 1996 and 1997 excavation seasons, completing the detailed map of the main settlement, continuing the investigation of the outlying clusters of rui...

Applied zooarchaeology

Zooarchaeologists increasingly focus onconservation biology.  This book uses a series of case studies explore the types of interdisciplinary challenges that zooarchaeologists face when crossing into the world of environmental management and animal conservation.

Catalog of demotic texts in the brooklyn museum

This catalogue is intended to be only a checklist of the Brooklyn Museum's collection of 212 Demotic Egyptian texts. The catalogue provides both the Museum and Demoticists generally with a list of all the pieces plus only such information as would make the list useful. Includes with key word, nam...

Catastrophe! the looting and destruction of iraq's past

Describes the state of the Iraq National Museum in Baghdad and chronicles the damage done to archaeological sites by illicit digging. Published in conjunction with the exhibit of the same name opening at the Oriental Institute April 10, 2008, this book commemorates the fifth anniversary of the lo...

The fleury playbook

Each essay covers a unique topic in the study of the Playbook, utilizing a diverse set of methodological tools and interdisciplinary approaches for subjects which have not heretofore received adequate scholarly attention. The topics at hand are each of significant interest to the field at large.

He diasose

A new study of the persecution and rescue of Greek Jews in the Third Reich, this book overturns stereotypes and myths. Reveals the attitude and actions of the local Jewish leaders raising questions about what was done and by whom. Cites Greek and international sources, incl. documents, testimonie...

Guy of saint-denis, tractatus de tonis

The Tractatus de tonis of Guy of Saint-Denis (written ca. 1300-10) differs from other treatises on plainchant in the depth of its analysis of the various tones into which chant was traditionally classified.

Anthony munday: the honourable, pleasant and rare conceited historie of palmendos

Anthony Munday (1560?-1633) published this English translation of a Spanish heroic romance in 1589; it follows the adventures of Palmendos on his journey to Constantinople. This is an original-spelling edition producing a reliable text, as close as possible to the author's original manuscript.

The easter sepulchre in england

In addition to a catalogue of Easter sepulchres in England, Professor Sheingorn has produced a superb study of the ceremonies, rites and dramas associated with this structure.

Pseira vii

The results of the cemetery excavations on the small island off the northeast coast of Crete are published in two volumes: Pseira VII presents the results from the excavation and cleaning of the 19 tombs that still exist at the Pseira cemetery.

The metal objects, 1952-1989

Objects made from bronze, iron, copper, gold, silver and lead, recovered from the sanctuary of Poseidon at Isthmia, are published in this volume. Many of the pieces were recovered from the debris of the Archaic Temple of Poseidon and belong to the formative phase of the sanctuary during the 7th a...

Assyrian dictionary of the oriental institute of the university of chicago, volume 4, e

The Chicago Assyrian Dictionary was conceived to provide more than lexical information alone, more than a one-to-one equivalent between Akkadian and English words. By presenting each word in a meaningful context, often with a full and idiomatic translation, it recreates the cultural milieu and in...

The athenian walk and the historic site of athens (english language edition)

This book is a chronicle of visits made to the Acropolis by Greeks and foreigners in the 19th and 20th centuries, and looks at questions such as how successive generations of visitors experience the shrine of the Acropolis, and how was the new "Athenian Walk" created. English language edition. 21...

The combat of the thirty

In this volume Steven Muhlberger translates the historical accounts of the Combat of the Thirty and then examines both what contemporaries thought, and how the battle has been remembered through the centuries, giving readers a window into late medieval chivalric culture.

Ceramics of postclassic cholula, mexico

Cholula played a prominent role in shaping events of central Mexico's Postclassic period. This book provides an innovative new classification of Cholula ceramics, based on artifact assemblages recovered from excavations. A detailed and well-illustrated description of ceramic types is provided to ...

Divine honors for mortal men in greek cities

First translation of Christian Habicht's 1970 German Gottmenschentum und Griechische Städte on ruler cults in the Hellenistic period of Greek history. Updated case studies take account of inscriptional discoveries since the original and additional supplemental material, including detailed subject...

Graffiti as devotion along the nile and beyond

The historical context for a group of ancient and medieval figural graffiti found in 2015 at El-Kurru in northern Sudan, a royal pyramid burial ground of kings and queens of Kush from about 850 to 650 BCE. Written to engage non-specialist readers, the book will be of interest to archaeologists an...

The floure and the leafe, the assembly of ladies, the isle of ladies

An asset to any study of gender in medieval England; three poems that complement each other in their treatments of relations between the sexes. Incl. contextualizing introductions and helpful glosses; also an extensive glossary for the entire volume. Useful to not only beginning students of Middl...

The smyrna quay

Original research using new techniques shows the buildings of the legendary Ottoman port-city (modern-day Izmir) as a continuous architectural and historical ensemble. Includes architectural plans and reconstructions as well as photographs and photomosaics. 620 illus. 140 drawings 2-vol paperback...

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Pioneers to the past

Catalogue of the Oriental Institute special exhibit of the same name, highlights the interconnected stories of an important figure in intellectual history - James Henry Breasted - and the beginnings of American scientific archaeology in the Near East at a crucial turning point in world history at...