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In the Shadow of Bezalel. Aramaic, Biblical, and Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Honor of Bezalel Porten

Author : Alejandro F. Botta
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004240841

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In the Shadow of Bezalel. Aramaic, Biblical, and Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Honor of Bezalel Porten by Alejandro F. Botta Pdf

Twenty nine scholars from Israel, Europe and the Americas came together to honor and celebrate Prof. Bezalel Porten's (Emeritus, Dept. of History of the Jewish People, Hebrew University of Jerusalem) academic career. Covering a wide variety of topics within Aramaic, Biblical, and ancient Near Eastern Studies, In the Shadow of Bezalel offers new insights and proposals in the areas of Aramaic language, paleography, onomastica and lexicography; ancient Near Eastern legal traditions, Hebrew Bible, and social history of the Persian period.

Elephantine Revisited

Author : Margaretha Folmer
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781646022083

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Elephantine Revisited by Margaretha Folmer Pdf

The Judean community at Elephantine has long fascinated historians of the Persian period. This book, with its stellar assemblage of important scholarly voices, provides substantive new insights and approaches that will advance the study of this well-known but not entirely understood community from fifth-century BCE Egypt. Since Bezalel Porten’s pioneering Archives from Elephantine, published in 1968, the discourse on the subject of the community of Elephantine during the Persian period has changed considerably, due to new data from excavations, the discovery and publication of previously unknown texts, and original scholarly insights and avenues of inquiry. Running the gamut from archaeological to linguistic investigations and encompassing legal, literary, religious, and other aspects of life in this Judean community, this volume stands at a crossroads of research that extends from Hebrew Bible studies to the history of early Jewish communities. It also features fourteen new Aramaic ostraca from Aswan. The volume will appeal to students and scholars of the Hebrew Bible and ancient Judaism, as well as to a wider audience of Egyptologists, Semitists, and specialists in ancient Near Eastern studies. In addition to the editor, the contributors to this volume include Annalisa Azzoni, Bob Becking, Alejandro F. Botta, Lester L. Grabbe, Ingo Kottsieper, Reinhard G. Kratz, André Lemaire, Hélène Nutkowicz, Beatrice von Pilgrim, Cornelius von Pilgrim, Bezalel Porten, Ada Yardeni, and Ran Zadok. Moreover, a video recording of an interview conducted with Porten on his long career in Elephantine studies accompanies the book through a link on the Eisenbrauns website.

Historical and Biblical Israel

Author : Reinhard G. Kratz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191044496

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Historical and Biblical Israel by Reinhard G. Kratz Pdf

At the center of this book lies a fundamental yet unanswered question: under which historical and sociological conditions and in what manner the Hebrew Bible became an authoritative tradition, that is, holy scripture and the canon of Judaism as well as Christianity. Reinhard G. Kratz answers this very question by distinguishing between historical and biblical Israel. This foundational and, for the arrangement of the book, crucial distinction affirms that the Israel of biblical tradition, i.e. the sacred history (historia sacra) of the Hebrew Bible, cannot simply be equated with the history of Israel and Judah. Thus, Kratz provides a synthesis of both the Israelite and Judahite history and the genesis and development of biblical tradition in two separate chapters, though each area depends directly and inevitably upon the other. These two distinct perspectives on Israel are then confronted and correlated in a third chapter, which constitutes an area intimately connected with the former but generally overlooked apart from specialized inquiries: those places and "archives" that either yielded Jewish documents and manuscripts (Elephantine, Al-Yahudu, Qumran) or are associated conspicuously with the tradition of the Hebrew Bible (Mount Gerizim, Jerusalem, Alexandria). Here, the various epigraphic and literary evidence for the history of Israel and Judah comes to the fore. Such evidence sometimes represents Israel's history; at other times it reflects its traditions; at still others it reflects both simultaneously. The different sources point to different types of Judean or Jewish identity in Persian and Hellenistic times.

Individuals and Institutions in the Ancient Near East

Author : Uri Gabbay,Shai Gordin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781501514661

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Individuals and Institutions in the Ancient Near East by Uri Gabbay,Shai Gordin Pdf

This volume honors Ran Zadok's work by focusing on his sustained interest in Mesopotamian social history. It brings together a rich array of scholarship on ancient names, deities, individuals, and institutions, from Persepolis to the Levant. Building on Zadok's intellectual concerns, this book includes contributions that expand our understanding of the diverse tapestry of the peoples who inhabited the Ancient Near East.

New Aramaic Papyri from Elephantine in Berlin

Author : James D. Moore
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004505568

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New Aramaic Papyri from Elephantine in Berlin by James D. Moore Pdf

The famous German excavations between 1906 and 1908 of Elephantine Island in Egypt produced some of the most important Aramaic sources for understanding the history of Judeans and Arameans living in 5th century BCE Egypt under Persian occupation. Unknown to the world, many papyri fragments from those excavations remained uncatalogued in the Berlin Museum. In New Aramaic Papyri from Elephantine in Berlin James D. Moore edits the remaining legible Aramaic fragments, which belong to letters, contracts, and administrative texts. To view supplementary material from the volume go here.

Using Ostraca in the Ancient World

Author : Clementina Caputo,Julia Lougovaya
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110712957

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Using Ostraca in the Ancient World by Clementina Caputo,Julia Lougovaya Pdf

Throughout Egypt’s long history, pottery sherds and flakes of limestone were commonly used for drawings and short-form texts in a number of languages. These objects are conventionally called ostraca, and thousands of them have been and continue to be discovered. This volume highlights some of the methodologies that have been developed for analyzing the archaeological contexts, material aspects, and textual peculiarities of ostraca.

Jewish Aramaic Poetry from Late Antiquity

Author : Laura Suzanne Lieber
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004365896

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Jewish Aramaic Poetry from Late Antiquity by Laura Suzanne Lieber Pdf

In Jewish Aramaic Poetry from Late Antiquity, Laura Suzanne Lieber offers annotated translations of sixty-nine poems written between the 4th and 7th century C.E., along with commentary and introductions.

Vision, Narrative, and Wisdom in the Aramaic Texts from Qumran

Author : Mette Bundvad,Kasper Siegismund
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004413733

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Vision, Narrative, and Wisdom in the Aramaic Texts from Qumran by Mette Bundvad,Kasper Siegismund Pdf

The Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls from Qumran have attracted increasing interest in recent years. These texts predate the “sectarian” Dead Sea scrolls, and they are contemporary with the youngest parts of the Hebrew Bible. They offer a unique glimpse into the situation before the biblical canons were closed. Their highly creative Jewish authors reshaped and rewrote biblical traditions to cope with the concerns of their own time. The essays in this volume examine this fascinating ancient literature from a variety of different perspectives. The book grew out of an international symposium held at the University of Copenhagen in August 2017.

The Textual History of the Bible from the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Biblical Manuscripts of the Vienna Papyrus Collection

Author : Ruth A. Clements,Russell Fuller,Armin Lange,Paul D. Mandel
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004511705

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The Textual History of the Bible from the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Biblical Manuscripts of the Vienna Papyrus Collection by Ruth A. Clements,Russell Fuller,Armin Lange,Paul D. Mandel Pdf

Biblical manuscripts from the Dead Sea and the Cairo Genizah have added immeasurably to our knowledge of the textual history of the Hebrew Bible. The papers collected in this volume compare the evidence of the biblical DSS with manuscripts from the Vienna Papyrus Collection, connected with the Cairo Genizah, as well as late ancient evidence from diverse contexts. The resulting picture is one of a dialectic between textual plurality and fixity: the eventual dominance of the consonantal Masoretic Text over the textual plurality of the Second Temple period, and the secondary diversification of that standardized text through scribal activity.

Making a Case

Author : Sara J. Milstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190911829

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Making a Case by Sara J. Milstein Pdf

Outside of the Bible, all of the known Near Eastern law collections were produced in the third to second millennia BCE, in cuneiform on clay tablets, and in major cities in Mesopotamia and in the Hittite Empire. None of the major sites in Syria that have yielded cuneiform tablets has borne even a fragment of a law collection, even though several have produced ample legal documentation. Excavations at Nuzi have also turned up numerous legal documents, but again, no law collection. Even Egypt has not yielded a collection of laws. As such, the biblical texts that scholars regularly identify as law collections represent the only "western," non-cuneiform expressions of the genre in the ancient Near East, produced by societies not known for their political clout, and separated in time from "other" collections by centuries. Making a Case: The Practical Roots of Biblical Law challenges the long-held notion that Israelite and Judahite scribes either made use of "old" law collections or set out to produce law collections in the Near Eastern sense of the genre. Instead, what we call "biblical law" is closer in form and function to another, oft-neglected Mesopotamian genre: legal-pedagogical texts. During their education, Mesopotamian scribes studied a variety of legal-oriented school texts, including sample contracts, fictional cases, short sequences of laws, and legal phrasebooks. When biblical law is viewed in the context of these legal-pedagogical texts from Mesopotamia, its practical roots in a set of comparable legal exercises begin to emerge.

A Political History of the Arameans

Author : K. Lawson Younger Jr.
Publisher : SBL Press
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781628370843

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A Political History of the Arameans by K. Lawson Younger Jr. Pdf

An up-to-date analysis of the history of the ancient Near East and the Arameans K. Lawson Younger Jr. presents a political history of the Arameans from their earliest origins to the demise of their independent entities. The book investigates their tribal structures, the development of their polities, and their interactions with other groups in the ancient Near East. Younger utilizes all of the available sources to develop a comprehensive picture of this complex, yet highly important, people whose influence and presence spanned the Fertile Cresent. Features: The best, recent understanding of tribal political structures, aspects of mobile pastoralism, and models of migration A regional rather than a monolithic approach to the rise of Aramean polities Thorough integration of the complex relationships and interactions of the Arameans with the Luwians, the Assyrians, the Israelites, and others

The Aramaeans in Ancient Syria

Author : Herbert Niehr
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004229433

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The Aramaeans in Ancient Syria by Herbert Niehr Pdf

The historical and cultural role of the Aramaeans in ancient Syria can hardly be overestimated. Thus The Aramaeans in Ancient Syria gives precise and up-to-date information on different aspects of Aramaean culture. To that end, history, society, economy and law, language and script, literature, religion, art and architecture of the Aramaean kingdoms of Syria from their beginnings in the 11 century B.C. until their end at approximately 720 B.C. are covered within the handbook. The wide survey of Aramaean culture in Syria is supplemented by overviews on the Aramaeans in Assyria, Babylonia, Phoenicia, Palestine, Egypt, North Arabia and on the Aramaean heritage in the Levant.

Open-Mindedness in the Bible and Beyond

Author : Marjo Korpel,Lester L. Grabbe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567663795

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Open-Mindedness in the Bible and Beyond by Marjo Korpel,Lester L. Grabbe Pdf

The contributions to this volume reflect upon changing paradigms within biblical scholarship, and in how biblical scholarship is taught. Taken together, they offer a multifaceted and informative indication of how open-mindedness in one's approach can yield fascinating results across the study of the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible. The range in topic of the contributions is exemplified in the difference between the first chapter, which works from the personal anecdote of the changing opinion of its author to make a wider point about models for Pentateuchal formation, and the third chapter, which comments on the current state of the study of ancient Israel in universities today. Other contributions include; an essay on the subject of space as a social construct in Isaiah 24-27; civil courage and whether the Bible allows room for protest; the question of monotheism in Persian Judah; the historical Ezra, and the telling of the story of Joseph (Genesis 50: 15-21) in children's Bibles in the Netherlands. The contributors include Hugh Williamson, Ehud Ben Zvi, Rainer Albertz, Karel von der Toorn, and Christoph Uehlinger.

'Like 'Ilu Are You Wise'

Author : H. H. Hardy,Joseph Lam,Eric D. Reymond
Publisher : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-15
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781614910763

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'Like 'Ilu Are You Wise' by H. H. Hardy,Joseph Lam,Eric D. Reymond Pdf

This volume honors Dennis G. Pardee, Henry Crown Professor of Hebrew Studies in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago and one of the preeminent experts in Northwest Semitic languages and literatures, particularly Ugaritic studies. The thirty-seven essays by colleagues and former students reflect the wide range of Professor Pardee's research interests and include, among other topics, new readings of inscriptions, studies of poetic structure, and investigations of Late Bronze Age society.

Becoming Diaspora Jews

Author : Karel van der Toorn
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300249491

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Becoming Diaspora Jews by Karel van der Toorn Pdf

Based on a previously unexplored source, this book transforms the way we think about the formation of Jewish identity This book tells the story of the earliest Jewish diaspora in Egypt in a way it has never been told before. In the fifth century BCE there was a Jewish community on Elephantine Island. Why they spoke Aramaic, venerated Aramean gods besides Yaho, and identified as Arameans is a mystery, but a previously little explored papyrus from Egypt sheds new light on their history. The papyrus shows that the ancestors of the Elephantine Jews came originally from Samaria. Due to political circumstances, they left Israel and lived for a century in an Aramean environment. Around 600 BCE, they moved to Egypt. These migrants to Egypt did not claim a Jewish identity when they arrived, but after the destruction of their temple on the island they chose to deploy their Jewish identity to raise sympathy for their cause. Their story—a typical diaspora tale—is not about remaining Jews in the diaspora, but rather about becoming Jews through the diaspora.