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_Axial_Civilizations and_World_History (Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture)
[ebook_store ebook_id=”6462″] The overarching theme of the book is the historical meaning of the Axial Age, commonly defined as a period of several centuries around the middle of the last millennium BCE, and its cultural innovations. The civilizational patterns that grew out of this exceptionally creative phase are a particularly rewarding theme for comparative analysis.…
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_Historical_Dictionary of the_Tamils (Historical Dictionaries of Peoples and Cultures)
The cultural heritage of the Tamils dates back two thousand years. As a language, Tamil has existed since the pre-Christian era, around the same time as the early classical languages Hebrew and Sankrit. The first book on Tamil grammar, the Tolkappiyam, was written around the fifth century BCE. Today, Tamil cuisine has captured the imagination of…