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Author : Stephen Langdon
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Sumerian Liturgies and Psalms written by Stephen Langdon and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen Langdon
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book ... Sumerian liturgical texts written by Stephen Langdon and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samuel Noah Kramer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226452328
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)
Download or read book The Sumerians written by Samuel Noah Kramer and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-09-17 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A readable and up-to-date introduction to a most fascinating culture” from a world-renowned Sumerian scholar (American Journal of Archaeology). The Sumerians, the pragmatic and gifted people who preceded the Semites in the land first known as Sumer and later as Babylonia, created what was probably the first high civilization in the history of man, spanning the fifth to the second millenniums B.C. This book is an unparalleled compendium of what is known about them. Professor Kramer communicates his enthusiasm for his subject as he outlines the history of the Sumerian civilization and describes their cities, religion, literature, education, scientific achievements, social structure, and psychology. Finally, he considers the legacy of Sumer to the ancient and modern world. “An uncontested authority on the civilization of Sumer, Professor Kramer writes with grace and urbanity.” —Library Journal
Author : Natan Ṿaserman
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ISBN 13 : 9789042941731
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (417 download)
Download or read book The Flood: the Akkadian Sources written by Natan Ṿaserman and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the primeval cataclysmic flood which wiped out all life on earth, save for one family, is found in different ancient Mesopotamian texts whence it reached the Biblical and Classical literary traditions. The present book systematically collects the earliest attestations of the myth of the Flood, namely all the cuneiform-written Akkadian sources - from the Old Babylonian to the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian periods, including Tablet XI of the Epic of Gilgamesh -, presenting them in a new synoptic edition and English translation which are accompanied by a detailed philological commentary and an extensive literary discussion. The book also includes a complete glossary of the Akkadian sources.
Author : Gerrit C. Vreugdenhil
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004427899
Total Pages : 507 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Psalm 91 and Demonic Menace written by Gerrit C. Vreugdenhil and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-07-13 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Psalm 91 and Demonic Menace Gerrit Vreugdenhil offers a thorough analysis of the text, structure and genre of Psalm 91. Already in its earliest interpretations, Psalm 91 has been associated with the demonic realm. The use of this psalm on ancient amulets and in magic texts calls for an explanation. Examining the psalms images of threat from a cognitive science perspective, Vreugdenhil shows that many of these terms carry associations with sorcery and magic, incantations and curses, diseases and demonic threat. The psalm takes demonic threat seriously, but also draws attention to the protection offered by JHWH. Finally, the author proposes an outline of the situational context in which Psalm 91 might have functioned.
Author : Erhard S. Gerstenberger
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 166679743X
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (667 download)
Download or read book Charting the Course of Psalms Research written by Erhard S. Gerstenberger and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-10-18 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the past several decades, Erhard Gerstenberger has been a leader in the study of the Psalms. These essays bring together some of the key contributions that both reflect on the history of interpretation and the path forward for research. Both the student and the experienced researcher will be enriched by the depth and clarity of perspective that Gerstenberger brings. Two of the essays appear here in English for the first time. Contents 1. The Lyrical Literature 2. Psalms 3. The Psalm Genres 4. Theologies in the Psalms 5. Modes of Communication with the Divine in the Hebrew Psalter 6. The Psalms and Ritual Praxis 7. Non-Temple Psalms: The Cultic Setting Revisited 8. The Psalter as Book and as Collection
Author : Andrei A. Orlov
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438455836
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Divine Scapegoats written by Andrei A. Orlov and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2015-02-10 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the paradoxical symmetry between the divine and demonic in early Jewish mystical texts. Divine Scapegoats is a wide-ranging exploration of the parallels between the heavenly and the demonic in early Jewish apocalyptical accounts. In these materials, antagonists often mirror features of angelic figures, and even those of the Deity himself, an inverse correspondence that implies a belief that the demonic realm is maintained by imitating divine reality. Andrei A. Orlov examines the sacerdotal, messianic, and creational aspects of this mimetic imagery, focusing primarily on two texts from the Slavonic pseudepigrapha: 2 Enoch and the Apocalypse of Abraham. These two works are part of a very special cluster of Jewish apocalyptic texts that exhibit features not only of the apocalyptic worldview but also of the symbolic universe of early Jewish mysticism. The Yom Kippur ritual in the Apocalypse of Abraham, the divine light and darkness of 2 Enoch, and the similarity of mimetic motifs to later developments in the Zohar are of particular importance in Orlovs consideration.
Author : F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 9788876533464
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Weep, O Daughter of Zion written by F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present study seeks to call attention to a literary genre whose existence in the Hebrew Bible, has gone largely unnoticed or at least not fully appreciated. The city lament is a genre well-known fron ancient Mesopotomia. The laments that make up this genre vividly depict and mournfully lament the destruction of some of the most important cities in Mesopotamia and their chief shrines.
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Total Pages : 1004 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Guide to Microforms in Print written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 1004 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sidney Homer
Publisher : New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813508405
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)
Download or read book A History of Interest Rates written by Sidney Homer and published by New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A History of Interest Rates, Fourth Edition presents a readable account of interest rate trends and lending practices spanning over four millennia of economic history. Filled with in-depth insights and illustrative charts and tables, this unique resource provides a broad perspective on interest rate movements - from which financial professionals can evaluate contemporary interest rate and monetary developments - and applies analytical tools, such as yield-curve averaging and decennial averaging, to the data available." "A History of Interest Rates, Fourth Edition offers a highly detailed analysis of money markets and borrowing practices in major economies. It places the rates and corresponding credit forms in context by summarizing the political and economic events and financial customs of particular times and places." "To help you stay as current as possible, this revised and updated Fourth Edition contains a new chapter of contemporary material as well as added discussions of interest rate developments over the past ten years."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Frank Moore CROSS
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674030087
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic written by Frank Moore CROSS and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation The essays contained in this book are preliminary studies directed toward a new synthesis of the history of the religion of Israel. Each study is addressed to a special and, in the authors view, unsolved problem in the description of Israel's religious development.
Author : Jaume Aurell i Cardona
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108840248
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Medieval Self-Coronations written by Jaume Aurell i Cardona and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-11 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first systematic study of the practice of royal self-coronations from late antiquity to the present.
Author : A. R. George
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789068314106
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (141 download)
Download or read book Babylonian Topographical Texts written by A. R. George and published by Peeters Publishers. This book was released on 1992 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Babylonian Topographical Texts collects for the first time all Babylonian and Assyrian texts of the first millennium B.C. that belong to what is designated the topographical genre. Much of the material is not previously published. The book is largely concerned with Babylon. Seventeen texts on this city now allow its topography to be properly understood for the first time. Another seventeen texts concern the cities of Nippur, Assur, Kish and Uruk. Also included are thirty miscellaneous texts, mostly new, which bear upon topographical matters. The text editions and translations are supplemented by a philological and topical commentary. The work is concluded with full indices, and 57 plates of cuneiform copies.
Author : Menahem Haran
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
ISBN 13 : 9780931464188
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (641 download)
Download or read book Temples and Temple-service in Ancient Israel written by Menahem Haran and published by Eisenbrauns. This book was released on 1985 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This milestone study is a thorough examination of the various cultic and social phenomena connected with the temple--activities connected with the temple's inner sphere and belonging to the priestly circle. The book also seeks to demonstrate the antiquity and the historical timing of the literary crystallization of the priestly material found in the Pentateuch. Contents: Prologue, The Israelite Temples, Temples and Open Sacred Places, The Priesthood and the Tribe of Levi, The Aaronites and the Rest of the Levitical Tribe, The Distribution of the Levitical Tribe, The Centralizations of the Cult, The Priestly Image of the Tabernacle, Grades of Sanctity in the Tabernacle, Temple and Tabernacle, The Ritual Complex Performed Inside the Temple, Incense of the Court and of the Temple Interior, The Symbols of the Inner Sanctum, The Non-Priestly Image of the Tent of Mo'ed, The Emptying of the Inner Sanctum, Pilgrim-Feasts and Family Festivals, and The Passover Sacrifice.
Author : Donna Lee Petter
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
ISBN 13 : 9783525543672
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (436 download)
Download or read book The Book of Ezekiel and Mesopotamian City Laments written by Donna Lee Petter and published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I am arguing that the Mesopotamian city lament genre likely affected the composition of the book of Ezekiel....The book of Ezekiel might be viewed as a prophetic reuse of this ancient lament genre, albeit, in a modified form, one that would suit the purposes of the exilic community."--Introduction, p. 5-6.
Author : Julia M. Asher-Greve
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
ISBN 13 : 9783525543825
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Goddesses in Context written by Julia M. Asher-Greve and published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors examine from different perspectives some of the most challenging themes in Mesopotamian religion such as gender switch of deities and changes of the status, roles and functions of goddesses. Julia M. Asher-Greve and Goodnick Westenholz incorporate recent scholarship from various disciplines into their analysis of textual and visual sources, representations in diverse media, theological strategies, typologies, and the place of image in religion and cult over a span of three millennia. Different types of syncretism (fusion, fission, mutation) resulted in transformation and homogenization of goddesses' roles and functions. The processes of syncretism (a useful heuristic tool for studying the evolution of religions and the attendant political and social changes) and gender switch were facilitated by the fluidity of personality due to multiple or similar divine roles and functions. Few goddesses kept their identity throughout the millennia. Individuality is rare in the iconography of goddesses while visual emphasis is on repetition of generic divine figures (hieros typos) in order to retain recognizability of divinity, where femininity is of secondary significance. This richly illustrated book demonstrates that goddesses were never marginalized or extrinsic and that their continuous presence in texts, cult images, rituals, and worship throughout Mesopotamian history is testimony to their powerful numinous impact. This richly illustrated book is the first in-depth analysis of goddesses and the changes they underwent from the earliest visual and textual evidence around 3000 BCE to the end of ancient Mesopotamian civilization in the Seleucid period. Goddesses in Context is a compelling contribution to Mesopotamian religion and history as well as to history, art history, history of religion and gender studies.
Author : Scott R. A. Starbuck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780884140009
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Court Oracles in the Psalms written by Scott R. A. Starbuck and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
