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The expansion of the Iranian peoples in first centuries 1st millennium BCE coincides with creation and further development cavalry warfare western Eurasia, as well pastoral nomadic life-style which dominated Great Steppe for millennia to come. mounted warriors replaced light chariots Bronze Age battlefields required perfect horsemanship however application recurved, double reflex. composite bow...

Dirven’s contribution deals with an episode narrated in the Diaries which has not obtained deserved attention from scholars and whose implications concerning religious life of late Babylon are extremely interesting. In 133 BC a boatman entered claimed to be messenger goddess Nanāya. He began preach street was welcome by enthusiast crowd citizens. Finally, his popularity open conflict Temples’ a...

what is known as 'Arabian Medicine"' (p. VII). Recent research, however, shows more and more that one cannot speak of a medieval Jewish medicine proper. Jewish physicians studied the Arabic medical works which are based on the Galenic medical tradition. A good example is Maimonides, who according to Jewish scholars, made such a great contribution to medieval medicine. But it now clear that he w...

The so-called Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) used the hadith mentioning that “the slave-girl will give birth to her master” to justify its renewal of sexual slavery. This hadith is talking about signs before the end of the world, so it could be interpreted by the same Temple theology technique that has been used in the biblical book of Revelation, which is also about the end of the world. “...

the geographic location of the elamite terrain which lies in parts of today's khuzestan caused a middle-man-role for this region situated in between water-ways leading to the head of the persian gulf and iranian plateau and mesopotamia. in addition to the fact that this territory, possessing several rivers, was very fertile, the reality that of one of the most important iranian trade-route...