Haggai and Zechariah 1-8, Volume 25B in the acclaimed Anchor Bible part of the Scripture known as the Minor Prophets, were written during a critical period in Israel's history, the momentous return of the Jews from Babylonian exile. Following the con...

This volume completes the immensely learned three-volume "A History of Religious Ideas". Eliade examines the movement of Jewish thought out of ancient Eurasia, the Christian transformation of the Mediterranean area and Europe, and the rise and diffus...

In volume 2 of this monumental work, Mircea Eliade continues his magisterial progress through the history of religious ideas. The religions of ancient China, Brahmanism and Hinduism, Buddha and his contemporaries, Roman religion, Celtic and German re...

Preface 1. In the Beginning... : Magico-Religious Behavior of the Paleanthropians 2. The Longest Revolution: The Discovery of Agriculture – Mesolithic and Neolithic 3. The Mesopotamian Religions 4. Religious Ideas and Political Crises in Ancient Egy...