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Leaves from an Epigrapher's Notebook: Collected Papers in Hebrew and West Semitic Palaeography and Epigraphy

Author : Frank Moore Cross
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004369887

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Preliminary Material -- The Development of the Jewish Scripts -- The Scripts of the Dâliyeh (Samaria) Papyri -- The Palaeographical Dating of the Copper Document -- Palaeography and the Date of the Tell Faḫariyeh Bilingual Inscription -- A Papyrus Recording a Divine Legal Decision and the Root rḥq in Biblical and Near Eastern Legal Usage -- Ammonite Ostraca from Tell Ḥisbān -- Epigraphic Notes on the ʻAmmān Citadel Inscription -- Notes on the Ammonite Inscription from Tell Sīrān -- A Forgotten Seal -- The Seal of Miqnêyaw, Servant of Yahweh -- Epigraphic Notes on Hebrew Documents of the Eighth-Sixth Centuries B.C.: I. A New Reading of a Place Name in the Samaria Ostraca -- Epigraphic Notes on Hebrew Documents of the Eighth-Sixth Centuries B.C.: II. The Murabbaʻât Papyrus and the Letter Found near Yabneh-yam -- Epigraphic Notes on Hebrew Documents of the Eighth-Sixth Centuries B.C.: III. The Inscribed Jar Handles from Gibeon -- A Literate Soldier: Lachish Letter III -- Lachish Letter IV -- An Ostracon in Literary Hebrew from Ḥorvat ʻUza -- Judaean Stamps -- An Inscribed Weight from ʻArâg el-ʾEmîr -- The Hebrew Inscriptions from Sardis -- Inscriptions from Tel Seraʻ -- A Philistine Ostracon from Ashkelon -- The Cave Inscriptions from Ḫirbat Bayt Layy [Khirbet Beit Lei] -- The Stele Dedicated to Melqart by Ben-Hadad of Damascus -- Fragments of the Prayer of Nabonidus -- An Aramaic Inscription from Daskyleion -- A New Aramaic Stele from Taymāʾ -- An Aramaic Ostracon of the Third Century BCE from the Excavations in Jerusalem -- A Note on a Burial Inscription from Mount Scopus -- The Arrow of Suwar, Retainer of ʻAbday -- An Inscribed Arrowhead of the Eleventh Century BCE in the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem -- Newly Discovered Inscribed Arrowheads of the Eleventh Century BCE -- Newly Found Inscriptions in Old Canaanite and Early Phoenician Scripts -- A Phoenician Inscription from Idalion: Some Old and New Inscriptions Relating to Child Sacrifice -- The Phoenician Inscription from Brazil: A Nineteenth-Century Forgery -- An Interpretation of the Nora Stone -- Phoenicians in the West: The Early Epigraphic Evidence -- The Oldest Phoenician Inscription from Sardinia: The Fragmentary Stele from Nora -- Phoenician Incantations on a Plaque of the Seventh Century BCE from Arslan Tash in Upper Syria -- A Second Phoenician Incantation Text from Arslan Tash -- The Old Phoenician Inscription from Spain Dedicated to Hurrian Astarte -- The Pronominal Suffixes of the Third Person Singular in Phoenician -- An Ostracon in Greek Bearing the Names of the Gates of Idalion -- A Newly Published Inscription of the Persian Age from Byblos -- Jar Inscriptions from Shiqmona -- Two Offering Dishes with Phoenician Inscriptions from the Sanctuary of ʻArad -- An Old Canaanite Inscription Recently Found at Lachish -- An Inscribed Jar Handle from Raddana by Frank Moore Cross and David Noel Freedman -- An Archaic Inscribed Seal from the Valley of Aijalon [Soreq] -- Inscribed Arrowheads from the Period of the Judges by J. T. Milik and Frank Moore Cross -- The Evolution of the Proto-Canaanite Alphabet -- A Ugaritic Abecedary and the Origins of the Proto-Canaanite Alphabet -- The Origin and Early Evolution of the Alph.

The Ammonites

Author : Craig W. Tyson
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567655448

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This book investigates the archaeological, epigraphic, and biblical evidence for the course of Ammon's history, setting it squarely within the context of ancient Near Eastern imperialism. Drawing on cross-cultural parallels from the archaeology of empires, Tyson elucidates the dynamic processes by which the local Ammonite elite made the cousins of biblical Israel visible to history. Tyson explains changes in the region of Ammon during the Iron Age II, namely the increasing numbers of locally produced elite items as well as imports, growth in the use of writing for administrative and display purposes, and larger numbers of sedentary settlements; in the light of the transformative role that the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian empires played in the ancient Near East. The study also widens the conversation to consider cross-cultural examples of how empires affect peripheral societies.

Writing and Literacy in the World of Ancient Israel

Author : Christopher A. Rollston
Publisher : Society of Biblical Lit
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781589831070

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Historical Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew

Author : Robert Rezetko,Ian Young
Publisher : Society of Biblical Lit
Page : 721 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781628370461

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Historical Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew by Robert Rezetko,Ian Young Pdf

!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" html meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="content-type" body A philologically robust approach to the history of ancient Hebrew In this book the authors work toward constructing an approach to the history of ancient Hebrew that overcomes the chasm of academic specialization. The authors illustrate how cross-textual variable analysis and variation analysis advance research on Biblical Hebrew and correct theories based on extra-linguistic assumptions, intuitions, and ideologies by focusing on variation of forms/uses in the Masoretic text and variation between the Masoretic text and other textual traditions. Features: A unique approach that examines the nature of the sources and the description of their language together Extensive bibliography for further research Tables of linguistic variables and parallels

An Eye for Form”

Author : Jo Ann Hackett,Walter E. Aufrecht
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781575068879

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An Eye for Form” by Jo Ann Hackett,Walter E. Aufrecht Pdf

At the first meeting of his class in Northwest Semitic Epigraphy at Harvard, Frank Cross would inform students that one of the things each of them needed was an “eye for form.” By this, he meant the ability to recognize typological or evolutionary change in letters and scripts. Frank, like his teacher William Foxwell Albright, was a master of typological method. In fact, typology was the dominant feature of his epigraphic work, from the origins of the alphabet to the development of the scripts of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Indeed, he has written about the importance of typology itself. Because Frank Cross has so dominated the study of the ancient Near East in the last 60 years, Aufrecht once asked him what he considered his primary field of study to be. Without hesitation, he said, “Epigraphy.” It seems, therefore, that the field that he loved and to which he contributed so much is an appropriate subject for this Festschrift in his honor, which is being presented by his colleagues, friends, and former students. Included are an appreciation by Peter Machinist and a contribution by the late Pierre Bordreuil.

Tel Beth-Shemesh: A Border Community in Judah

Author : Shlomo Bunimovitz,Tzvi Lederman
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781575064536

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Tel Beth-Shemesh: A Border Community in Judah by Shlomo Bunimovitz,Tzvi Lederman Pdf

Excavations at Beth-Shemesh are actually a story within a story. On the one hand, they are the story of the archaeology of the Land of Israel in a nutshell: from the pioneering days of the Palestine Exploration Fund, through the “Golden Age” of American biblical archaeology, to current Israeli and international archaeology. On the other hand, they are the fascinating story of a border site that was constantly changing its face due to its geopolitical location in the Sorek Valley in the Shephelah—a juncture of Canaanite, Philistine, and Israelite entities and cultures. It is no wonder that two celebrated biblical border epics—Samson’s encounters with the Philistines and the Ark narrative—took real or imagined place around Beth-Shemesh. In this report, summarizing the first ten years (1990–2000) of archaeological work in the ongoing project of the renewed excavations at Tel Beth-Shemesh, the authors have strived to tell anew the story of the Iron Age people of Beth-Shemesh as exposed and interpreted. Using the best theoretical and methodological tools that modern archaeology has made available, every effort has been made to keep in view archaeology’s fundamental duty—to read the ancient people behind the decayed walls and shattered pottery vessels and bring alive their lost world. Furthermore, the story of ancient Beth-Shemesh has been written in a way that will enable scholars, students, and other interested people to learn and understand the life of the communities living at Beth-Shemesh. As a result, the book is organized in a manner different from usual archaeological site reports. The two volumes will be essential for anyone who wishes the best and latest information on this important site.

Genesis, Isaiah and Psalms

Author : Katherine Dell,Graham Davies,Yee von Koh
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004182349

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Genesis, Isaiah and Psalms by Katherine Dell,Graham Davies,Yee von Koh Pdf

Studies of Genesis, Isaiah and Psalms, key biblical texts that represent the interests of the honorand, Professor John Emerton. The comparison of biblical texts with the ancient Near East and archaeological finds; intertextual work, literary historical approaches, texts and versions and scholarly interpretations from the past are all represented.

Memory in a Time of Prose

Author : Daniel D. Pioske
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190649869

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Memory in a Time of Prose by Daniel D. Pioske Pdf

Memory in a Time of Prose investigates a deceptively straightforward question: what did the biblical scribes know about times previous to their own? Daniel D. Pioske attempts to answer this question by studying the sources, limits, and conditions of knowing that would have shaped biblical stories told about a past that preceded the composition of these writings by a generation or more. This book is comprised of a series of case studies that compare biblical references to an early Iron Age world (ca. 1175-830 BCE) with a wide range of archaeological and historical evidence from the era in which these stories are set. Pioske examines the relationship between the past disclosed through these historical traces and the past represented within the biblical narrative. He discovers that the knowledge available to the biblical scribes about this period derived predominantly from memory and word of mouth, rather than from a corpus of older narrative documents. For those Hebrew scribes who first set down these stories in prose writing, the means for knowing a past and the significance attached to it were, in short, wed foremost to the faculty of remembrance. Memory in a Time of Prose reveals how the past was preserved, transformed, or forgotten in the ancient world of oral, living speech that informed biblical storytelling.

Understanding Relations Between Scripts II

Author : Philippa M. Steele,Philip J. Boyes
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781789250954

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Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS) is a project funded by the European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 677758), and based in the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge. Understanding Relations Between Scripts II: Early Alphabets is the first volume in this series, bringing together ten experts on ancient writing, languages and archaeology to present a set of diverse studies on the early development of alphabetic writing systems and their spread across the Levant and Mediterranean during the second and first millennia BC. By taking an interdisciplinary perspective, it sheds new light on alphabetic writing not just as a tool for recording language but also as an element of culture.

The Valediction of Moses

Author : Idan Dershowitz
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783161606441

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The Valediction of Moses by Idan Dershowitz Pdf

Moses Wilhelm Shapira's infamous Deuteronomy manuscripts -- long believed to be forgeries -- are of far greater significance than ever imagined. Idan Dershowitz shows that the text preserved in these manuscripts is not based on the book of Deuteronomy. On the contrary, it is a proto-biblical book, the likes of which has never before been seen.

Times of Transition

Author : Sylvie Honigman,Christophe Nihan,Oded Lipschits
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781646021451

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Times of Transition by Sylvie Honigman,Christophe Nihan,Oded Lipschits Pdf

This multidisciplinary study takes a fresh look at Judean history and biblical literature in the late fourth and third centuries BCE. In a major reappraisal of this era, the contributions to this volume depict it as one in which critical changes took place. Until recently, the period from Alexander’s conquest in 332 BCE to the early years of Seleucid domination following Antiochus III’s conquest in 198 BCE was reputed to be poorly documented in material evidence and textual production, buttressing the view that the era from late Persian to Hasmonean times was one of seamless continuity. Biblical scholars believed that no literary activity belonged to the Hellenistic age, and archaeologists were unable to refine their understanding because of a lack of secure chronological markers. However, recent studies are revealing this period as one of major social changes and intense literary activity. Historians have shed new light on the nature of the Hellenistic empires and the relationship between the central power and local entities in ancient imperial settings, and the redating of several biblical texts to the third century BCE challenges the traditional periodization of Judean history. Bringing together Hellenistic history, the archaeology of Judea, and biblical studies, this volume appraises the early Hellenistic period anew as a time of great transition and change and situates Judea within its broader regional and transregional imperial contexts.

Cultural Contact and Appropriation in the Axial-Age Mediterranean World

Author : Baruch Halpern,Kenneth Sacks
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004194557

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Cultural Contact and Appropriation in the Axial-Age Mediterranean World by Baruch Halpern,Kenneth Sacks Pdf

Cultural Contact explores adaptation, resistance and reciprocity in Axial-Age Mediterranean exchange, a discussion begun in antiquity. Real progress requires relearning the Mediterranean as a historical system. These essays illustrate the problems such study must overcome.

Scribal Tools in Ancient Israel

Author : Philip Zhakevich
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781646021031

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Scribal Tools in Ancient Israel by Philip Zhakevich Pdf

In this book, Philip Zhakevich examines the technology of writing as it existed in the southern Levant during the Iron Age II period, after the alphabetic writing system had fully taken root in the region. Using the Hebrew Bible as its corpus and focusing on a set of Hebrew terms that designated writing surfaces and instruments, this study synthesizes the semantic data of the Bible with the archeological and art-historical evidence for writing in ancient Israel. The bulk of this work comprises an in-depth lexicographical analysis of Biblical Hebrew terms related to Israel’s writing technology. Employing comparative Semitics, lexical semantics, and archaeology, Zhakevich provides a thorough analysis of the origins of the relevant terms; their use in the biblical text, Ben Sira, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and ancient Hebrew inscriptions; and their translation in the Septuagint and other ancient versions. The final chapter evaluates Israel’s writing practices in light of those of the ancient world, concluding that Israel’s most common form of writing (i.e., writing with ink on ostraca and papyrus) is Egyptian in origin and was introduced into Canaan during the New Kingdom. Comprehensive and original in its scope, Scribal Tools in Ancient Israel is a landmark contribution to our knowledge of scribes and scribal practices in ancient Israel. Students and scholars interested in language and literacy in the first-millennium Levant in particular will profit from this volume.

The Text of the Pentateuch

Author : Sidnie White Crawford
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110467277

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The Text of the Pentateuch by Sidnie White Crawford Pdf

In the last several decades since the first publications of the biblical Dead Sea Scrolls, a revolution has occurred in the understanding of the history of the text of the Hebrew Bible during the Second Temple period. The present volume is a collection of articles documenting that revolution, written by Sidnie White Crawford over an almost thirty-year period beginning in 1990. As a member of the editorial team responsible for publishing the Qumran scrolls, the author was responsible for the critical editions of nine Deuteronomy scrolls and the four Reworked Pentateuch manuscripts; thus, her work played a critical role in the changing understanding of the textual history of the Pentateuch,especially the book of Deuteronomy and the Rewritten Bible texts. The author’s lifework is brought together here in an accessible format. While the majority of the articles are reprints, the volume will close with two major new pieces: a text-critical study of the Deuteronomic Paraphrase of the Temple Scroll and a comprehensive overview of the history of the text of the Pentateuch.

Scribes and Scrolls at Qumran

Author : Sidnie White Crawford
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467456586

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Scribes and Scrolls at Qumran by Sidnie White Crawford Pdf

The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls altered our understanding of the development of the biblical text, the history and literature of Second Temple Judaism, and the thought of the early Christian community. Questions continue to surround the relationship between the caves in which the scrolls were found and the nearby settlement at Khirbet Qumran. In Scribes and Scrolls at Qumran, Sidnie White Crawford combines the conclusions of the first generation of scrolls scholars that have withstood the test of time, new insights that have emerged since the complete publication of the scrolls corpus, and the much more complete archaeological picture that we now have of Khirbet Qumran. She creates a new synthesis of text and archaeology that yields a convincing history of and purpose for the Qumran settlement and its associated caves.