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Author traces journey of `God's gold' Says Temple icons hidden in W. Bank
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MAR THEODOSIUS, West Bank - Until today, the main claim to fame of
this sleepy monastery, home to 10 nuns on the edge of the Judean
wilderness in the West Bank, was the tradition that said the Three
Wise Men slept in the caves here after visiting the infant Jesus
Christ in Bethlehem.
Now, a new book contends that Mar Theodosius is the last hiding
place of one of the greatest treasures of antiquity: the gold and
silver vessels of the Temple in Jerusalem.
British archeologist Sean Kingsley said he followed the journey of
the legendary vessels for the first time since they disappeared from
public ...
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Francois Chamoux. Hellenistic civilization.(Book Review) (book review)
Magazine article from: Antiquity
; ...Prof. CHAMOUX'S substantial and detailed but elegant textbook is in two parts. The first covers the history of the Hellenistic world, and the second features of the culture--urban life and amenities, the monarchy, the military, religion, and...
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Centre and Periphery in the Hellenistic World. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: Antiquity
; ...expand their understanding of hellenistic history - a period, beginning...produced books, Studies in Hellenistic civilization. Centre and peripheryis the...brushing the period labelled 'hellenistic'. The conventional historical...
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Judaism and Hellenism: Studies in Their Encounter in Palestine during the Early Hellenistic Period
Magazine article from: Journal of Biblical Literature
; ...Palestine during the Early Hellenistic Period. 2 vols. Translated...Judaism in Palestine with the civilization of early Hellenism as a technically...struggle with the spirit of the Hellenistic age, the interpretatio graeca...E. must be regarded as Hellenistic in the strict sense, because...
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Wisdom in loose form; the language of Egyptian and Greek proverbs in collections of the Hellenistic and Roman periods.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News
; ...Greek proverbs in collections of the Hellenistic and Roman periods. Lazaridis, Nikoloas...literature of Egypt and Greece in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. The result is a...examination of the contact these two civilizations had during changing times and establishes...
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India and the Hellenistic World.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society
; India and the Hellenistic World. By KLAUS KARTTUNEN...era, in which Greek civilization and the Greek (as well...Hellenic" and "Hellenistic' representing, respectively...why "Hellenic" or "Hellenistic" at all? Why not find...
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Between Alexandria and Jerusalem; the dynamic of Jewish and Hellenistic culture.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News
; ...Between Alexandria and Jerusalem; the dynamic of Jewish and Hellenistic culture. Kovelman, Arkady. Brill Academic Publishers...of Judaism; v.21 DS121 Kevelman (Jewish studies and civilization and Asian and African studies, Moscow State U.) approaches...Aristeas, while Jerusalem represents Byzantine and Talmudic ...
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Mediterranean, Aegean, Classical and Hellenistic archaeology.(Bibliography)
Magazine article from: Antiquity
; ...early Helladic Greece (Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, Boreas, Uppsala Studies in Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Civilizations 29). xiv+406 pages, 80 illustrations, 10 tables. 2007. Uppsala: Uppsala University; 978-91-554-6782-1...
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Reconstructing western civilization; irreverent essays on antiquity.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News
; ...Reconstructing western civilization; irreverent essays on...the history of Western civilization up to the beginning of...include goddesses, the civilizations of Mesopotamia, Sumerians...Alexander the Great, Hellenistic civilization, Rome, the period of...
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Hellenism in the Land of Israel
Magazine article from: Journal of Biblical Literature
; ...culture on the Jews in the Hellenistic era. Soon after Bickerman...familiar with many aspects of Hellenistic culture. The above seminal...appearing in Israel: Its Role in Civilization, ed. M. Davis) offered...light on a wide variety of Hellenistic influences on Jewish society...
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Lexikon des Hellenismus.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society
; ...popular reference works on the Hellenistic age Produced by Schmitt and...German scholarship devoted to Hellenistic civilization. The nearly five hundred entries...cult, and each if the major Hellenistic dynasties. These appear alongside...
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