Author : Stefan Timm
Publisher : Ugarit Verlag
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Israel zwischen den Mächten by : Stefan Timm
Download or read book Israel zwischen den Mächten written by Stefan Timm and published by Ugarit Verlag. This book was released on 2009 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some twenty articles celebrate the 65. birthday of Old Testament scholar Prof. St. Timm. Most of them focus on the Ancient Near Eastern background of the Old Testament and Ancient Israel/Palestine. Among others, C. Bender analyses the use of textiles in the realm of royal regalia. M. Gorg studies the beginnings of monolatrism in the Ancient Near East. The temple of the moon god in Rugm al-Kursi is dealt with by U. Hubner. S. Reichmann compares Ps. 104 with Akhenaten's "Great Hymn to the Sun". The Mediterranean sailors and their world as illustrated in the Book of Jonah and by Classical Greek authors are examined by U. Rutersworden. Whereas I. Cornelius is in "Search of the Goddess in Ancient Palestinian Iconography".