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Author: William W. Hallo Publisher: ISBN: 9789004131057 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 0
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This reference provides access to a broad, balanced, and representative collection of Ancient Near Eastern texts that are part of the colorful background to the literature of the Hebrew Bible.
Author: William W. Hallo Publisher: ISBN: 9789004131057 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 0
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This reference provides access to a broad, balanced, and representative collection of Ancient Near Eastern texts that are part of the colorful background to the literature of the Hebrew Bible.
Author: Ewa Wasilewska Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers ISBN: 9781853026812 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 228
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This comprehensive study explores the region's 'forgotten' narratives, myths and traditions. Drawing on stories from Ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, Anatolia, Syria-Palestine and Persia, Wasilewska shows how these narratives of creation, destruction and rebirth reach to the very roots of the Biblical and Quranic Genesis.
Author: John Kaltner Publisher: SBL Press ISBN: 0884143848 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 257
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Beyond Babel provides a general introduction to and overview of the languages that are significant for the study of the Hebrew Bible and ancient Israel. Included are essays on biblical and inscriptional Hebrew, Akkadian, Northwest Semitic dialects (Ammonite, Edomite, and Moabite), Arabic, Aramaic, Egyptian, Hittite, Phoenician, postbiblical Hebrew, and Ugaritic. Each chapter in the volume shares a common format, including an overview of the language, a discussion of its significance for the Hebrew Bible, and a list of ancient sources and modern resources for further study of the language. A general introduction by John Huehnergard discusses the importance of the study of Near Eastern languages for biblical scholarship, helping to make the volume an ideal resource for persons beginning an in-depth study of the Hebrew Bible.
Author: Billie Jean Collins Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9047400917 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 647
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This book is about all aspects of man’s contact with the animal world; sacrifice, sacred animals, diet, domestication, in short, from the sublime to the mundane. Chapters on art, literature, religion and animal husbandry provide the reader with a complete picture of the complex relationships between the peoples of the Ancient Near East and (their) animals. A reference guide and key to the menagerie of the Ancient Near East, with ample original illustrations.
Author: Jens Bruun Kofoed Publisher: Eisenbrauns ISBN: 1575060949 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 314
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Jens Bruun Kofoed addresses the methodological issues that must lie behind the use of the biblical text and its validation as a source for historical information. --from publisher desscription.
Author: Theodore J. Lewis Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0190072547 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 1097
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Introductory Matters -- The History of Scholarship on Ancient Israelite Religion : A Brief Sketch -- Methodology -- El Worship -- The Iconography of Divinity : El -- The Origin of Yahweh -- The Iconography of Divinity : Yahweh -- The Characterization of the Deity Yahweh : Yahweh as Warrior and Family God -- The Characterization of the Deity Yahweh : Yahweh as King and Yahweh as Judge -- Characterization of the Deity Yahweh : Yahweh as Holy.
Author: Joseph M. Holden Publisher: Harvest House Publishers ISBN: 0736944869 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 434
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From two leading Christian apologists, here is a fascinating survey of the most important Old and New Testament archaeological discoveries through the ages. Biblical archaeology has always stirred excitement among believers and curiosity among unbelievers. The evidence dug up with a spade can speak volumes—and serve as a powerful testimony of the reliability of Scripture. Norm Geisler and Joe Holden have put together an impressive array of finds that confirm the biblical peoples and events of ages past. In a user-friendly format written in popular style, they... examine the latest finds and explain their significance include dozens of photographs provide an instructive chart of artifacts (along with fast facts) sample a variety of finds—papyri, inscriptions, scrolls, ossuaries, and more If readers are looking for just one book to cover this topic both concisely and comprehensively, this is it!
Author: Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 131711776X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 275
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Examining the evolution of kingship in the Ancient Near East from the time of the Sumerians to the rise of the Seleucids in Babylon, this book argues that the Sumerian emphasis on the divine favour that the fertility goddess and the Sun god bestowed upon the king should be understood metaphorically from the start and that these metaphors survived in later historical periods, through popular literature including the Epic of Gilgameš and the Enuma Eliš. The author’s research shows that from the earliest times Near Eastern kings and their scribes adapted these metaphors to promote royal legitimacy in accordance with legendary exempla that highlighted the role of the king as the establisher of order and civilization. As another Gilgameš and, later, as a pious servant of Marduk, the king renewed divine favour for his subjects, enabling them to share the 'Garden of the Gods'. Seleucus and Antiochus found these cultural ideas, as they had evolved in the first millennium BCE, extremely useful in their efforts to establish their dynasty at Babylon. Far from playing down cultural differences, the book considers the ideological agendas of ancient Near Eastern empires as having been shaped mainly by class — rather than race-minded elites.
Author: Todd Klutz Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 056731801X Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 278
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The category 'magic' , long used to signify an allegedly substantive type of activity distinguishable from 'religion', has nearly been dismantled by recent historical and social-scientific approaches to religious studies. While recognising and at times reinforcing this stance, the essays in this collection show that there is still much to be learned about the cultural context of early Judaism and Christianity by analysing ancient texts which either use 'magic' as a category for purposes of deviance labelling or promote behaviour of a broadly magico-religious variety. Through sustained engagement with texts ranging from Exod. 7-9 and Acts 8 to the Testament of Solomon and the Late Antique alchemical treatise known as the Cyranides, this volume focuses chiefly on materials that challenge the familiar boundaries between miracle and magic and medicine; yet it also heightens awareness of the way unsuspecting use of a sick sign (e.g. 'magic') can impede critical understanding of texts and their respective contexts of production and reception. Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement Series, Volume 245.
Author: William W. Hallo
Author: William W. Hallo
Author: Ewa Wasilewska
Author: John Kaltner
Author: Billie Jean Collins
Author: Jens Bruun Kofoed
Author: Naveen Rao
Author: Theodore J. Lewis
Author: Joseph M. Holden
Author: Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides
Author: Todd Klutz