Author: Henry Creswicke RawlinsonPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 79
Book Description
A selection from the historical inscriptions of Chaldaea, Assyria, and Babylonia
Author: Henry Creswicke RawlinsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 79
Book Description
A history of art in Chaldæa & Assyria, from the Fr. of G. Perrot and C. Chipiez, tr. and ed. by W. Armstrong
Author: Georges PerrotPublisher:
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Category : Art, Assyro-Babylonian
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria
Author: Georges PerrotCursed Are You!
Author: Anne Marie KitzPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 1575068745
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 541
Book Description
This is a book about curses. It is not about curses as insults or offensive language but curses as petitions to the divine world to render judgment and execute harm on identified, hostile forces. In the ancient world, curses functioned in a way markedly different from our own, and it is into the world of the ancient Near East that we must go in order to appreciate the scope of their influence. For the ancient Near Easterners, curses had authentic meaning. Curses were part of their life and religion. They were not inherently magic or features of superstitions, nor were they mere curiosities or trifling antidotes. They were real and effective. They were employed proactively and reactively to manage life’s many vicissitudes and maintain social harmony. They were principally protective, but they were also the cause of misfortune, illness, depression, and anything else that undermined a comfortable, well-balanced life. Every member of society used them, from slave to king, from young to old, from men and women to the deities themselves. They crossed cultural lines and required little or no explanation, for curses were the source of great evil. In other words, curses were universal. Because curses were woven into the very fabric of every known ancient Near Eastern society, they emerge frequently and in a wide variety of venues. They appear on public and private display objects, on tomb stelae, tomb lintels, and sarcophagi, on ancient kudurrus and narûs. They are used in political, administrative, social, religious, and familial contexts. They are the subject of incantations. They are tools that exorcise demons and dispel disease; they ban, protect, and heal. This is the phenomenology of cursing in the ancient Near East, and this is what the present work explores.
Studies on the Text and Versions of the Hebrew Bible in Honour of Robert Gordon
Author: Geoffrey KhanPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004217304
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 459
Book Description
These essays by outstanding international scholars in honour of Robert P. Gordon cover topics ranging from accuracy and anachronism in the books of Samuel, through the theology of Psalms, ancient near eastern historiography, to ideology, philology, grammar and linguistics in the translations and versions.
Circulars
Author: Johns Hopkins UniversityPublisher:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Johns Hopkins University Circulars
Author: Johns Hopkins UniversityPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
The Johns Hopkins University Circular
Author: Johns Hopkins UniversityPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Includes University catalogues, President's report, Financial report, etc.
Aram and Israel during the Jehuite Dynasty
Author: Shuichi HasegawaPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110283484
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
The Jehuite Dynasty ruled more than ninety years (841–747 BCE) in the Kingdom of Israel, the longest dynasty in the history of the Northern Kingdom. Under the five kings of the dynasty, Israel was thrown into the arena of the regional political struggles and experienced the time of an unprecedented upheaval and then enjoyed great prosperity. The Aramaeans under Hazael and Ben-Hadad of Damascus and the Assyrians from the north Mesopotamia had great influence on the history of the dynasty. This book is the result of a comprehensive and updated historical study on this significant dynasty. By consulting all the available Assyrian, Aramaic, Hebrew, and Moabite inscriptions and recent archaeological data, this study radically evaluates the historical authenticity of the biblical text of 2 Kings and some parts of the Books of Amos and Hosea and integrates the results into the historical discussion. The study reveals the great importance of this dynasty in the history of the Northern Kingdom as a turning point in its policy toward the Neo-Assyrian Empire and will contribute toward understanding the history of Syria-Palestine in the 9th–8th centuries BCE.
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