Crucible of pueblos

Compares the rise of villages during the early Pueblo period to similar processes in other parts of the Southwest and examines how the study of the early Pueblo period contributes to an anthropological understanding of Southwest history and early farming societies throughout the world.

Pesher nahum

Contains 25 articles (20 in English, 5 in Hebrew) that span a broad array of topics within the fields of Hebraica, Judaica, and Biblica. Also included is a comprehensive bibliography of the honoree's works as well as discrete indexes of manuscripts, biblical references, classical and medieval wor...

Were our mouths filled with song

Since the period in which the Jewish liturgy was standardized, there has hardly been a time when it was not in a state of flux. Friedland explores the countless ways that the Siddur, Mahzor and Haggadah have been adjusted or transformed so as to faithfully mirror modern Jews' understanding of the...

The joint expedition to caesarea maritima excavation reports

In the northwest quarter of the site of Caesarea Maritima is Field O, the location known as "the synagogue site and Jewish Quarter." Comprehensive research has discovered previously unknown records from the 1962 excavations and produced a comparative study of the 1945/46, 1956/62, and 1982/84 exc...

Ladies, whores, and holy women

This sourcebook presents editions and translations of seven 14th- and 15th-century texts that advance our understanding of gender, sexuality, and class in the late medieval German-speaking world. Three of the translated texts are fiction. Additionally, there is a religious treatise, a religious l...

The liturgy of the medieval church

Addresses the needs of teachers and advanced students who are preparing classes on the Middle Ages or who find themselves confounded in their studies by reference to the various liturgies that were fundamental to the lives of medieval peoples.

Ioannina (greek language text) pb

Ioannina is a city where legends and nature intertwine, a city in which the lake plays a leading role. This book looks at Ioannina during the ages before and after the invention of script, the Byzantine and post-Byzantine times, the city’s conquest by the Ottomans, the reign of Ali Pasha and the ...

Between heaven and earth

Companion to an exhibit at the Oriental Institute Museum, this is the first comprehensive study of birds in ancient Egyptian society, economy, art, and religion. An index of bird species makes this volume useful for naturalists as well as for Egyptologists and art historians.

A historical and economic geography of ottoman greece

This innovative study of the southwestern Peloponnese or Morea combines the study of unpublished Ottoman documents, other historical sources and the results of archaeological fieldwork to explore the historical and economic geography of a particular region of Greece in the early 18th century.

The temple of apollo bassitas iii

The definitive publication of the Temple of Apollo at Bassai, in the northwest Peloponnese, this is one of four volumes. Volume III contains the catalogue of drawings of the measured blocks; reproductions of 19th- and 20th-century drawings and unpublished photographs, as well as photographs of si...

Exile in amsterdam

Exile in Amsterdam is based on a rich, extensive, and previously untapped source for one of the most important and fascinating Jewish communities in early modern Europe: the sermons of Saul Levi Morteira (ca. 1596-1660). It offers those interested in European Jewish history access to primary sour...

A narrative of the chronicle of cyprus 1456-1489

Translated from the Greek by Nicholas Coureas.  Together with an anthology of Greeks texts from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries realting to Cyprus, and translated by Hans A. Pohlsander.

The diary of grand duchess elena vladimirovna princess nicholas of greece

The reader of this edited diary follows the course of the Second World War and related events taking place in Greece. The text, in combination with the editor’s comments, revive that period of Greek history; the editor provides, where possible, thorough biographical information regarding almost ...

Hebrew union college annual volumes 84-85

The journal of the Hebrew Union College, an anthology of scholarly articles concerning Jewish history, religion and culture from antiquity to the present.

Studies in late medieval italian art

In this second volume of Professor White's studies, the emphasis shifts to Italian art in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and the major figures who were responsible for the decisive changes in painting and sculpture that were to lead on to the Renaissance. Here again, however, there is t...

The emergence of china

It contains more than 500 translated excerpts from the classical texts, linked by a running commentary which traces the evolution and interaction of the different schools of thought.

The third gender and aelfric's lives of saints

"The Third Gender" considers Ælfric of Eynsham's treatment of gender as he translates Latin monastic saints' Lives for his Anglo-Saxon lay audience.

Heaven on earth

The volume is the result of the eighth Annual University of Chicago Oriental Institute Seminar, held on March 2-3, 2012. Seventeen speakers, from both the US and abroad, examined the interconnections between temples, ritual, and cosmology from a variety of regional specializations and theoretical...

Babylonian planetary omens part i

The first in an intended series of studies of the canonical corpus of celestial omens, Enuma Anu Enlil. Tablet 63, the 'Venus' tablet, forms the basis of this study. Enuma Anu Enlil is the name by which the series of celestial omens was known to the Babylonians.

A bibliographical guide to the study of troubadours and old occitan literature

New bibliographic guide to Occitan and troubadour literature provides a definitive survey of the field of Occitan literary studies - from the earliest enigmatic texts to the 15th-century works of Jordi de Sant Jordi. Will become the essential source for Occitan literary studies worldwide.

Design and techniques in early medieval celtic metalwork

This book examines Early Medieval Celtic design in a European context, its links to Anglo-Saxon and continental art, and its debt to classical traditions. It spans topics including gold origins, animal ornament evolution, and design principles and explores early Irish texts on jewellery and cloth...

The new chronology of iron age gordion

Challenging the traditional understanding of Gordion's history, proposing a shift in the dating of a significant destruction event from 700 B.C. to 800 B.C. Multidisciplinary research, combining dendrochronology, radiocarbon dating, and textual and artifact analysis, supports this revised chronol...

Reliefs and inscriptions at luxor temple, volume 1

Field work of the Epigraphic Survey on the walls of the temples and tombs of Luxor, recording the inscriptions and reliefs in facsimile for posterity.The portfolio of large drawings is accompanied by a text booklet, which has a list of plates, transliterations and translations of the texts, comme...

Thin-section petrography of ceramic materials

As part of the INSTAP Archaeological Excavation Manual series, Thin-Section Petrography of Ceramic Materials provides a concise overview of the history and application of the practice while detailing how this type of petrographic analysis can benefit archaeologists in the field.

Animals of ancient egypt

The artifacts of tikal--utilitarian artifacts and unworked material

Occupied continuously for 1,500 years, Tikal was the most important demographic, economic, administrative, and ritual center of its region. The collection of materials recovered at Tikal is the largest and most diverse known from the Lowlands. This book provides a major body of primary data. The...