Unexplored Syria
Unexplored Syria

Author: Richard F. Burton

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2023-05-07

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 3382196506

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Unexplored Syria
Unexplored Syria

Author: Richard Francis Burton

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-06-28

Total Pages: 437

ISBN-13: 1108052037

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Published in 1872, this unusual two-volume guide explores the geography, natural history, politics and culture of Syria's remote provinces.

The Religion of the Nabataeans
The Religion of the Nabataeans

Author: J.F. Healey

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2015-08-27

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9004301488

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The history of the Nabataean Kingdom of Hellenistic-Roman times, centred on Petra, is now well known, but until the publication of this book, no monograph has been devoted to Nabataean religion, known to us principally from inscriptions in Nabataean Aramaic, iconography, archaeology and Greek literary texts. After a critical survey of the sources, the author analyses systematically the information on the individual gods worshipped by the Nabataeans, including a detailed illustrated account of temples and iconography. A further major section discusses religious themes: aniconism, henotheism, death-cult and the divinisation of kings. In a final chapter, Nabataean religion is considered in relation to Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The book will be of particular interest to historians of religion in the Graeco-Roman Near East and to Semitic epigraphists.