Ancient Place Names In The Holy Land

Download Ancient Place Names In The Holy Land full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Ancient Place Names In The Holy Land ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

Ancient Place Names in the Holy Land

Author : Yoel Elitsur
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Ancient Place Names in the Holy Land by : Yoel Elitsur

Download or read book Ancient Place Names in the Holy Land written by Yoel Elitsur and published by Eisenbrauns. This book was released on 2004 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That many ancient toponyms in the Holy Land have survived for thousands of years, right up to modern times, is a remarkable and unique phenomenon, unparalleled in neighboring countries, such as Egypt, Mesopotamia, or Asia Minor. Preserved toponymy provides a basis for research in the historical geography of the country and is also of major importance for studies in the history of Hebrew and Aramaic, being a kind of ancient "recording" of an archaic linguistic inventory. In addition, it has many implications for a wide variety of other scholarly fields, such as Bible studies, Rabbinics, Qumran and Samaritan studies, early Christianity, Arabic and Islam. This reserve of preserved place-names is therefore frequently consulted and used by scholars for their purposes. Surprisingly, however, despite the importance of this subject, there have been very few attempts to "put things in order," and for many years there have been no rules that would help to understand the changes that occur in toponyms. Accordingly, the prevailing situation in the field of historical geography is one of near-anarchy; lacking hard and fast rules, scholars could find support for their identification of an ancient toponym in any somewhat similar Arabic name. In order to break this vicious circle of conjectures founded on dubious linguistic assumptions, producing "preservation laws" themselves provide an alleged basis for historical identification, and so on, Elitzur has tried, first and foremost, to lay down objective criteria for the selection of positive identifications. On this basis, he has built up a corpus of 177 toponyms representing positive or almost-positive identifications, upon which this study is based. Sixty of these toponyms are then reviewed in depth, tracing their documentation in all languages, throughout recorded history; in the process, the author has tried to locate and analyze whatever changes occurred and when. The linguistic conclusions from the material follow, arranged according to the standard layout of grammar books. Innovative conclusions and ideas in the context of historical geography emerged in the course of the study are listed alphabetically in the last part of the volume.

California Place Names

Author : Erwin Gustav Gudde
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis California Place Names by : Erwin Gustav Gudde

Download or read book California Place Names written by Erwin Gustav Gudde and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1960 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Cities That Built the Bible

Author : Robert R. Cargill
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062366750
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (623 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Cities That Built the Bible by : Robert R. Cargill

Download or read book The Cities That Built the Bible written by Robert R. Cargill and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many, the names Bethlehem, Babylon, and Jerusalem are known as the setting for epic stories from the Bible featuring rustic mangers, soaring towers, and wooden crosses. What often gets missed is that these cities are far more than just the setting for the Bible and its characters—they were instrumental to the creation of the Bible as we know it today. Robert Cargill, Assistant Professor of Classics and Religious Studies at the University of Iowa, is an archeologist, Bible scholar, and host of numerous television documentaries, such as the History Channel series Bible Secrets Revealed. Taking us behind-the-scenes of the Bible, Cargill blends archaeology, biblical history, and personal journey as he explores these cities and their role in the creation of the Bible. He reveals surprising facts such as what the Bible says about the birth of Jesus and how Mary’s Virgin Birth caused problems for the early church. We’ll also see how the God of the Old Testament was influenced by other deities, that there were numerous non-biblical books written about Moses, Jacob, and Jesus in antiquity, and how far more books were left out of the Bible than were let in during the messy, political canonization process. The Cities That Built the Bible is a magnificent tour through fourteen cities: the Phoenicia cities of Tyre, Sidon, and Byblos, Ugarit, Nineveh, Babylon, Megiddo, Athens, Alexandria, Jerusalem, Qumran, Bethlehem, Nazareth, and Rome. Along the way, Cargill includes photos of artifacts, dig sites, ruins, and relics, taking readers on a far-reaching journey from the Grotto of the Nativity to the battlegrounds of Megiddo, from the towering Acropolis of Athens to the caves in Qumran where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered. An exciting adventure through time, The Cities That Built the Bible is a fresh, fascinating exploration that sheds new light on the Bible.

Pictorial Library of Bible Lands

Author : Todd Bolen
Publisher : Kregel Academic & Professional
ISBN 13 : 9780825424144
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (241 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Pictorial Library of Bible Lands by : Todd Bolen

Download or read book Pictorial Library of Bible Lands written by Todd Bolen and published by Kregel Academic & Professional. This book was released on 2004-03-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most complete collection of high resolution Bible Land images available! Perfect for worship, class study, or personal Bible study. Presented in standard graphic file formats for easy access. Classroom and non-profit permissions included. Site licensing available.

Seeking out the Land: Land of Israel Traditions in Ancient Jewish, Christian and Samaritan Literature (200 BCE - 400 CE)

Author : Ze'ev Safrai
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004334823
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Seeking out the Land: Land of Israel Traditions in Ancient Jewish, Christian and Samaritan Literature (200 BCE - 400 CE) by : Ze'ev Safrai

Download or read book Seeking out the Land: Land of Israel Traditions in Ancient Jewish, Christian and Samaritan Literature (200 BCE - 400 CE) written by Ze'ev Safrai and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-05-07 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeking out the Land describes the study of the Holy Land in the Roman period and examines the complex connections between theology, social agenda and the intellectual pursuit. Holiness as a theological concept determines the intellectual agenda of the elite society of writers seeking to describe the land, as well as their preoccupation with its physical aspects and their actual knowledge about it. Ze'ev Safrai succeeds in examining all the ancient monotheistic literature, both Jewish and Christian, up to the fourth century CE, and in demonstrating how all the above-mentioned factors coalesce into a single entity. We learn that in both religions, with all their various subgroups, the same social and religious factors were at work, but with differing intensity.

Zondervan Atlas of the Bible

Author : Carl G. Rasmussen
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310521262
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (15 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Zondervan Atlas of the Bible by : Carl G. Rasmussen

Download or read book Zondervan Atlas of the Bible written by Carl G. Rasmussen and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the lands of the Bible and the history of scripture with unprecedented clarity. This major revision of the Gold Medallion Award-winning Zondervan NIV Atlas of the Bible is a visual feast that will help you experience the geography and history of Scripture with unprecedented clarity. The first section of the Atlas introduces the "playing board" of biblical history. The next section, arranged historically, begins with Eden and traces the historical progression of the Old and New Testaments. It concludes with chapters on the history of Jerusalem, the disciplines of historical geography, and the most complete and accurate listing and discussion of place-names found in any atlas. Unique features include: Stunning multidimensional and three-dimensional maps Over 100 new relevant-to-topic images Revised engaging text Innovative chronological charts and graphics A complete geographical dictionary and index available for in-depth studies The Zondervan Atlas of the Bible is destined to become a favorite guide to biblical geography for students of the Bible. This accessible and complete resource will assist you as you enter into the world of the Bible as never before.

The Transformation of Biblical Proper Names

Author : Joze Krasovec
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0567452247
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (674 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Transformation of Biblical Proper Names by : Joze Krasovec

Download or read book The Transformation of Biblical Proper Names written by Joze Krasovec and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-03-08 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the transmission we encounter various transformations of biblical proper names. The basic phonetic relationship between Semitic languages on the one hand and non-Semitic languages, like Greek and Latin, on the other hand, is so complex that it was hardly possible to establish a unified tradition in writing biblical proper names within the Greek and Latin cultures. Since the Greek and Latin alphabets are inadequate for transliteration of Semitic languages, authors of Greek and Latin Bibles were utter grammatical and cultural innovators. In Greek and Latin Bibles we note an almost embarrassing number of phonetic variants of proper names. A survey of ancient Greek and Latin Bible translations allows one to trace the boundary between the phonetic transliterations that are justified within Semitic, Greek, and Latin linguistic rules, and those forms that transgress linguistic rules. The forms of biblical proper names are much more stable and consistent in the Hebrew Bible than in Greek, Latin and other ancient Bible translations. The inexhaustible wealth of variant pronunciations of the same proper names in Greek and Latin translations indicate that Greek and Latin translators and copyists were in general not fluent in Hebrew and did therefore not have sufficient support in a living Hebrew phonetic context. This state affects personal names of rare use to a far greater extent than the geographical names, whose forms are expressed in the oral tradition by a larger circle of the population.

A Description of the East and Some Other Countries

Author : Richard Pococke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (7 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis A Description of the East and Some Other Countries by : Richard Pococke

Download or read book A Description of the East and Some Other Countries written by Richard Pococke and published by . This book was released on 1745 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Interpreting Israel's Scriptures

Author : Matthieu Richelle
Publisher : Hendrickson Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1619709589
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (197 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Interpreting Israel's Scriptures by : Matthieu Richelle

Download or read book Interpreting Israel's Scriptures written by Matthieu Richelle and published by Hendrickson Publishers. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many readers find exegeting a passage from the Old Testament to be a mysterious process. How should one begin? What methods should one use? Written in a pragmatic style, Interpreting Israel's Scriptures guides the reader by offering concrete methods for exegesis that are illustrated by numerous examples and accompanied by well-chosen references to secondary sources. This English translation of the 2012 original French version of Richelle's book has been expanded and revised and has been reorganized to have a tripartite structure: the making of the text, the various facets of the text, and "the reader in front of the text." The book is designed for use in exegesis courses or for personal study, and it is designed to be used both by students who know Hebrew and by those who do not. The book explores a variety of themes relevant for exegesis, including poetry literary genre, literary context, geographical context, historical context, structure, narrative analysis, intertextuality, and reception history. For those who know Hebrew, the book also includes chapters on translation, textual criticism, and compositional criticism. Finally, this English edition has two new chapters: one on feminist and gender studies, and one on postcolonial criticism.

Identifying the Stones of Classical Hebrew

Author : Ephraim S. Ayil
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900467800X
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Identifying the Stones of Classical Hebrew by : Ephraim S. Ayil

Download or read book Identifying the Stones of Classical Hebrew written by Ephraim S. Ayil and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-08-26 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the translation of the Septuagint in the 3rd century BCE, scholars have attempted to identify the stones that populate the biblical text. This study rejects the long-standing reliance on ancient translations for identifying biblical stones. Despite the evident contradictions and historical inconsistencies, scholars traditionally presumed these translations to be reliable. By departing from this approach, this volume presents a novel synthesis of comparative linguistics and archeogemological data. Through rigorous analysis of valid cognates, it establishes correlations between Hebrew stone names and their counterparts in ancient languages, corresponding to known mineral species. This methodological shift enables a more accurate identification of stones mentioned in biblical texts, thus recovering their true historical context. The research not only advances our understanding of biblical mineralogy but also provides a fresh perspective on the material culture of the Ancient Levant, offering valuable insights for scholars and laymen, linguists and archaeologists alike.

Israel Biblical Sites Bible Companion

Author : Dr. Todd M. Fink
Publisher : Selah Book Press
ISBN 13 : 1944601325
Total Pages : 947 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (446 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Israel Biblical Sites Bible Companion by : Dr. Todd M. Fink

Download or read book Israel Biblical Sites Bible Companion written by Dr. Todd M. Fink and published by Selah Book Press. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 947 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives you eyes to see what most people don't. It uncovers the riches and treasures of the Holy Land, so you can experience and be transformed by it. At each biblical site, this book will provide you with information about the location, historical background, places of interest, Bible verses, Bible teaching, a faith lesson, and a place for journaling and note-taking. This book will bring the Holy Land to life as you understand more fully the biblical context in which it took place.

A Descriptive Geography and Brief Historical Sketch of Palestine

Author : Yehoseph Schwarz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (324 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis A Descriptive Geography and Brief Historical Sketch of Palestine by : Yehoseph Schwarz

Download or read book A Descriptive Geography and Brief Historical Sketch of Palestine written by Yehoseph Schwarz and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Basic Cartography for Students and Technicians

Author : R. W. Anson
Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann
ISBN 13 : 9780750627023
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (27 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Basic Cartography for Students and Technicians by : R. W. Anson

Download or read book Basic Cartography for Students and Technicians written by R. W. Anson and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 1984 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names

Author : John Everett-Heath
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192602543
Total Pages : 1876 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names by : John Everett-Heath

Download or read book The Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names written by John Everett-Heath and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-19 with total page 1876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique and informative dictionary explores the history, meanings, and origin of place names around the world. In over 11,000 entries it covers an enormous geographical range, including continents, countries, islands, cities, mountains, rivers, and much more. Key historical facts are incorporated into each entry, as well as a record of the place name in the local language for an accurate and comprehensive account. For this fifth edition, 134 entirely new entries have been added, including Byzantine Empire, Lac qui Parle, Nasr, Sauk City, and Yekaterinogradskaya. Existing entries have also been fully updated to reflect recent socio-political and geographical changes, most notably in Eswatini and Northern Macedonia. In addition to the entries themselves, the dictionary contains invaluable supplementary content to support the text. There is a glossary of foreign word elements which appear in place names, as well as a list of personalities and leaders who have influenced the naming of places around the world.

The Zondervan Encyclopedia of the Bible, Volume 4

Author : Merrill C. Tenney
Publisher : Zondervan Academic
ISBN 13 : 0310876990
Total Pages : 1805 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (18 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Zondervan Encyclopedia of the Bible, Volume 4 by : Merrill C. Tenney

Download or read book The Zondervan Encyclopedia of the Bible, Volume 4 written by Merrill C. Tenney and published by Zondervan Academic. This book was released on 2010-08-10 with total page 1805 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised edition. Volume 4 of 5. The Zondervan Encyclopedia of the Bible has been a classic Bible study resource for more than thirty years. Now thoroughly revised, this new five-volume edition provides up-to-date entries based on the latest scholarship. Beautiful full-color pictures supplement the text, which includes new articles in addition to thorough updates and improvements of existing topics. Different viewpoints of scholarship permit a wellrounded perspective on significant issues relating to doctrines, themes, and biblical interpretation. The goal remains the same: to provide pastors, teachers, students, and devoted Bible readers a comprehensive and reliable library of information. • More than 5,000 pages of vital information on Bible lands and people • More than 7,500 articles alphabetically arranged for easy reference • Hundreds of full-color and black-and-white illustrations, charts, and graphs • 32 pages of full-color maps and hundreds of black-and-white outline maps for ready reference • Scholarly articles ranging across the entire spectrum of theological and biblical topics, backed by the most current body of archaeological research • 238 contributors from around the world

Baal, St. George, and Khidr

Author : Robert D. Miller II
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 1646020219
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (46 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Baal, St. George, and Khidr by : Robert D. Miller II

Download or read book Baal, St. George, and Khidr written by Robert D. Miller II and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Western tradition, St. George is known as the dragon slayer. In the Middle East, he is called Khidr (“Green One”), and in addition to being a dragon slayer, he is also somehow the prophet Elijah. In this book, Robert D. Miller II untangles these complicated connections and reveals how, especially in his Middle Eastern guise, St. George is a reincarnation of the Canaanite storm god Baal, another “Green One” who in Ugaritic texts slays dragons. Combining art history, theology, and archeology, this multidisciplinary study demystifies the identity of St. George in his various incarnations, laying bare the processes by which these identifications merged and diverged. Miller traces the origins of this figure in Arabic and Latin texts and explores the possibility that Middle Eastern shrines to St. George lie on top of ancient shrines of the Canaanite storm god Baal. Miller examines these holy places, particularly in modern Israel and around Mount Hermon on the Syrian-Lebanese-Israeli border, and makes the convincing case that direct continuity exists from the Baal of antiquity to the St. George/Khidr of Christian lore. Convincingly argued and thoroughly researched, this study makes a unique contribution to such diverse areas as ancient Near Eastern studies, Roman history and religion, Christian hagiography and iconography, Quranic studies, and Arab folk religion.

Brill's Companion to Ancient Geography

Author : Serena Bianchetti
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004284710
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Brill's Companion to Ancient Geography by : Serena Bianchetti

Download or read book Brill's Companion to Ancient Geography written by Serena Bianchetti and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-11-24 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brill's Companion to Ancient Geography edited by S. Bianchetti, M. R. Cataudella, H. J. Gehrke is the first collection of studies on historical geography of the ancient world that focuses on a selection of topics considered crucial for understanding the development of geographical thought. In this work, scholars, all of whom are specialists in a variety of fields, examine the interaction of humans with their environment and try to reconstruct the representations of the inhabited world in the works of ancient historians, scientists, and cartographers. Topics include: Eudoxus, Dicaearchus, Eratosthenes, Hipparchus, Agatharchides, Agrippa, Strabo, Pliny and Solinus, Ptolemy, and the Peutinger Map. Other issues are also discussed such as onomastics, the boundaries of states, Pythagorism, sacred itineraries, measurement systems, and the Holy Land.