Category: Early Christianity

THE ANALYTICAL GREEK LEXICON CONSISTING OF AN ALPHABETICAL ARRANGEMENT OF EVERY OCCURRING INFLEXION OF EVERY WORD CONTAINED IN THE GREEK NEW TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES With a Grammatical Analysis of Each Word, and Lexicographical Illustration of the Meanings. a Complete Series of Paradigms, with Grammatical Remarks and Explanations.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Zondervan Publishing House : 1976

Seller ID: 8323

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

Light rubbing to boards. Top corners lightly bumped. Former owner's name on ffep. ; 444 pages
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A CONFLICT OF IDEAS IN THE LATE ROMAN EMPIRE The Clash between the Senate and Valentinian I

By: Alföldi, Andrew (Trans. Harold Mattingly)

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Oxford Clarendon Press : 1952

Seller ID: 3837

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Sound copy; 151 pages; The old world of pagan thought and custom, based on the city of Rome, tries to defend itself against the forces of innovation and disruption in the new age....On the one side, the emperor, representing the mass of the citizens...on the other, the senate and aristocracy of Rome, representing the ancient tradition and way of life. The conflict turns round the trials of leading Roman nobles for magical practices-- regarded by them as a permissible maintenance of traditional rites, but by the Emperor as symptoms of ...
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?I SOWED FRUITS INTO HEARTS? (ODES SOL. 17: 13) Festschrift for Professor Michael Lattke

By: Allen, Pauline & Majella Franzmann, & Rick Strelan (Eds. )

Price: $90.00

Publisher: St Pauls Publications : 2008

Seller ID: 17425

ISBN-13: 9780975213865

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fine with no dust jacket

The title of this wide-ranging collection of essays in German and English summarises the scholarly work of Professor Michael Lattke across two hemispheres. Offered to him on the occasion of his retirement from the University of Queensland, this volume reflects the breadth of erudition for which he has acquired his international reputation. The Odes of Solomon, which figure largely in Professor Lattke?s research, are well represented here, and so too is the Gospel of John, which was the subject of his early research. However, the tributes of his colleagues and former students in this book range...
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DES HEILIGEN ATHANASIUS [2 VOLUME SET] I: Vier Reden Gegen Die Arianer, Vier Briefe an Serapion, Brief an Epiktet; II: Gegen Die Heiden, Über Die Menschwerdung, Leben Des Heilige Antonius. Mit Einem Anhang Leben Des Heiligen Pachomius

By: Athanasius, Alexandrinus; Anton Stegmann & Joseph Lippl

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Munich, Jos. Kösel & Friedr. Pustet : 1913

Seller ID: 20651

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Scholar's name to ffep (Christian Habicht) , else unmarked. Nicely bound in a cream-colored boards with orange leather labels and gilt lettering. Minor scuffing to rear board of V2. Spines slightly browned. Light foxing to some pages. Some waviness to pages of V2. ; N. D. 2 volumes (1913-1917 as per worldcat) . V1: xxxix, 520pp; V2: 156, 101, 122 pp. ; Bibliothek Der Kirchenväter, 13 & 31; Vol. 1/2/2023
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JULIAN An Intellectual Biography

By: Athanassiadi, Polymnia

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Routledge : 1992

Seller ID: 6253

ISBN-13: 9780415077637

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine

Former copy of Prof. J. F. Drinkwater. ; Classical Lives; 8.75 x 1 x 5.75 Inches; 249 pages
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JULIAN An Intellectual Biography

By: Athanassiadi, Polymnia

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Routledge : 1992

Seller ID: 10114

ISBN-13: 9780415077637

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Light creasing to spine. Minor shelfwear. ; Classical Lives; 8.75 x 1 x 5.75 Inches; 249 pages
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DES HEILIGEN AUGUSTIN BEKENNTNISSE Übertragen Und Eingeleitet Von Hermann Hefele

By: Augustine; Herman Hefele

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Jena, Eugen Diederichs : 1928

Seller ID: 20864

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket

Scholar's name to ffep (Christian Habicht). Former owner's bookplate partially removed from front pastedown with slight damage. Light fraying to top of spine. Tanning to pages. Pencil marginalia and underlining to a few pages. ; Xix, 315pp, (2). ; 315 pages
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STROMATA II: AURELII AUGUSTINI CONTRA ACADEMICOS DE BEATA VITA NECNON DE ORDINE LIBRI. Quos Ad Fidem Codicum Recensuit Prolegomnis Notisque Instruxit Wilhelmus M. Green

By: Augustine; Wilhelm M. Green

Price: $33.00

Publisher: Spectrum : 1955

Seller ID: 25962

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good+

3 pages with pencil notes and light pen. Wraps are a bit browned. Former owner's name to ffep. ; Latin Text. ; Stromata Patristica Et Mediaevalia II; 148 pages
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PROLONGEMENTS ET RENOUVELLEMENTS DE LA TRADITION CLASSIQUE En Hommage à Didier Pralon

By: Balansard, Anne & Gilles Dorival & Mireille Loubet

Price: $47.00

Publisher: Publications de l'Université de Provence : 2011

Seller ID: 15171

ISBN-13: 9782853997676

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

Top corners and a few pages are bumped. ; Les Prolongements et renouvellements de la tradition classique prennent la suite des Fondements de la tradition classique. Les études qui y sont réunies abordent les prolongements païens et chrétiens de cette tradition dans le monde gréco-romain. Elles permettent d?apprécier la variété et la richesse de l?exploration de l?héritage grec sur un long terme, des temps bibliques (Bible grecque, Bible hébraïque, Philon d?Alexandrie) à l?époque patristique, et jusqu?au monde moderne. Elles reflètent également son influence sur des auteurs appartenant à d?autr...
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CONSTANTINE AND EUSEBIUS

By: Barnes, Timothy D.

Price: $70.00

Publisher: Harvard University Press : 1981

Seller ID: 18188

ISBN-13: 9780674165304

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good dust jacket

Minor shelfwear to book with bump to 1 corner. Dustjacket spine is lightly sunned and discolored. DJ has large tear to upper corner (1cm by 4 cm). ; This study of the Roman Empire in the age of Constantine offers a thoroughly new assessment of the part Christianity played in the Roman world of the third and fourth centuries. Mr. Barnes gives the fullest available narrative history of the reigns of Diocletian and Constantine. He analyzes Constantine's rise to power and his government, demonstrating how Constantine's sincere adherence to Christianity advanced his political aims. He explores the ...
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THE NEW TESTAMENT BACKGROUND: SELECTED DOCUMENTS

By: Barrett, C. K.

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Harper & Row : 1961

Seller ID: 30478

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Spine sunned. Gold star stamped to front wrap. ; 276 pages
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A GREEK-ENGLISH LEXICON OF THE NEW TESTAMENT AND OTHER EARLY CHRISTIAN LITERATURE A Translation and Adaptation of Walter Bauer's Griechisch-Deutsches Wörterbuch Zu Den Schriften Des Neuen Testaments Und Den Übrigen Urchristlichen Literatur.

By: Bauer, Walter & William F. Arndt & F. Wilbur Gingrich

Price: $48.00

Publisher: University of Chicago Press / Cambridge University Press : 1964

Seller ID: 34025

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

Former owner's name stamped and in pen to ffep. Else minor shelfwear. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 909 pages; Exhaustive and irreplaceable, Walter Bauer's lexicon is one of the great momuments of biblical and related scholarship, perfect for English speaking students working in the Greek text.
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A GREEK-ENGLISH LEXICON OF THE NEW TESTAMENT AND OTHER EARLY CHRISTIAN LITERATURE A Translation and Adaptation of Walter Bauer's Griechisch-Deutsches Wörterbuch Zu Den Schriften Des Neuen Testaments Und Den Übrigen Urchristlichen Literatur.

By: Bauer, Walter & William F. Arndt & F. Wilbur Gingrich

Price: $42.00

Publisher: University of Chicago Press / Cambridge University Press : 1974

Seller ID: 34591

ISBN-13: 9780226027142

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket

Former owner's name stamped and in pen to ffep. Else minor shelfwear. Thin strip of upper edge of boards near hinge has sheared off (~3cm) exposing board underneath. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 909 pages; Exhaustive and irreplaceable, Walter Bauer's lexicon is one of the great momuments of biblical and related scholarship, perfect for English speaking students working in the Greek text.
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RELIGIONS OF ROME Volume 1: a History

By: Beard, Mary & John North & Simon Price

Price: $24.00

Publisher: Cambridge University Press : 1998

Seller ID: 36264

ISBN-13: 9780521316828

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Minor shelfwear. Creasing to lower corners of wraps. ; This book offers a radical new survey of more than a thousand years of religious life in Rome, from the foundation of the city to its rise to world empire and its conversion to Christianity. It sets religion in its full cultural context, between the primitive hamlet of the eighth century BC and the cosmopolitan, multicultural society of the first centuries of the Christian era. ; Vol. 1; 476 pages
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RELIGIONS OF ROME Volume 2: a Sourcebook

By: Beard, Mary & John North & Simon Price

Price: $24.00

Publisher: Cambridge University Press : 1998

Seller ID: 36265

ISBN-13: 9780521456463

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Minor shelfwear. Creasing to lower corners of wraps. ; This book, the second of the two volumes that make up Religions of Rome, presents a wide range of documents illustrating religious life in the Roman world from the early Republic to the late Empire (both visual evidence and texts in translation). More than just a "sourcebook," it explores some of the major themes and problems of Roman religion (such as sacrifice, the religious calendar, divination and prediction). Each document has an introduction, explanatory notes and bibliography, and is used as the starting point for further discussion...
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FRAGMENTS OF AN UNKNOWN GOSPEL And Other Early Christian Papyri with Five Plates

By: Bell, H. Idris & T. C. Skeat (eds)

Price: $33.00

Publisher: British Museum Trustees : 1935

Seller ID: 1853

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

Top of Backstrip is torn but still attached (1 inch). Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Edgewear to extremities. ; Looks at a Christian papyrus discovered in Egypt. ; 0.24 x 8.98 x 7.32 Inches; 84 pages
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THE SAYINGS OF JESUS IN THE WRITINGS OF JUSTIN MARTYR

By: Bellinzoni, Arthur J

Price: $115.00

Publisher: E. J. Brill : 1967

Seller ID: 325

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Text block is stamped. Cover has tape stains. Last three pages are creased. ; About the middle of the second century Justin Martyr engaged in an active defense of Christianity against paganism. Judaism, and heretical forms of Christianity for which work he can safely be called the first outstanding Christian apologist. Justin sought the truth in the pagan philosophies of Stoicism, Aristotlianism, Pythagoreanism, and Platonism; after his conversion to christianity... Justin opened in Rome a Christian school of philosophy until his mart...
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DE ALLEGORESE IN HET WERK VAN CLEMENS ALEXANDRINUS

By: Boer, W. Den

Price: $33.00

Publisher: E. J. Brill : 1940

Seller ID: 14058

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good+

Light foxing to endpages. Browning to spine and edges of wraps. Small ink drops/drips to front wrap. Corners of wraps a little worn. 1 crease to spine. 2 small tear to upper edge of rear wrap. ; Proefschrift (Diss. ). Dissertationes Inaugurales Batavae Ad Res Antiquas Pertinentes Volumen Primum; 161 pages
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GEBOEID DOOR PLATO Het Christelijk Geloof Bekneld Door Het Glinsterend Pantser Van De Griekse Filosofie

By: Bos, A. P

Price: $38.00

Publisher: Kok : 1996

Seller ID: 9307

ISBN-13: 9789024279661

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good-

Scholar's name to ffep. Pencil underlining throughout with scattered pencil marginalia. Light shelfwear otherwise. ; In dutch. ; Dutch Edition; 180 pages
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EARLY CHRISTIAN PAINTING

By: Bourguet, Pierre Du

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Viking Press : 1965

Seller ID: 17276

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good-

Creasing to corners of front wrap with a couple of small chips. ; Compass History of Art; 176 pages
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AUGUSTUS AND THE GREEK WORLD

By: Bowersock, G. W.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Oxford Clarendon Press : 1965

Seller ID: 34453

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket

Light shelfwear to book. Scholars' bookplate to inner cover (Slater & Dunbabin). DJ spine a bit browned. DJ has some chipping and a few small tears. Some scuffing to DJ. ; 176 pages; The principal theme is the process of consolidation of the Graeco-Roman world under the first Princeps.
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MARTYRDOM AND ROME

By: Bowersock, G. W.

Price: $48.00

Publisher: Cambridge University Press : 1998

Seller ID: 27154

ISBN-13: 9780521465397

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

Faint shelfwear to book. ; The Wiles Lectures Given At the Queen's University, Belfast; 120 pages
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MARTYRDOM AND ROME

By: Bowersock, G. W.

Price: $42.00

Publisher: Cambridge University Press : 1995

Seller ID: 34480

ISBN-13: 9780521465397

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

Scholars' bookplate to inner cover (Slater & Dunbabin). Else book is fine. DJ has very minor shelfwear. ; This book examines the historical context of the earliest Christian martyrs, and anchors their grisly and often willful self-sacrifice to the everyday life and outlook of the cities (mostly Greek) of the Roman empire. By exploring the remains of contemporary documents of martyrdoms in the centuries before Constantine, it provides a historical explanation of why martyrdom occurred when and as it did, and thereby tries to expose the fundamental assumptions of a radical new form of religious ...
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LATE ANTIQUITY A Guide to the Postclassical World

By: Bowersock, G.W. & Oleg Grabar & G. W. Bowersock

Price: $38.00

Publisher: Belknap Press : 2000

Seller ID: 18210

ISBN-13: 9780674511736

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

Book has very light shelfwear else fine. DJ has 1 tiny chip and faint crease along upper edge. ; The first book of its kind, this richly informative guide to the world of late antiquity offers the most recent scholarship to the researcher along with sheer reading pleasure to the browser. In eleven comprehensive essays and in over 500 encyclopedic entries, an international cast of experts provides essential information and fresh perspectives on the history and culture of an era marked by the rise of two world religions, unprecedented political upheavals that remade the map of the known world, a...
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LEXICON SYRIACUM Editio Secunde Aucta Et Emendata

By: Brockelmann, Carl

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Georg Olms Hildesheim : 1995

Seller ID: 3001

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

Minor shelfwear else Fine; Reprint of 1928 Edition. ; 1.2 x 8.9 x 6.4 Inches; 520 pages
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RELIGION AND SOCIETY IN THE AGE OF ST. AUGUSTINE

By: Brown, Peter

Price: $67.00

Publisher: Faber & Faber : 1972

Seller ID: 27130

ISBN-13: 9780571095087

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. Light spotting to boards. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). DJ spine a bit browned. ; 0.37 x 8.25 x 5.55 Inches; 352 pages
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THE EMPEROR JULIAN

By: Browning, Robert

Price: $38.00

Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson : 1977

Seller ID: 948

ISBN-13: 9780297770299

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

Dustjacket is protected in mylar. Light soiling to textblock. The first 20 pages are creased but with no loss to text else VG. Adhesives stain to front free-page. ; 256 pages; Julian is called by Christians "The Apostate" because they believe he converted from Christianity to Paganism. He himself, as attested to in private letters between him and the Rhetorician Libanius, had Christianity forced on him as a child by his cousin Constantius II, who was a zealot Christian and would have not tolerated a pagan relative, but Julian had never really accepted any religion until his reading of the Home...
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SAINT AUGUSTIN Un Père D'Église

By: Burger, J.-D.

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Neuchatel, A La Baconnière : 1948

Seller ID: 21398

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good-

Small tears in backstrip, a few small spots on rear wrap and one on spine. Spine slightly browned. Pages tanned. Else Very Good. ; 240 pages
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THE OTHER SIDE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION: READINGS IN EVERYDAY LIFE Volume I: the Ancient World to the Reformation

By: Chodorow, Stanley (Ed. )

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich : 1973

Seller ID: 3172

ISBN-13: 9780155676466

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Minor creasing to bottom of front wrap. Shelfwear. ; Articles by AHM Jones, M I Finley, Samuel Angus, E A Thompson, Njal's Saga, Lynn White, Jr. , Irving Agus, Norman Chon, Peter Abelard, Austin P Evans, Sidney Painter, Urban T Holmes, Charles H Haskins, Margaret Labarge, William Bowsky, Thomas B Costain, ...etc..; 290 pages; The book consists of secondary readings with a strong social history focus. It provides students with exposure to the latest issues in European social history and to the nature of history research. At the same time, the articles themselves are easily linked to mainstream ...
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CHRISTUS ODER JUPITER Der Kampf Um Die Geistigen Grundlagen Des Römischen Reiches

By: Christensen, Torben

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Gottingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht : 1981

Seller ID: 22112

ISBN-13: 9783525016121

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Very light shelfwear. ; Sammlung Vandenhoeck; 295 pages
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PAULINUS NOSTER Self and Symbols in the Letters of Paulinus of Nola

By: Conybeare, Catherine

Price: $110.00

Publisher: Clarendon Press : 2000

Seller ID: 134

ISBN-13: 9780199240722

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Dustjacket protected in mylar. ; This literate and accessible study examines the profound impact Paulinus had on Christian thought during a crucial period of its development. The letters of Paulinus and his correspondents portray an early Christian 'web' of shared concepts, intellectual discussion, and group development. Catherine Conybeare examines how the very process of writing and transmitting letters between members of a community helped to bind that community together and to aid the creation of ideas that would continue to reverberate for centuries. Paulinus was key to that group iconic ...
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THE MARTYRS OF CÓRDOBA Community and Family Conflict in an Age of Mass Conversion

By: Coope, Jessica A.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press : 1995

Seller ID: 2984

ISBN-13: 9780803214712

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

Dustjacket is protected in mylar. Small mark ~1cm to front of DJ (ink? ). Dustjacket has minor shelfwear. Publisher's remainder mark to bottom of textblock (black felt ink line) else Fine. ; 0.68 x 8.78 x 5.78 Inches; 115 pages; Between 850 and 859 (Christian Era) , the Muslim government of Córdoba ordered the execution of forty-eight Christians. With few exceptions, these Christians invited execution by committing capital offenses: some appeared before the Muslim authorities to denounce Mohammed; others, Christian children of mixed Islamic-Christian marriages, publicly proclaimed their Christ...
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PAGAN CITY AND CHRISTIAN CAPITAL Rome in the Fourth Century

By: Curran, John R.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press : 2000

Seller ID: 4271

ISBN-13: 9780198152781

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

Very light shelfwear else Fine. ; This book is a study of the transformation of the landscape, civic life, and moral values of the pagan city of Rome following the conversion of the emperor Constantine in the early fourth century. It examines the effects of the rise of Christianity and the decline of paganism in the later Roman empire. ; Oxford Classical Monographs; 416 pages
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SELECT EPISTLES OF ST. CYPRIAN, TREATING OF THE EPISCOPATE After the Translation of Nathaniel Marshall. Edited with Introduction & Notes

By: Cyprian; T.. A. Lacey & (Nathaniel Marshall)

Price: $23.00

Publisher: London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge : 1922

Seller ID: 20999

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Endpapers browned. From the collection of James Hastings with bookplate to inner cover. ; N. D. (c. 1922). Translations of Christian Literature series. L 175pp. ; Translations of Christian Literature Series II. Latin Texts; 175 pages
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THE TOMB OF SAINT PETER A representative and annotated bibliography of the excavations

By: De Marco, Angelus A.

Price: $70.00

Publisher: Brill Academic : 1964

Seller ID: 393

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Adhesive traces from former library sticker. ; 264 pages
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HIPPO REGIUS From the Earliest Times to the Arab Conquest

By: Dennis III, Holmes Van Mater

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Adolf M. Hakkert : 1970

Seller ID: 11814

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine with no dust jacket

An attempt to collect in one account and to evaluate the broken and scattered notices of the history of Hippo Regius. ; 80 pages
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EIRENE Der Urchristliche Friedensgedanke. Vorgetragen Am 29, Januar 1972

By: Dinkler, Erich

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Heidelberg, Carl Winter Universitätsverlag : 1973

Seller ID: 22855

ISBN-13: 9783533022619

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Sitzungsberichte Der Heidelberger Akademie Der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-Historische Klasse Jahrgang 1979. 1. Abhandlung; 48 pages
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DAS NEUE TESTAMENT IM RAHMEN DER ANTIKEN LITERATURGESCHICHTE Eine Einführung

By: Dormeyer, Detlev

Price: $23.00

Publisher: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft : 1993

Seller ID: 8484

ISBN-13: 9783534068302

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Very light shelfwear else Fine. ; Die Altertumswissenschaft; 314 pages
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THE LATE ROMAN EMPIRE

By: Downey, Glanville

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston : 1969

Seller ID: 1467

ISBN-13: 9780030809705

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Book has minor shelfwear and rubbing. ; Discusses the 3rd Century Crisis to the Fifth Century (including the foundation of the Byzantine Empire). ; Berkshire studies in history; 148 pages
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CONSTANTINE AND THE BISHOPS The Politics of Intolerance

By: Drake, H. A.

Price: $55.00

Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press : 2000

Seller ID: 2110

ISBN-13: 9780801862182

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. Light Bumping to bottom of spine. ; Ancient Society and History; 1.68 x 8.76 x 8.78 Inches; 632 pages; Historians who viewed imperial Rome in terms of a conflict between pagans and Christians have often regarded the emperor Constantine's conversion as the triumph of Christianity over paganism. But in Constantine and the Bishops, historian H. A. Drake offers a fresh and more nuanced understanding of Constantine's rule and, especially, of his relations with Christians. Constantine, Drake suggests, was looking not only for a god in whom to believe but a...
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CONSTANTINE AND THE BISHOPS The Politics of Intolerance

By: Drake, H. A.

Price: $55.00

Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press : 2000

Seller ID: 3611

ISBN-13: 9780801862182

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Dustjacket has minor shelfwear. ; Ancient Society and History; 1.68 x 8.76 x 8.78 Inches; 632 pages; Historians who viewed imperial Rome in terms of a conflict between pagans and Christians have often regarded the emperor Constantine's conversion as the triumph of Christianity over paganism. But in Constantine and the Bishops, historian H. A. Drake offers a fresh and more nuanced understanding of Constantine's rule and, especially, of his relations with Christians. Constantine, Drake suggests, was looking not only for a god in whom to believe but also a policy he could adopt. Uncovering the po...
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PORTRAITS OF SPIRITUAL AUTHORITY Religious Power in Early Christianity, Byzantium and the Christian Orient

By: Drijvers, Jan Willem & John W. Watt

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers : 1999

Seller ID: 3029

ISBN-13: 9789004114593

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Good dust jacket

Top of front panel of dustjacket has tear at corner (1") and creasing along with chipping at head of spine. ; Religions in the Graeco-Roman World; 0.7 x 9.5 x 6.3 Inches; 227 pages; This volume deals with several figures of spiritual authority in Christianity during late antiquity and the early middle ages, and seeks to illuminate the way in which the struggle for religious influence evolved with changes in church and society. A number of literary portraits are examined, portraits which, in various literary genres, are themselves designed to establish and propagate the authority of the people...
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BYZANTIUM AND THE ROMAN PRIMACY

By: Dvornik, Francis

Price: $80.00

Publisher: Fordham University Press : 1966

Seller ID: 3019

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

Dustjacket has shelfwear and rubbing has effaced the colour in a few places. One closed tear to DJ near top corner. Light edgewear to DJ. Light shelfwear to book ; Contents: The Principle of Accommodation; the Principle of Apostolicity; schism of acacius; justinian and Rome; primacy in the seventh and eighth centuries; photius and the primacy; crisis of the eleventh century. ; 176 pages
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CONSTANTINE THE GREAT

By: Dörries, Hermann; Roland H. Bainton (Trans. )

Price: $6.00

Publisher: NY, Harper & Row : 1972

Seller ID: 21929

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good

Large bookstore ink-stamp on ffep. Highlighting to about 4 pages. ; Xi, 250pp. ; 250 pages
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CONSTANTINE THE GREAT

By: Dörries, Hermann; Roland H. Bainton (Trans. )

Price: $7.00

Publisher: NY, Harper & Row : 1972

Seller ID: 19209

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good-

Creasing to front wrap. Chipping to corners. Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). Small stain to textblock. ; Xi, 250pp. ; 250 pages
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RELIGION AND COMPETITION IN ANTIQUITY

By: Engels, David & Peter Van Nuffelen

Price: $62.00

Publisher: Éditions Latomus : 2014

Seller ID: 27610

ISBN-13: 9782870312902

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Small chip to base of spine. Else fine. ; The notion of competition has become crucial to our understanding of Greek and Roman religion and is often invoked to explain religous changes and to describe the relationship between various cults. This volume seeks to raise our awareness of what the notion implies and to test its use for the analysis of ancient religions. The papers range from Classical Greece, Hellenistic Babylon, Rome and the Etruscans, to Late Antiquity and the rise of Islam. They seek to determine how much can be gained in each individual case by understanding religious interacti...
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EUSEBII [EUSEBIUS] PAMPHILI CONTRA HIEROCLEM ET MARCELLUM LIBRI Edidit Thomas Gaisford

By: Eusebius Pamphili / Of Caesarea; Thomas Gaisford

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press : 1952

Seller ID: 27781

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

Bound in half-leather boards with brown pebbled cloth. Appears to be ex-library as spines are labelled with gilt library (Ontario Library) but no internal ex-library markings. Rubbing to leather in places with leather flecking to corners and spine. Small tear to head of spine. Foxing to endpapers. Else minor shelfwear VG. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 416 pages
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EUSEBIUS VON CAESAREA: KIRCHENGESCHICHTE

By: Eusebius Von Caesarea; Heinrich Kraft (Hrsg. )

Price: $68.00

Publisher: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft : 1981

Seller ID: 9253

ISBN-13: 9783534136483

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

Former owner's name to ffep. Light creasing and bumping to top corner. Light shelfwear. ; 474 pages
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EUSEBIUS' ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY According to the Text of Burton with an Introduction

By: Eusebius; William Bright

Price: $28.00

Publisher: Oxford At the Clarendon Press : 1925

Seller ID: 14300

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Spine sunned. Light tanning to pages. Small chip to base of spine. Corners lightly bumped. ; Includes Greek Title: Eusebiou tou Pamphilou istorias ekklesiastikes. Logoi Deka. ; 374 pages
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EUSEBIUS' ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY According to the Text of Burton with an Introduction

By: Eusebius; William Bright

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Oxford At the Clarendon Press : 1872

Seller ID: 18355

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair with no dust jacket

Inner hinges broken. Tears along joints and ends of spine cover with chipping. Spine browned. Ink notes to some pages with small ink stain to textblock. ; Includes Greek Title: Eusebiou tou Pamphilou istorias ekklesiastikes. Logoi Deka. ; 374 pages
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Category: Early Christianity