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Total Pages : 168 pages
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Download or read book Oriens antiquus written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Larissa Bonfante
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814318133
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (181 download)
Download or read book Etruscan Life and Afterlife written by Larissa Bonfante and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lively ferment in Etruscan studies, generated in part by recent archaeological discoveries and fostered by new trends in interpretation, has produced a wealth of information about the people historians traditionally considered as inaccessible. Now, scholars are reconstructing a portrait of the wealthy, sophisticated Etruscans whose territory once extended from the Po River to the Bay of Naples. Unfortunately, the wider English-speaking public has had no single resource which synthesizes these new findings and interpretations about the Etruscans. In fact, some sources continue to propagate the traditional myth of the "enigmatic and isolated Etruscans." In response, the eminent Etruscan scholar Larissa Bonfante asked seven other internationally known classicists to join her in providing this "handbook" for the non-specialist as an authoritative and readable guide to the burgeoning Etruscan scholarship. As Bonfante explains in the introductory chapter, "The Etruscans provide an excellent opportunity of turning archaeology into history: this we tried to do, in our chapters, according to our individual directions. Nancy Thomson de Grummond traces the interest in and knowledge of the Etruscans from the earliest days. Mario Torelli provides an independent account of Etruscan history, based on monuments and sources. Jean MacIntosh Turfa belies the cliche of the Etruscans' traditional 'isolation' by surveying the material evidence for their trade with the Phoenicians, Greeks, and other neighbors in the Mediterranean. Marie-Fran'oise Briguet, Friedhelm Prayon, David Tripp, and I survey Etruscan art, architecture, coinage, and daily lives, respectively, Emeline Richardson contributes what she calls a 'primer' in the Etruscan language, a basic archaeological introduction to the Etruscan language, meant to help newcomers read the inscriptions on many of the monuments illustrated and to see these with the interdisciplinary approach so characteristic of, and necessary in, Etruscan studies." The book is profusely illustrated with over 300 photos and maps. Notes and bibliographic references lead to standard texts on the Etruscans and to the more specialized literature in the field. The result is a reliable and lively volume which brings readers into the mainstream of the latest Etruscan scholarship.
Author : Jac. J. Janssen
Publisher : Brill Archive
ISBN 13 : 9789004048799
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (487 download)
Download or read book ANNUAL EGYPTOLOGICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY 1977 written by Jac. J. Janssen and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1977 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cristiano Grottanelli
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195361121
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Kings and Prophets written by Cristiano Grottanelli and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999-02-18 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays examines the respective religious and social functions of kings and prophets as they are presented in the biblical narratives. Biblical kingship is easily shown to be a specific instance of an ancient and widespread institution--sacred monarchy--that was the pivot of most state organizations throughout antiquity; prophetic authority is described as a typical institution of ancient Hebrew society. The difference between monarchy and prophecy is radical, because the former implies a hereditary power and is upheld by its subjects who feed their kings with taxes, while the latter derives its authority from allegedly direct divine inspiration, and though it is also economically dependent it is not explicitly presented as being based upon systematic exploitation. Cristiano Grottanelli interprets the rise of prophecy as a consequence of a crisis of monarchical structures at the beginning of the Iron Age, and connects it to similar phenomena attested in ancient Greek texts derived from a similar crisis. Though monarchy finally won the day in the Ancient Mediterranean in a new imperial form, the new literatures in Greek and Hebrew consonantic and alphabetic scripts shaped nonmonarchic figures to which they attributed some of the functions previously pertaining to monarchy. These new literatures, produced by two cultures that were both highly literate and organized according to nonmonarchical principles, diverged radically in their development and final outcomes. In the Hebrew tradition, monolatry and an official canon of sacred writings were the final result; the prophetic principle was thus overcome by a new ideological construction, centered upon inspired scriptures rather than upon the impromptu performances of inspired persons. In using the prophetic principle against the monarchic, the canonical texts paradoxically shaped their own authority above that of living prophets.
Download or read book Antiquus Oriens written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : N.P. Lemche
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004275606
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Early Israel written by N.P. Lemche and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-02-04 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary material /Editors EARLY ISRAEL -- REVOLUTION AS ALTERNATIVE /G.E. Mendenhall -- IMMIGRATION OR CONQUEST /A. Alt and M. Noth -- ISRAEL IN THE PERIOD OF THE JUDGES /C. H. J. de Geus -- CONCLUSION /Editors EARLY ISRAEL -- INTRODUCTION /Editors EARLY ISRAEL -- NOMADS /N.K. Gottwald's -- FARMERS AND URBAN DWELLERS /Editors EARLY ISRAEL -- EGALITARIANISM AND SEGMENTATION /Editors EARLY ISRAEL -- SOCIAL STRUCTURE IN ISRAEL IN THE PRE-NATIONAL PERIOD /Editors EARLY ISRAEL -- THE \'PERIOD OF THE JUDGES\' AND THE ALL-ISRAELITE TRADITION /Editors EARLY ISRAEL -- ANOTHER PATH? THE FORMATION OF THE ISRAELITE HISTORICAL TRADITION /Editors EARLY ISRAEL -- FROM THE LATE BRONZE AGE TO THE EARLY IRON AGE: THE ARCHEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE /Editors EARLY ISRAEL -- CONCLUSION /Editors EARLY ISRAEL -- BIBLIOGRAPHY /Editors EARLY ISRAEL -- INDICES /Editors EARLY ISRAEL.
Author : Anne Roullet
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004294880
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book The Egyptian and Egyptianizing Monuments of Imperial Rome written by Anne Roullet and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-08-24 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary material -- HISTORICAL CONDITIONS -- TYPE AND STYLE OF THE EGYPTIAN AND EGYPTIANIZING MONUMENTS OF IMPERIAL ROME -- THE SETTING OF THE EGYPTIAN AND EGYPTIANIZING MONUMENTS IN IMPERIAL ROME -- CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ -- APPENDIX I -- APPENDIX II -- APPENDIX III -- APPENDIX IV -- ADDENDA -- CAPTIONS TO THE FIGURES -- INDEX OF PROPER NAMES -- INDEX OF MUSEUMS -- Plates I-CCXXX and Plans.
Author : Mario Liverani
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801473586
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Myth and Politics in Ancient Near Eastern Historiography written by Mario Liverani and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2007-06 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays included in this volume analyze important historical texts from various regions of the Ancient Near East. The distinguished Italian historian Mario Liverani suggests that these historiographical texts were of a "true" historical nature and that their literary forms achieved their intended results. Liverani focuses on two central themes in these texts: myth and politics.There is a close connection, Liverani finds, between the writing of history and the validation of political order and political action. History defines the correct role and behavior of political leaders, especially when they do not possess the validation provided by tradition. Historical texts, he discovers, are more often the tools for supporting change than for supporting stability.Liverani demonstrates that history writing in the Ancient Near East made frequent use of mythical patterns, wisdom motifs, and literary themes in order to fulfill its audience's cultural expectations. The resulting nonhistorical literary forms can mislead interpretation, but an analysis of these forms allows the texts' sociopolitical and communicative frameworks to emerge.
Author : Alexander J. Peden
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004121126
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (211 download)
Download or read book The Graffiti of Pharaonic Egypt written by Alexander J. Peden and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first overall attempt to offer insight into more than 2800 years of ancient Egyptian and Nubian hieroglyphic and hieratic graffiti. "a valuable guide to normal life and society in Ancient Egypt."
Author : Giulia Sfameni Gasparro
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004294961
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book I culti orientali in Sicilia written by Giulia Sfameni Gasparro and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-08-24 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary material -- I CULTI EGIZÎ -- I CULTI DELL'ASIA MINORE -- IL CULTO DI MITHRA -- IL CULTO DELLA DEA SYRIA -- CULTI EGIZÎ -- CULTI DELL'ASIA MINORE -- CULTO DI MITHRA -- CULTO DELLA DEA SYRIA -- APPENDICE -- BIBLIOGRAFIA -- INDICE -- ELENCO DELLE TAVOLE -- TAVOLE I-CXXII.
Author : Michael J. Rowlands
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521251037
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Centre and Periphery in the Ancient World written by Michael J. Rowlands and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987-10-22 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collaborative volume is concerned with long-term social change. Envisaging individual societies as interlinked and interdependent parts of a global social system, the aim of the contributors is to determine the extent to which ancient societies were shaped over time by their incorporation in - or resistance to - the larger system. Their particular concern is the dependent relationship between technically and socially more developed societies with a strong state ideology at the centre and the simpler societies that functioned principally as sources of raw materials and manpower on the periphery of the system. The papers in the first part of the book are all concerned with political developments in the Ancient Near East and the notion of a regional system as a framework for analysis. Part 2 examines the problems of conceptualising local societies as discrete centres of development in the context of both the Near East and prehistoric Europe during the second millennium BC. Part 3 then presents a comprehensive analytical study of the Roman Empire as a single system showing how its component parts often relate to each other in uneven, even contradictory, ways.
Author : Morris Silver
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040035906
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Economic Structures of the Ancient Near East written by Morris Silver and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-08-28 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economic Structures of the Ancient Near East (1985) is a political economy of antiquity which applies the universal conclusions of theoretical economics to the interpretation of economic life. The first part of the book shows that the analysis of transaction costs – that is, the resources used up in exchanging ownership rights including costs of communication and of designing and enforcing contracts – provides numerous insights into the structure of the ancient economy. The role of temples as centres of commerce, inculcation of professional standards by gods, elevation of technology to the status of divine gift, religious syncretism and fetishism and many more seemingly exotic practices are comprehended as elements in a strategy to cope with high transaction costs by increasing the stock of what might be called trust capital. It is shown that similar considerations lie behind the ubiquity of diversified, multinational family firms, the prominent entrepreneurial role of high-born women, the prominence within the contractual process of publicly performed conventional gestures and recitations, and the intrusion of gifts, friendship, and other manifestations of personal economics into exchange relationships. The book goes on to examine carefully, and then reject, the view of economic historian Karl Polanyi and others that the ancient Near East lacked true markets for consumer goods and productive factors. The direct evidence of market exchange (local and long distance), occupational specialisation, supply-demand determined prices, investment in material and human capital, production for the market, and other ‘modern’ traits is uneven with respect to place and time, but nevertheless abundant. The requisite market functions demanded by Polanyi, including a market for labour (slave and free) and elaborate credit and investment markets, can be seen plainly from very early times. Finally, the book deals with the impact on the ancient Near Eastern economy of changes in economic incentives and of changes in economic policy. It becomes evident that ancient economies were capable of making profound alterations in order to take advantage of new economic opportunities. It is also shown that the ancient Near East was not static, as is usually asserted: periods of pervasive economic regulation by the state are interspersed with lengthy periods of relatively unfettered market activity and growth.
Author : Licia Romano
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783447062169
Total Pages : 804 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (621 download)
Download or read book Proceedings of the 6th International Congress of the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East: Excavations, surveys and restorations : reports on recent field archaeology in the Near East written by Licia Romano and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 2010 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: .".. 6th International Congress of the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East held in Rome on May 5th-10th, 2008 (www.6icaane.it)"--Foreword.
Author : Carol L. Meyers
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
ISBN 13 : 9780931464195
Total Pages : 776 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (641 download)
Download or read book The Word of the Lord Shall Go Forth written by Carol L. Meyers and published by Eisenbrauns. This book was released on 1983 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains fifty-two essays composed in honor of David Noel Freedman and organized around the topics: Hebrew Poetry and Prophecy, The Prose of the Hebrew Bible, History and Institutions of Israel, Northwest Semitic Epigraphy, and Other Perspectives. A bibliography of the honoree is included.
Author : Nadav Na'aman
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 1575065681
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Canaan in the Second Millennium B.C.E. written by Nadav Na'aman and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2005-06-23 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the past three decades, Nadav Na'aman has repeatedly proved that he is one of the most careful historians of ancient Canaan and Israel. With broad expertise, he has brought together archaeology, text, and the inscriptional material from all of the ancient Near East to bear on the history of ancient Israel and the land of Canaan during the second and first millenniums B.C.E. Many of his studies have been published as journal articles or notes and yet, together, they constitute one of the most important bodies of literature on the subject in recent years, particularly because of the careful attention to methodology that Na'aman always has brought to his work. Collected here are 23 essays on the Hurrians, the Egyptians and their presence in the Levant during the second millennium B.C.E., Canaanite city-states, the Amarna Letters, and the neighbors of Canaan in the north, such as Alalakh and Damascus. The essays range over such topics as scribes and language, archaeology, cultural influences, and the interrelations of the great powers during this period. The volume includes indexes of ancient personal names, place-names, and biblical references.
Author : Lukasz Niesiolowski-Spano
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134938373
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)
Download or read book The Origin Myths and Holy Places in the Old Testament written by Lukasz Niesiolowski-Spano and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Origin Myths and Holy Places in the Old Testament' examines the biblical narratives which describe the origins of holy places. It argues for the Hellenistic origin or redaction of most of these narratives. Three central questions are addressed: are there common features in biblical accounts about the foundation of places of worship; are there elements in the aetiological stories that reveal the 'real' mythology/rituals of the sanctuary; what were the circumstances of the creation of such narratives?
Author : Richard S. Hess
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
ISBN 13 : 9780931464713
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (647 download)
Download or read book Amarna Personal Names written by Richard S. Hess and published by Eisenbrauns. This book was released on 1993 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Amarna letters are foundational documents for the study of Late Bronze Age history and language in the ancient Near East. One of the most significant aspects of these letters has been the discovery of Canaanite influence in the Akkadian language of these letters. This discovery has provided a wealth of linguistic knowledge concerning that period and its influence on subsequent ages. Though much has been written about the Amarna letters, until now there has been no comprehensive study of the personal names found in the cuneiform texts from El-Amarna. Dr. Hess fills the void with this comprehensive reference tool. The main part of the book catalogs the Amarna personal names, providing necessary information for each name, including attested spellings, occurrences, identification, textual notes, and analysis. The author then offers a grammatical analysis of the names and glossaries of the seven languages attested in personal names in the letters. Glossaries of divine name and geographical name elements and an extensive bibliography complete the study. This volume is essential for research libraries and for scholars and students working with the Amarna letters or Akkadian and Northwest Semitic languages.
