Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical and Post-Biblical Antiquity - 4 Vol. Set

includes index and biblioraphy

Vol. I Abortion .......5 Adoption ........11 Adultery .........18 Age & the Aged ..........18 Agriculture ............27 Alcoholic Beverages ............36 Animal Husbandry ............43 Aphrodisiacs & Erotic Spells .........60 Aqueducts & Water Supply ........67 Archives .........75 Armies .........82 Art ......91 Astrology .......100 Athletics .........109 Banks & Loans .............109 Banquets .......118 Barbers & Bathing ...........127 Baths & Bathing .........136 Beggars & Alms ...........157 Bellows & Furnaces ........167 Birds .........176 Boats & Ships ....190 Bones & Objects of Bone .........199 Bottles & Glass .........208 Brobery ........217 Butchers & Meat ..........217 Calendars .......226 Camels ........236 Celibacy ..........253 Census ..............262 Childbirth & Children ........280 Cities .........290 Clothing ..........322 Communications & Messengers ..........337 Contraception & Control of Births .........358 Cosmetics .......367 Dance .............374 Vol. II Death & the Afterlife..........5 Demons...........26 Dentistry & teeth .........44 Diseases & Plagues .................63 Divination & Sortition ..............85 Divorce ...........113 Dogs.........135 Donkeys& mules............144 Doors & keys ..........152 Drama & Keys .........163 Dreams ..........189 Dwellings............215 Dyeing .............239 Education ............248 Eunuchs.............285 Fish & Fishing ............294 Food consumption ..........304 Food Production ..........330 Furniture ...........350 Games & Gambling ............365 Hair ..............381 Harbors ........395 Heating & Lighting ..............418 Horse ............433 Human Sacrifice ..............441 Vol. III Incense ........5 Infanticide & Exposure ......21 Inheritance ............33 Insects ...............42 Insects..............61 Ivory ...............86 Jewelry..................86 Kisses & Embraces.................101 Laundry & Fullers............115 laws & Crimes ............127 Leather ...............147 Libraries & books ..............157 Literacy.................190 Magic .............201 Marriage .................221 Medicine& Physicians .............250 Medium of Exchange .................274 Menstruation ..............287 Metallurgy.................300 Military technology & Tactics...............338 Milk & Milk Product ..............349 Mining ..............364 Mourning & Weeping ..........388 Music ............418 Names .................429 Nursing & wet Nurses .................459 VOl. 4 Oaths & Vows ..........5 Palaces ..........18 Perfumes ............41 Plants & Flowers .............58 Police & Prisons................73 Prostitution ...............94 Purity & Impurity .............105 Rape ..........122 Same-Sex Relations.............139 Sanitation ............153 Seals ..........181 Slavery ...........191 Spectacles .............216 Taxation ............226 Textiles ............237 Threshing & winnowing ............254 Time ..........268 Tools & Utensils..........281 Trade.......296 Trees........308 Virgins & virginity ............335 Viticulture ...........357 Wealth & poverty .............367 Weapons ..............393 Widows & orphans ................418 Wild animals & Hunting .................437

V1. A-Da.-- V2. De-H.-- V3. I-N.-- V4. O-Z.