A Woman Of Valor Jerusalem Ancient Near Eastern Studies In Honor Of Joan Goodnick Westenholz

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A woman of valor : Jerusalem Ancient near Eastern studies in honor of Joan Goodnick Westenholz

Author : Wayne Horowitz
Publisher : Editorial CSIC - CSIC Press
ISBN 13 : 9788400091828
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (918 download)

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Download or read book A woman of valor : Jerusalem Ancient near Eastern studies in honor of Joan Goodnick Westenholz written by Wayne Horowitz and published by Editorial CSIC - CSIC Press. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Este volumen es en honor a Joan Goodnick Westenholz, una mujer erudita que ha estado toda su vida involucrada en investigaciones centradas sobre todo en la cultura de Mesopotamia. Ha desarrollado sus estudios en importantes centros de American Assyriology en Filadelfia y en Chicago. También ha estado trabajando en la ciudad Santa de Jerusalén donde recientemente se retiró, como conservadora jefe del Museo de las Tierras Bíblicas durante dos décadas, ampliando sus conocimientos sobre diferentes culturas que se asentaron en la región en los tiempos bíblicos. En 2006 fue galardonada con el Premio de Conservadores, otorgado por el Ministerio Israelí de Cultura, por su contribución al conocimiento de la historia del pueblo de Israel en el contexto de las culturas del Antiguo Oriente Medio y del este del Mediterráneo.

A Woman of Valor

Author : Wayne Horowitz
Publisher : Editorial CSIC - CSIC Press
ISBN 13 : 9788400091330
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (913 download)

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Download or read book A Woman of Valor written by Wayne Horowitz and published by Editorial CSIC - CSIC Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Critical Approaches to Ancient Near Eastern Art

Author : Brian A. Brown
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 1614510350
Total Pages : 842 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (145 download)

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Book Synopsis Critical Approaches to Ancient Near Eastern Art by : Brian A. Brown

Download or read book Critical Approaches to Ancient Near Eastern Art written by Brian A. Brown and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-12-13 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume assembles more than 30 articles focusing on the visual, material, and environmental arts of the Ancient Near East. Specific case studies range temporally from the fourth millennium up to the Hellenistic period and geographically from Iran to the eastern Mediterranean. Contributions apply innovative theoretical and methodological approaches to archaeological evidence and critically examine the historiography of the discipline itself. Not intended to be comprehensive, the volume instead captures a cross-section of the field of Ancient Near Eastern art history as its stands in the second decade of the twenty-first century. The volume will be of value to scholars working in the Ancient Near East as well as others interested in newer art historical and anthropological approaches to visual culture.

Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-Witchcraft Rituals

Author : Tzvi Abusch
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004318550
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-Witchcraft Rituals written by Tzvi Abusch and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-04-18 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mesopotamian anti-witchcraft rituals and prescriptions prescribe ceremonies and treatments for dispelling witchcraft, destroying the witch, and protecting and curing the patient. The Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-Witchcraft Rituals aims to present a reconstruction and critical editions of this body of texts.

The First Ninety Years

Author : Lluís Feliu
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501503693
Total Pages : 515 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book The First Ninety Years written by Lluís Feliu and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is dedicated to Miguel Civil in celebration of his 90th birthday. Civil has been one of the most influential scholars in the field of Sumerian studies over the course of his long career. This anniversary presents a welcome occasion to reflect on some aspects of the field in which he has been such a driving force.

Marbeh Ḥokmah

Author : Shamir Yonah
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 1575063611
Total Pages : 1052 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Marbeh Ḥokmah written by Shamir Yonah and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-12-10 with total page 1052 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The title, Marbeh Ḥokmah, meaning “increases wisdom,” reflects the fact that Victor Avigdor Hurowitz was a scholar who increased wisdom and who continues to increase the wisdom of scholars throughout the world even after his untimely death at the age of 64. The book was edited by five of Professor Hurowitz’s colleagues: Profs. Shamir Yona and Mayer I. Gruber of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Edward L. Greenstein of Bar-Ilan University, Peter Machinist of Harvard University, and Shalom M. Paul of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The two-volume collection contains 49 groundbreaking essays written by 53 distinguished authors from various institutions of higher learning in Israel and around the world. The authors include Victor’s teachers, colleagues, and students, and the essays deal with a great variety of subjects. The breadth of subject matter featured in Marbeh Ḥokmah is a most appropriate tribute to Victor Avigdor Hurowitz, whose published scholarship encompassed a wide variety of fields of interest pertaining to the study of the Hebrew Bible and the ancient Near East: Wisdom Literature, Psalmody, prophecy and prophets, the priesthood, eschatology, historiography, ancient inscriptions, medieval Hebrew biblical exegesis, religious rites, building and architecture, temples, the art of warfare, Semitic philology, Sumerian proverbs, epigraphy, rhetoric and stylistics, poetry, lamentations, the interconnections between Hebrew Scripture and the ancient Near East, the cultures of ancient Egypt and ancient Mesopotamia, innerbiblical parallels, and many other subjects.

The Origin and Character of God

Author : Theodore J. Lewis
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190072547
Total Pages : 1097 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Origin and Character of God written by Theodore J. Lewis and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 1097 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Poetic Astronomy in the Ancient Near East

Author : Jeffrey L. Cooley
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 1575066939
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Poetic Astronomy in the Ancient Near East written by Jeffrey L. Cooley and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern science historians have typically treated the sciences of the ancient Near East as separate from historical and cultural considerations. At the same time, biblical scholars, dominated by theological concerns, have historically understood the Israelite god as separate from the natural world. Cooley’s study, bringing to bear contemporary models of science history on the one hand and biblical studies on the other hand, seeks to bridge a gap created by 20th-century scholarship in our understanding of ancient Near Eastern cultures by investigating the ways in which ancient authors incorporated their cultures’ celestial speculation in narrative. In the literature of ancient Iraq, celestial divination is displayed quite prominently in important works such as Enuma Eliš and Erra and Išum. In ancient Ugarit as well, the sky was observed for devotional reasons, and astral deities play important roles in stories such as the Baal Cycle and Shahar and Shalim. Even though the veneration of astral deities was rejected by biblical authors, in the literature of ancient Israel the Sun, Moon, and stars are often depicted as active, conscious agents. In texts such as Genesis 1, Joshua 10, Judges 5, and Job 38, these celestial characters, these “sons of God,” are living, dynamic members of Yahweh’s royal entourage, willfully performing courtly, martial, and calendrical roles for their sovereign. The synthesis offered by this book, the first of its kind since the demise of the pan-Babylonianist school more than a century ago, is about ancient science in ancient Near Eastern literature.

Being a Man

Author : Ilona Zsolnay
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317280547
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Being a Man written by Ilona Zsolnay and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-08-05 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being a Man is a formative work which reveals the myriad and complex negotiations for constructions of masculine identities in the greater ancient Near East and beyond. Through a juxtaposition of studies into Neo-Assyrian artistic representations and omens, biblical hymns and narrative, Hittite, Akkadian, and Indian epic, as well as detailed linguistic studies on gender and sex in the Sumerian and Hebrew languages, the book challenges traditional understandings and assumed homogeneity for what it meant "to be a man" in antiquity. Being a Man is an indispensable resource for students of the ancient Near East, and a fascinating study for anyone with an interest in gender and sexuality throughout history.

Losing One's Head in the Ancient Near East

Author : Rita Dolce
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351657097
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Losing One's Head in the Ancient Near East written by Rita Dolce and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Ancient Near East, cutting off someone’s head was a unique act, not comparable to other types of mutilation, and therefore charged with a special symbolic and communicative significance. This book examines representations of decapitation in both images and texts, particularly in the context of war, from a trans-chronological perspective that aims to shed light on some of the conditions, relationships and meanings of this specific act. The severed head is a “coveted object” for the many individuals who interact with it and determine its fate, and the act itself appears to take on the hallmarks of a ritual. Drawing mainly on the evidence from Anatolia, Syria and Mesopotamia between the third and first millennia BC, and with reference to examples from prehistory to the Neo-Assyrian Period, this fascinating study will be of interest not only to art historians, but to anyone interested in the dynamics of war in the ancient world.

Making Pictures of War

Author : Laura Battini
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1784914045
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (849 download)

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Download or read book Making Pictures of War written by Laura Battini and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2016-07-10 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together the main discussions that took place at an international conference on the iconology of war in the ancient Near East, a subject never addressed at an international meeting before.

The Magical Ceremony Maqlû

Author : Tzvi Abusch
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004291709
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book The Magical Ceremony Maqlû written by Tzvi Abusch and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Akkadian series Maqlû is the most important magical text against witchcraft from Mesopotamia. This new edition of the standard text contains a synoptic edition of all manuscripts, a composite text in transliteration, an annotated transcription and translation.

Intolerance, Polemics, and Debate in Antiquity

Author : George H. van Kooten
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900441150X
Total Pages : 615 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Intolerance, Polemics, and Debate in Antiquity written by George H. van Kooten and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Intolerance, Polemics, and Debate in Antiquity politico-cultural, philosophical, and religious forms of critical conversation in the ancient Near Eastern, Biblical, Graeco-Roman, and early-Islamic world are discussed. The contributions enquire into the boundaries between debate, polemics, and intolerance, and address their manifestations in both philosophy and religion.

Babylonian Poems of Pious Sufferers

Author : Takayoshi Oshima
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 9783161533891
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (338 download)

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Download or read book Babylonian Poems of Pious Sufferers written by Takayoshi Oshima and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takayoshi Oshima analyses the two most important Babylonian wisdom texts: Ludlul Bel Nemeqi (also known as the Babylonian Job or the Babylonian Righteous Sufferer) and the so-called Babylonian Theodicy. On the basis of the hitherto published as well as newly available, unpublished cuneiform manuscripts, the author establishes a new critical text for each poem and gives an English translation. He offers detailed philological and critical notes to the texts, discussing both the textual and the interpretive issues evoked by individual words and passages. In addition, however, each poem is preceded by a lengthy discussion of its origins, intention, and plot, as well as by more general considerations of its cultural and historical background, including short but important observations on the relationship to Old Testament wisdom literature.

The Witchcraft Series Maqlû

Author : Tzvi Abusch
Publisher : SBL Press
ISBN 13 : 1628370858
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (283 download)

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Download or read book The Witchcraft Series Maqlû written by Tzvi Abusch and published by SBL Press. This book was released on 2015-03-15 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new reconstruction and translation of the Maqlû text The Akkadian series Maqlû, “Burning,” is one of the most significant and interesting magical texts from the Ancient Near East. The incantations and accompanying rituals are directed against witches and witchcraft and ctually represent a single complex ceremony. The ceremony was performed during a single night and into the following morning at the end of the month Abu (July/August), a time when spirits were thought to move back and forth between the netherworld and the world of the living. Features: English translation of approximately 100 incantations and rituals Annotated transcription Introduction places the series in historical context and shows how it is a product of a complex literary and ceremonial development.

The Royal Inscriptions of Sennacherib, King of Assyria (704–681 BC), Part 1

Author : A. Kirk Grayson
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 1575066793
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book The Royal Inscriptions of Sennacherib, King of Assyria (704–681 BC), Part 1 written by A. Kirk Grayson and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2012-09-17 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Royal Inscriptions of Sennacherib, King of Assyria (704–681 BC), Part 1 (Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period 3/1) provides reliable, up-to-date editions of thirty-eight historical inscriptions of Sennacherib. The texts edited in RINAP 3/1, which comprise approximately a sixth of the Sennacherib known corpus of inscriptions, were inscribed on clay cylinders, clay prisms, stone tablets, and stone steles from Nineveh; describe his many victories on the battlefield; and record numerous construction projects at Nineveh, including the city’s walls and the “Palace Without a Rival.” Each text edition (with its English translation) is supplied with a brief introduction containing general information, a catalogue containing basic information about all exemplars, a commentary containing further technical information and notes, and a comprehensive bibliography. RINAP 3/1 also includes: (1) a general introduction to the reign of Sennacherib, his military campaigns, his building activities at Nineveh, the corpus of inscriptions, previous studies, and dating and chronology; (2) translations of the relevant passages of several Mesopotamian chronicles and kinglists; (3) several photographs of objects inscribed with texts of Sennacherib; (4) indices of museum and excavation numbers and selected publications; and (5) indices of proper names (Personal Names; Geographic, Ethnic, and Tribal Names; Divine, Planet, and Star Names; Gate, Palace, Temple, and Wall Names; and Object Names). The RINAP Project is under the direction of G. Frame (University of Pennsylvania) and is supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Hittite Texts and Greek Religion

Author : Ian Rutherford
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019259995X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Hittite Texts and Greek Religion written by Ian Rutherford and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-23 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our knowledge of ancient Greece has been transformed in the last century by an increased understanding of the cultures of the Ancient Near East. This is particularly true of ancient religion. This book looks at the relationship between the religious systems of Ancient Greece and the Hittites, who controlled Turkey in the Late Bronze Age (1400-1200 BC). The cuneiform texts preserved in the Hittite archives provide a particularly rich source for religious practice, detailing festivals, purification rituals, oracle-consultations, prayers, and myths of the Hittite state, as well as documenting the religious practice of neighbouring Anatolian states in which the Hittites took an interest. Hittite religion is thus more comprehensively documented than any other ancient religious tradition in the Near East, even Egypt. The Hittites are also known to have been in contact with Mycenaean Greece, known to them as Ahhiyawa. The book first sets out the evidence and provides a methodological paradigm for using comparative data. It then explores cases where there may have been contact or influence, such as in the case of scapegoat rituals or the Kumarbi-Cycle. Finally, it considers key aspects of religious practices shared by both systems, such as the pantheon, rituals of war, festivals, and animal sacrifice. The aim of such a comparison is to discover clues that may further our understanding of the deep history of religious practices and, when used in conjunction with historical data, illuminate the differences between cultures and reveal what is distinctive about each of them.