CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names

CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names
Author: Umberto Quattrocchi
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 738
Release: 1999-11-17
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780849326752

This volume provides the origins and meanings of the names of genera and species of extant vascular plants, with the genera arranged alphabetically from A to C.

Wisdom, Gods and Literature

Wisdom, Gods and Literature
Author: Wilfred G. Lambert
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
Total Pages: 476
Release: 2000
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9781575060040

This collection of essays composed by an international array of friends and colleagues typifies the career accomplishments and scholarly endeavors of W. G. Lambert.

CRC World Dictionary of Plant Nmaes

CRC World Dictionary of Plant Nmaes
Author: Umberto Quattrocchi
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 704
Release: 1999-11-17
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780849326776

This volume provides the origins and meanings of the names of genera and species of extant vascular plants, with the genera arranged alphabetically from M to Q.

Dictionary of the Ancient Near East

Dictionary of the Ancient Near East
Author: Piotr Bienkowski
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2000
Genre: Iraq
ISBN: 9780812235579

An authoritative guide to the whole of the cradle of civilization.

Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical & Post-Biblical Antiquity: Plants & Flowers

Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical & Post-Biblical Antiquity: Plants & Flowers
Author: Edwin M. Yamauchi
Publisher: Hendrickson Publishers
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2022-05-17
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1619709864

This unique reference article, excerpted from the larger work (Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical and Post-Biblical Antiquity), provides background cultural and technical information on the world of the Hebrew Bible and New Testament from 2000 BC to approximately AD 600. Written and edited by a world-class historian and a highly respected biblical scholar, each article addresses cultural, technical, and/or sociological issues of interest to the study of the Scriptures. Contains a high level of scholarship.Information and concepts are explained in detail and are accompanied by bibliographic material for further exploration.Useful for scholars, pastors, teachers, and students—for biblical study, exegesis, or sermon preparation.Possible areas covered include details of domestic life, technology, culture, laws, or religious practices.Each article ranges from 5 to 20 pages in length. For the complete contents of Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical and Post-Biblical Antiquity, see ISBN 9781619708617 (4-volume set) or ISBN 9781619701458 (complete in one volume).

A Research Guide to the Ancient World

A Research Guide to the Ancient World
Author: John M. Weeks
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 455
Release: 2014-11-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 1442237406

The archaeological study of the ancient world has become increasingly popular in recent years. A Research Guide to the Ancient World: Print and Electronic Sources, is a partially annotated bibliography. The study of the ancient world is usually, although not exclusively, considered a branch of the humanities, including archaeology, art history, languages, literature, philosophy, and related cultural disciplines which consider the ancient cultures of the Mediterranean world, and adjacent Egypt and southwestern Asia. Chronologically the ancient world would extend from the beginning of the Bronze Age of ancient Greece (ca. 1000 BCE) to the fall of the Western Roman Empire (ca. 500 CE). This book will close the traditional subject gap between the humanities (Classical World; Egyptology) and the social sciences (anthropological archaeology; Near East) in the study of the ancient world. This book is uniquely the only bibliographic resource available for such holistic coverage. The volume consists of 17 chapters and seven appendixes, arranged according to the traditional types of library research materials (bibliographies, dictionaries, atlases, etc.). The appendixes are mostly subject specific, including graduate programs in ancient studies, reports from significant archaeological sites, numismatics, and paleography and writing systems. These extensive author and subject indexes help facilitate ease of use.

Scientific Traditions in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East

Scientific Traditions in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East
Author: Sofie Schiødt
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 458
Release: 2023-08-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 1479823139

Comparative insights on astronomy, divination, and medicine from ancient texts The contributions in this volume revolve around a set of interconnected topics in the ancient sciences: medicine, astronomy, astrology, and divination. Several essays present unpublished textual sources or editions of new source material on divination (e.g., dream interpretation, personal astrology, and Sothis divination) and medicine (e.g., dermatology, gynecology, and apotropaic incantations). Other contributions provide new insights into known corpora or texts, such as the Assyro-Babylonian omens, the Hippocratic treatise Places in Man, Greco-Egyptian medical texts, and the vast astronomical corpus of Greco-Roman Egypt. The interdisciplinary milieu in which these essays were generated, under the aegis of the international Scientific Papyri from Ancient Egypt (SciPap) project, means that many of the studies embrace an explicitly and well-researched cross-cultural and comparative approach, revealing similarities in both certain conceptualizations of disease and healing, and astronomical literature and divinatory practice, across the Mediterranean and Near East. This book will be of interest primarily to specialists in the history of medicine, science, divination, and magic, as well as to papyrologists, Egyptologists, and Assyriologists.