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Fakta om judendom
Judendomen är en monoteistisk religion, men vad betyder det? Och vad är kosher, vad betyder ortodox och hur firas sabbat? Det och mycket mer får läsaren veta i den här boken. Här s ...
Fakta om islam
Vad menas med halal och vad betyder Allah? Varför är staden Mekka så viktig inom islam, och hur firas id a-fitr? Det och mycket mer får läsaren veta i den här boken. Här står också ...
Guds moral
Varför är lidande så utbrett och varför drabbar det så ojämnt? Hur kommer det sig att lidandet har en sådan fundamental plats i skapelsen? Varför är vissa människor onda? Kan vem s ...
Little Foxes
First published in 1866, ‘Little Foxes’ is a form of self-help book by renowned author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Organised into seven different sections including ‘Irritability’, ‘Sel ...
Rabbi Marcus Ehrenpreis obesvarade kärlek
”Vi föddes in i det judiska, både du och jag. Du när så många judiska vägar fortfarande syntes öppna, jag när så många judiska vägar hade stängts. Du när så mycket fanns att bryta ...
Grekisk mytologi
"Fascinerande läsning" Bibliotekstjänst Möt gudar, hjältar och monster - med överdådiga illustrationer! Först fanns Kaos. Från Kaos steg Moder Jord fram och födde titaner och cykl ...
Octavia
Rooma, keisari Nero ja vuosi 62 - kauhun vuosi monien aikalaisten ja jälkipolvienkin silmissä. Tuon vuoden kohtalokkaisiin hetkiin keskittyy Octavia, ainoa meille säilynyt roomalai ...
Tracing Your Jewish Ancestors
Rosemary Wenzerul's lively and informative guide to researching Jewish history will be absorbing reading for anyone who wants to find out about the life of a Jewish ancestor. In a ...
Leva eller överleva
Vi lever i en tid av oro och rädsla, och vi är många som upplever att sorgen som alltid finns där djupt inom oss nu kommer upp till ytan. Sorg är svårt, men kan det också vara hopp ...
Jewish Lives
Jewish Lives presents the life-stories of ten individual Jews who immigrated to Britain between 1750 and 1950, based on actual genealogical research. Their life-stories, enriched b ...
The Knights Hospitaller
The Knights of St John evolved during the Crusades from a monastic order providing hostels for Christian pilgrims visiting the Holy Land. The need to provide armed escorts to the p ...
Archaeology in the 'Land of Tells and Ruins'
Recently, a travel account and 700 photographs came to light by the hand of Leo Boer, a former student of the École Biblique et Archéologique Française in Jerusalem who, at the age ...
Locating the Sacred
Ritual happens in distinct places – in temples, in caves, along pilgrimage routes – and religious activities there incorporate a diverse set of objects such as holy water, cult sta ...
Signals of Belief in Early England
This volume will throw new light on the intellect of the earliest English - the way they thought, the way they viewed the world, and the way they viewed worlds other than this. Pre ...
Anglo-Saxon Somerset
The county of Somerset cannot lay claim to have been an Anglo-Saxon kingdom like Kent or Sussex, but nevertheless it has a history as a distinct region which can be traced to the s ...
Gods and Garments
Textiles comprise a vast and wide category of material culture and constitute a crucial part of the ancient economy. Yet, studies of classical antiquity still often leave out this ...
The Tomb of Pharaoh’s Chancellor Senneferi at Thebes (TT99)
Senneferi was the chancellor of the king in Thebes (modern Luxor) in the reign of Thutmose III (c. 1430 BC). His large but badly damaged tomb lies in the hill of Sheikh Abdel Qurna ...
Britain's Medieval Episcopal Thrones
This book is the first major investigation of a subject of seminal importance in the study of church history and archaeology. The two stone thrones, at Wells and Durham, the three ...
Defining the Sacred
Religion is a phenomenon that is inseparable from human society. It brings about a set of emotional, ideological and practical elements that are pervasive in the social fabric of a ...
The Southern Transjordan Edomite Plateau and the Dead Sea Rift Valley
Burton MacDonald presents an in-depth study of the archaeology and history of human presence over the past five-six thousand years in the southern segment of the Transjordan/Edomit ...
Accused
The image of the witch - crook-nosed, unpleasant of disposition and with a penchant for harming her neighbours - is well established in the popular imagination. For hundreds of yea ...
God's Generals
It is one of the more startling facts of military history that the founders of three of the four 'great religions'—Judaism, Buddhism, and Islam—were also accomplished field general ...
Fight the Good Fight
The Second World War challenged many of the concepts that had provided stability and unity in the world. As totalitarian regimes in Europe and Asia attempted to impose their world ...
The Jihadist Threat
This timely and controversial book examines the international and domestic threats to the West from Jihadism. It joins the dots in the Middle East, Asia and Africa and explains wha ...
Islam
Islam räknas som världens näst största religion. Bara i Sverige identifierar sig nästan en halv miljon människor på olika sätt som muslimer. I denna introduktion till islam present ...