The Cult Of Aššur

Author : G. Dr. van Driel
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004354593

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The Cult of Aššur by G. Dr. van Driel Pdf

Author : Steven Winford Holloway
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004123288

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Aššur is King! Aššur is King! by Steven Winford Holloway Pdf

Through sustained analysis of texts and visual sources, this volume traces the checkered career of Neo-Assyrian religious interaction with subject polities of Western Asia through both punitive measures and calculated diplomatic patronage.

Author : Karel van der Toorn,Bob Becking,Pieter Willem van der Horst
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 1006 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802824919

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Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible by Karel van der Toorn,Bob Becking,Pieter Willem van der Horst Pdf

The Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible (DDD) is the single major reference work on the gods, angels, demons, spirits, and semidivine heroes whose names occur in the biblical books. Book jacket.

Author : Wilfred G. Lambert
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1575060043

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Wisdom, Gods and Literature by Wilfred G. Lambert Pdf

This collection of essays composed by an international array of friends and colleagues typifies the career accomplishments and scholarly endeavors of W. G. Lambert.

Author : Troels Pank Arbøll
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-25
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789004436084

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Medicine in Ancient Assur by Troels Pank Arbøll Pdf

In Medicine in Ancient Assur Troels Pank Arbøll offers a microhistorical study of a single exorcist named Kiṣir-Aššur who practiced medical and magical healing in the ancient city of Assur (modern northern Iraq) in the 7th century BCE. The book provides the first detailed analysis of a healer’s education and practice in ancient Mesopotamia based on at least 73 texts assigned to specific stages of his career. By drawing on a microhistorical framework, the study aims at significantly improving our understanding of the functional aspects of texts in their specialist environment. Furthermore, the work situates Kiṣir-Aššur as one of the earliest healers in world history for whom we have such details pertaining to his career originating from his own time.

Author : Barbara N. Porter
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 0871692082

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Images, Power, and Politics by Barbara N. Porter Pdf

The Assyrians have usually been charcterized as the strongmen of the ancient Near East, controlling their empire largely through military force, terror, and intimidatin. The new interpretation of Esarhaddon's reign offered here, hwever, suggests that his success in dealing with conquered Babylonia lay in his masterful use of non-violent tools of government: public works programs, royal public appearnces, and especially the use of documents which presented different images of the king and his policies to different national audiences. Traces of these techniques in the policies of earlier Assyrian kings suggest that the Assyrians had long used such techniques, as well as terror, to control their empire. This study also prposes some new approaches to reading Assyrian royal inscriptions. It suggests, for example, that Assyrian building documents, although often buried in foundaitons, wer first read to contemporary audiences and were primarily designed for them. An analysis of subtle differences in Esarhaddon's Babylon inscriptions suggests that variants may be clues to the identificaiton of different intended audiences for texts which were once thought of as duplicates. This book combines documentary and archeological evidence to propose a new interpretation of Esarhaddon's reign based onc lose reading of texts. it also proposes a new, more complex model of the techniques by which Assyria succeeded in governing her empire.

Author : Oded Lipschits,Gary N. Knoppers,Manfred Oeming
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 617 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781575066493

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Judah and the Judeans in the Achaemenid Period by Oded Lipschits,Gary N. Knoppers,Manfred Oeming Pdf

In April, 2008, an international colloquium was held at the University of Heidelberg—the fourth convocation of a group of scholars (with some rotating members) who gathered to discuss the status of Judah and the Judeans in the exilic and postexilic periods. The goal of this gathering was specifically to address the question of national identity in the period when many now believe this very issue was in significant foment and development, the era of the Persian/Achaemenid domination of the ancient Near East. This volume contains most of the papers delivered at the Heidelberg conference, considering the matter under two rubrics: (1) the biblical evidence (and the diversity of data from the Bible); and (2) the cultural, historical, social, and environmental factors affecting the formation of national identity. Contributors: K. Schmid, J. Schaper, A. C. Hagedorn, C. Nihan, J. Middlemas, D. Rom-Shiloni, J. Wöhrle, Y. Dor, K. Southwood, D. N. Fulton, P.-A. Beaulieu, L. E. Pearce, D. Redford, A. Lemaire, J. F. Quack, B. Becking, R. G. Kratz, O. Tal, J. Blenkinsopp, R. Albertz, J. L. Wright, D. S. Vanderhooft, M. Oeming, and A. Kloner. Earlier volumes in the series of conferences are: Judah and the Judeans in the Neo-Babylonian Period, Judah and the Judeans in the Persian Period, and Judah and the Judeans in the in the Fourth Century B.C.E.

Author : Julia Krul
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004364943

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The Revival of the Anu Cult and the Nocturnal Fire Ceremony at Late Babylonian Uruk by Julia Krul Pdf

In The Revival of the Anu Cult, Julia Krul reconstructs the rise of the sky god Anu at Late Babylonian Uruk (ca. 480-100 B.C.) and offers an analysis of the yearly fire ceremony at the Anu temple, the Bīt Rēš.

Author : Mehmet Işıklı,Birol Can,Mehmet Işikli
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443881548

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International Symposium on East Anatolia—South Caucasus Cultures by Mehmet Işıklı,Birol Can,Mehmet Işikli Pdf

The Southern Caucasus is a region of great historical, cultural and strategic importance, which means that it has become an indispensable research field for most of the social sciences, particularly archaeology. However, despite its rich potential, research in the areas of modern-day Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Nakhichevan, North-western Iran and North-eastern Turkey has been inadequate when compared with other important culture basins such as Mesopotamia and the Mediterranean. In October 2012, Atatürk University in Erzurum, North-eastern Anatolia, Turkey, with the patronage of the Eurasian Silk Road Universities Consortium (ESRUC), hosted a Symposium of academics from more than 120 science and education institutions around the world to discuss opinions and share information about cultures in this region from its earliest times to the Middle Ages, within the scope of Ancient History, Archaeology, Art History, and Ethno-archaeology. This two volume publication is a compilation of 75 articles, which were evaluated and selected by an Academic Committee, from contributors who presented their academic papers at the Symposium.

Author : Gösta Werner Ahlström,Steven Winford Holloway,Lowell K. Handy
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Bible
ISBN : 9781850755258

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The Pitcher is Broken by Gösta Werner Ahlström,Steven Winford Holloway,Lowell K. Handy Pdf

This is a volume of tributes and essays in memory of Gsta W. Ahlstrm, Professor of Old Testament in the Divinity School and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Department of the University of Chicago. Nineteen essays written by former students and colleagues deal with the history and archaeology of Iron Age Palestine and the ancient Near East, the Deuteronomistic History, and the history of Old Testament studies. Six tributes read at his memorial service, his final bibliography and a list of the dissertations he chaired combine to yield a montage of the scholar as teacher, character, and friend.

Author : Paul-Alain Beaulieu
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004496804

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The Pantheon of Uruk During the Neo-Babylonian Period by Paul-Alain Beaulieu Pdf

This book is about the pantheon of the Babylonian city of Uruk, between the 9th and 5th centuries BC. It is a careful analysis of the archive of the Eanna temple in Uruk, the sanctuary of the goddess Ishtar, containing well over 8,000 cuneiform tablets in the Akkadian language. The tablets date in their majority to the Neo-Babylonian and early Achaemenid period. Paul-Alain Beaulieu sheds light on the hierarchy of the local pantheon, providing a wealth of data concerning the cult of each deity, such as identity and theology, ornaments and clothing of the divine image, offerings ceremonies, temples, and cultic personnel. An important contribution to our knowledge of the functioning of religion in Neo-Babylonian society.

Author : Ömür Harmanşah
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-18
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781107027947

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Cities and the Shaping of Memory in the Ancient Near East by Ömür Harmanşah Pdf

This book investigates the practice of constructing cities in the ancient Near East, bringing together architecture and cultural history.

Author : Robin Baker
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004322677

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Hollow Men, Strange Women by Robin Baker Pdf

In Hollow Men, Robin Baker provides a reappraisal of the Book of Judges account of Israel's Settlement of Canaan. Written under Assyrian suzerainty in Manasseh’s reign, Judges is a theological commentary on the Settlement and an esoteric work of prophecy.

Author : Christopher B. Hays
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802873118

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A Covenant with Death by Christopher B. Hays Pdf

Death is one of the major themes in First Isaiah, although it has not generally been recognized as such. In this study Christopher Hays offers fresh interpretations of more than a dozen passages in Isaiah 538 in light of ancient beliefs about death. Hays first summarizes what is known about death in the ancient Near East during the Second Iron Age, covering beliefs and practicesin Mesopotamia, Egypt, Syria-Palestine, and Judah/Israel. He then shows how select passages in the first part of Isaiah employ the rhetorical imagery of death that was part of their cultural context, and he also identifies ways in which those texts break new creative ground. This books holistic approach to questions that have attracted much scholarly attention in recent decades produces new insights not only for the interpretation of specific biblical passages but also for the formation of the book of Isaiah and for the history of ancient Near Eastern religions.

Author : Christopher B. Hays
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Bible
ISBN : 3161507851

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Death in the Iron Age II and in First Isaiah by Christopher B. Hays Pdf

Death is one of the major themes of 'First Isaiah, ' although it has not generally been recognized as such. Images of death are repeatedly used by the prophet and his earliest tradents.The book begins by concisely summarizing what is known about death in the Ancient Near East during the Iron Age II, covering beliefs and practices in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Syria-Palestine, and Judah/Israel. Incorporating both textual and archeological data, Christopher B. Hays surveys and analyzes existing scholarly literature on these topics from multiple fields.Focusing on the text's meaning for its producers and its initial audiences, he describes the ways in which the 'rhetoric of death' functioned in its historical context and offers fresh interpretations of more than a dozen passages in Isa 5-38. He shows how they employ the imagery of death that was part of their cultural contexts, and also identifies ways in which they break new creative ground.This holistic approach to questions that have attracted much scholarly attention in recent decades produces new insights not only for the interpretation of specific biblical passages, but also for the formation of the book of Isaiah and for the history of ancient Near Eastern religions