The Jews in Pompeii, Herculaneum, Stabiae and in the Cities of Campania Felix
Author : Carlo Giordano
Publisher : Scienze e Lettere
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 50,16 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Carlo Giordano
Publisher : Scienze e Lettere
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 50,16 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Eric Moormann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 23,30 MB
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1614519188
Although there are many works dealing with Pompeii and Herculaneum, none of them try to encompass the entire spectrum of material related to its reception in popular imagination. Pompeii’s Ashes surveys a broad variety of such works, ranging from travelogues between ca. 1740 and 2010 to 250 years of fiction, including stage works, music, and films. The first two chapters provide an in-depth analysis of the excavation history and an overview of the reflections of travelers. The six remaining chapters discuss several clearly-defined genres: historical novels with pagan tendencies, and those with Christians and Jews as protagonists, contemporary adventures, time traveling, mock manuscripts, and works dedicated to Vesuvius. “Pompeii’s Ashes” demonstrates how the eternal fascination with the oldest still-running archaeological projects in the world began, developed, and continue until now.
Author : Eugene J. Dwyer
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 28,76 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Archaeology and history
ISBN : 0472117270
An intriguing look at contemporary views regarding the casts of victims from Mt. Vesuvius' eruption
Author : Salo Wittmayer Baron
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 26,97 MB
Release : 1952
Category : BLANK AUTHORITY TEXT
ISBN : 0231088396
Author : Carlo Giordano
Publisher :
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 25,29 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Campania (Italy)
ISBN :
Author : Shlomo Simonsohn
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 12,58 MB
Release : 2014-09-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 900428236X
The history of the Jews in Italy is the longest continuous one of European Jewry and lasted for more than two millennia. It started in the days of the Roman Republic and continued through the Middle Ages to Modern Times. Jewish Italy served as melting pot throughout its history, first for migrants from East to West and eventually from all over the Mediterranean littoral and beyond. Some of them moved on from Italy to other countries, while the majority stayed on in the country for generations. This volume of their history covers the first seven centuries of Jewish presence on the peninsula from the days of the Maccabees to Pope Gregory the Great. It is based on archaeological finds in Rome and elsewhere in Italy, on relevant literary and legal sources and on other records.
Author : Tasha Alexander
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 22,99 MB
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1250164753
In skillfully intertwined storylines from the dawn of the twentieth century and the heyday of the Roman Empire, Tasha Alexander's In the Shadow of Vesuvius, the latest installment to her bestselling series, brings Lady Emily and her husband to Pompeii, where they uncover a recent crime in the ancient city. Some corpses lie undisturbed longer than others. But when Lady Emily discovers a body hidden in plain sight amongst the ruins of Pompeii, she sets in motion a deadly chain of events that ties her future to the fate of a woman whose story had been lost for nearly two thousand years. Emily and her husband, Colin Hargreaves, have accompanied her dear friend Ivy Brandon on a trip to Pompeii. When they uncover a corpse and the police dismiss the murder as the work of local gangsters, Emily launches an investigation of her own. She seems to be aided by the archaeologists excavating the ruins, including a moody painter, the enigmatic site director, and a free-thinking American capable of sparring with even the Duke of Bainbridge. But each of them has secrets hiding among the ruins. The sudden appearance of a beautiful young woman who claims a shocking relationship to the Hargreaves family throws Emily’s investigation off-course. And as she struggles to face an unsettling truth about Colin’s past, it becomes clear that someone else wants her off the case—for good. Emily’s resolve to unearth the facts is unshakable. But how far below the surface can she dig before she risks burying herself along with the truth?
Author : James D. Tabor
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 29,18 MB
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1439134987
In this “compulsively readable exploration of the tangled world of Christian origins” (Publishers Weekly), religious historian James Tabor illuminates the earliest years of Jesus’ teachings before Paul shaped them into the religion we know today. This fascinating examination of the earliest years of Christianity reveals how the man we call St. Paul shaped Christianity as we know it today. Historians know almost nothing about the two decades following the crucifixion of Jesus, when his followers regrouped and began to spread his message. During this time Paul joined the movement and began to preach to the gentiles. Using the oldest Christian documents that we have—the letters of Paul—as well as other early Christian sources, historian and scholar James Tabor reconstructs the origins of Christianity. Tabor shows how Paul separated himself from Peter and James to introduce his own version of Christianity, which would continue to develop independently of the message that Jesus, James, and Peter preached. Paul and Jesus illuminates the fascinating period of history when Christianity was born out of Judaism.
Author : Shelley Hales
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 29,94 MB
Release : 2011-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0199569363
A collection of essays exploring the different ways in which the ruined city of Pompeii has been a major source of inspiration to Western imaginations. Creative and popular, as well as scholarly approaches are covered, including an interview with the novelist Robert Harris, and the volume is fully illustrated, with several images in full colour.
Author : Anna Collar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 25,17 MB
Release : 2013-12-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1107043441
Examines the relationship between social networks and religious transmission to reappraise how new religious ideas spread in the Roman Empire.