With the growing proliferation of literature concerning the social world of the Hebrew Bible, scholars continue to face the challenge of a proper understanding of ancient Israel's economies. Portrayals of Economic Exchange in the Book of Kings is the first monographic study to use an anthropological approach to examine the nature of the economic life behind the biblical text. Through Karl Polanyi's paradigm of exchange as a methodological control, this book synthesizes Semitic philology with related fields of Levantine archaeology and modern ethnography. With this interdisciplinary...
With the growing proliferation of literature concerning the social world of the Hebrew Bible, scholars continue to face the challenge of a proper unde...
On the art of medicine, or de Arte, embodies as perhaps no other ancient text the full flower of the sophistic movement of the fifth century BCE. It is a rhetorical epideixis in which forensic oratory, philosophy, and medicine are woven into an ambitious display of sophistic polymathy. Unlike much previous scholarship, however, this book does not dismiss de Arte as "merely" rhetorical. Its analysis of the author's philosophical and medical views reveals that he strove to promote a consistent and rationally grounded system capable of responding to theoretical and practical...
On the art of medicine, or de Arte, embodies as perhaps no other ancient text the full flower of the sophistic movement of the fifth cen...
A father should be the image that all other men are measured in the eyes of his daughter. This book is designed to open up discussions between the daughter in her teenage years and is becoming an adulthood. Strong and meaningful conversations between fathers and daughters breakdown and falter because there is not a focus on discussing the simple things in life. Small conversations, which continually build on the self-esteem and self-efficacy of the young woman leaving home, will create a thin space that will allow the relationship between the father and his daughter to remain intact after she...
A father should be the image that all other men are measured in the eyes of his daughter. This book is designed to open up discussions between the dau...
We are in a society that is constantly on the move. We want what we want, and we want it right now without any exceptions. The first thing we should grab in the beginning of our days is a word from the Lord. The desire of most believers is to have time set apart from the hustle and bustle of the day. Consider This on This Day will allow you to take the first few moments of your morning reading a text, and then discover new applications for overcoming the stresses of the daily grind. All this will take is for you to test one week of the Bible lessons contained within to find new avenues to...
We are in a society that is constantly on the move. We want what we want, and we want it right now without any exceptions. The first thing we should g...
