Selected by Choice as an" Outstanding Academic Book of 1996" and now extensively revised,
the Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible, co-published by Eerdmans and Brill, is …

This volume deals with the religious practices of the family in the ancient Babylonian, Syrian,
and Israelite civilizations. On the basis of a wealth of documents from both the private and …

This book is the fruit of a project sponsored by the Netherlands Organisation for the Advancement
of Pure Research ZWO and carried out at the Free University in Amsterdam. Originally …

The subject of this book is ritual behaviour, in particular of groups with a distinctive religious,
ethnic or other identity which use rituals to pursue strategic ends ad intra and ad extra. Five …

What follows is more in the nature of a dream report than in the style of a scholarly study. On
the basis of the available evidence and the secondary literature—a selection of which is …

Religious pluralism, though often regarded as a specifically modern phenomenon, was not
unknown in antiquity. The romantic view of ancient cultures as corporate collectivities …

Contemporary theories of personhood tend to distinguish between the inner self of human
individuals and the social or public self they project to the outer world. The two entertain a …

Considering the nature of its subject, it is unlikely that the study of religion, whether pursued
from a historical or a comparative perspective, will ever become the model of dispassionate …

Toorn, K. van der: Sin and Sanction in Israel and Mesopotamia. A Comparative Study. Assen:
Van Gorcum 1985. VIII, 252 S., 9 Taf. gr. 8-= Studia Semitica Neerlandica, 22. Kart. hfl. 45,-.…