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Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Oriens antiquus written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 : 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.
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 : Poul Jørgen Riis
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Book Rating : 4.:/5 (483 download)
Download or read book Oriens Proximus Antiquus. Two Recent Surveys of Phoenician Civilization written by Poul Jørgen Riis and published by . This book was released on 1963 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Nadav Na'aman
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
ISBN 13 : 1575061139
Total Pages : 426 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 Eisenbrauns. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 426 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 : 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 : 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 : Maria Cannata
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004406808
Total Pages : 840 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Three Hundred Years of Death written by Maria Cannata and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Three Hundred Years of Death: The Egyptian Funerary Industry in the Ptolemaic Period, Maria Cannata discusses how necropolises and funerary priests, as well as the mummification, funeral, burial, and the deceased’s mortuary cult, were organised in Ptolemaic Egypt.
Author : Thomas L. Thompson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317543424
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)
Download or read book Biblical Narrative and Palestine's History written by Thomas L. Thompson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern biblical scholarship's commitment to the historical-critical method in its efforts to write a history of Israel has created the central and unavoidable problem of writing an objective and critical history of Palestine through the biblical literature with the methods of Biblical Archaeology. 'Biblical Narrative and Palestine's History' brings together key essays on historical method and the archaeology and history of Palestine. The essays employ comparative and formalistic techniques to illuminate the allegorical and mythical in Old Testament narrative traditions from Genesis to Nehemiah. In so doing, the volume presents a detailed review of central and radical changes in both our understanding of biblical traditions and the archaeology and history of Palestine. The study offers an analysis of Biblical narrative as rooted in ancient Near Eastern literature since the Bronze Age.
Author : Lluís Feliu
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501503677
Total Pages : 507 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)
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 507 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.
Author : James K. Hoffmeier
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019976123X
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Israel in Egypt written by James K. Hoffmeier and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999-03-18 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars of the Hebrew Bible have in the last decade begun to question the historical accuracy of the Israelite sojourn in Egypt, as described in the book of Exodus. The reason for the rejection of the exodus tradition is said to be the lack of historical and archaeological evidence in Egypt. Those advancing these claims, however, are not specialists in the study of Egyptian history, culture, and archaeology. In this pioneering book, James Hoffmeier examines the most current Egyptological evidence and argues that it supports the biblical record concerning Israel in Egypt.
