The Late Third Millennium Bce In The Upper Orontes Valley Syria

Author : Melissa A. Kennedy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Bronze age
ISBN : 904293011X

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The Late Third Millennium BCE in the Upper Orontes Valley, Syria by Melissa A. Kennedy Pdf

This volume is a revised version of a doctoral dissertation undertaken at The University of Sydney. It examines the florescene of urban society during the mid to late Third Millennium BCE in the northern Levant, focusing on the largely unexplored region of the upper Orontes Valley, specifically the site of Tell Nebi Mend, ancient Qadesh (on the Orontes). This work seeks to explore the role and significance of 'small' regional sites during the Early Bronze Age IV, by presenting a detailed stratigraphic and ceramic analysis of the Tell Nebi Mend sequence from the mid Third Millennium (Early Bronze Age III) through the early Second Millennium BCE (Middle Bronze Age I). One of the principal aims of this work is to construct a detailed ceramic typology for Tell Nebi Mend and the upper Orontes during the late Third Millennium BCE. This stratigraphically anchored assemblage was designed as a foil for the more intensively investigated 'mega-site' sequences of the region, such as Ebla and Hama. It was also designed to explore and examine the development and evolution of regional ceramic horizons and the growth of inter-site interaction that occurred during the later Early Bronze Age. Although this work will not be the last word on studies of the EB IV, the ceramic and stratigraphic information presented sheds new and important light on many of the key research issues that surround the Early Bronze Age IV, such as the nature of the Early Bronze Age III-IV transition and the regional response to the 'collapse' of the Early Bronze Age urban system ca. 2000 BCE.

Author : Irving Finkel,J.A. Fraser,St John Simpson
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781803274713

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‘To Aleppo gone ...’: Essays in honour of Jonathan N. Tubb by Irving Finkel,J.A. Fraser,St John Simpson Pdf

A festschrift in honour of Jonathan Tubb, former Levant curator and Keeper of the Department of the Middle East at the British Museum. 44 contributions reflect Jonathan’s career and professional interests with a focus on the Jordan Valley and southern Levant, but also north Syria, Mesopotamia, and the protection of endangered cultural heritage.

Author : Melissa Kennedy
Publisher : Sydney University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781743327197

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A Land in Between by Melissa Kennedy Pdf

The Orontes Valley in western Syria is a land ‘in between’, positioned between the small trading centres of the coast and the huge urban agglomerations of the Euphrates Valley and the Syro-Mesopotamian plains beyond. As such, it provides a critical missing link in our understanding of the archaeology of this region in the early urban age. A Land in Between documents the material culture and socio-political relationships of the Orontes Valley and its neighbours during the second half of the 3rd millennium BCE. The authors demonstrate that the valley was a chief conduit for the exchange of knowledge and goods that fuelled the first urban age in western Syria. This lays the foundation for a comparative perspective, providing a clearer understanding of key differences between the Orontes region and its neighbours, and insights into how patterns of material and political association changed over time.

Author : ARAM SOCIETY
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Amorites
ISBN : 9781326717438

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ARAM 26 Black & White Paperback by ARAM SOCIETY Pdf

Author : William Henry Propp
Publisher : Anchor Bible
Page : 906 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:49015003137594

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Exodus 19-40 by William Henry Propp Pdf

The long-awaited conclusion of William H. C. Propp's masterful study of Exodus, this informative, clearly written commentary provides a new perspective on Israelite culture and on the role of ritual, law, and covenant in biblical religion. Exodus 19-40 sets a new standard in biblical scholarship. Thorough and up-to-date, it is the first commentary on Exodus to include critical textual evidence from the recently edited Dead Sea Scrolls. Informed by Propp's deep understanding of ancient cultural mores and religious traditions, it casts new light on the Israelites' arrival at Sinai, their entry into a covenant with God, their reception of the Law, their worship of the golden calf, and their reconciliation to God. The incisive commentary on the building of the Holy Tabernacle-God's wilderness abode-is supplemented by numerous illustrations that clarify the biblical text. Propp extends the scope and relevance of this major work in five appendices that discuss the literary formation of the Torah, the historicity of the Exodus tradition, the origins of Israelite monotheism, the Exodus theme in the Bible, and the future of Old Testament scholarship. By taking an anthropological rather than strictly theological approach, Propp places familiar stories within a fresh context. The result is a fully accessible guide to one of the most important and best known books of the Bible.

Author : John J. Collins
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9781451469233

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Introduction to the Hebrew Bible by John J. Collins Pdf

A title that proceeds through the canon of the Old Testament and the apocrypha, judiciously presenting the state of historical, archaeological, and literary understanding of the biblical text, and engaging the student in questions of significance and interpretation for the contemporary world.

Author : Y. Kanjou,Akira Tsuneki
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781784913823

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A History of Syria in One Hundred Sites by Y. Kanjou,Akira Tsuneki Pdf

This volume presents the long history of Syria through a jouney of the most important and recently-excavated archaeological sites. The sites cover over 1.8 million years and all regions in Syria; 110 academics have contributed information on 103 excavations for this volume

Author : John Van Seters
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781498299558

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My Life and Career as a Biblical Scholar by John Van Seters Pdf

Despite growing up in a poor family during the 1930s and ‘40s, Van Seters eventually excelled at the University of Toronto and earned a PhD at Yale University in ancient Near Eastern and Hebrew studies. Before Van Seters became a teacher, he and his wife spent three-quarters of a year in Palestine, becoming familiar with the whole region. Later in his career Van Seters assisted in archaeological expeditions in Jordan and Egypt. Visits to the Near East across his career broadened his understanding and appreciation of the biblical texts he studied professionally. Van Seters spent most of his working life teaching in universities—first at the University of Toronto, and then for over twenty years at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. This book not only chronicles what Van Seters has accomplished as a biblical scholar but also tells how he has become such a scholar. He hopes that experiences recorded here may guide young scholars to develop fruitful careers in biblical studies.

Author : Federico Giusfredi,Valerio Pisaniello,Alvise Matessi
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004548633

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Contacts of Languages and Peoples in the Hittite and Post-Hittite World by Federico Giusfredi,Valerio Pisaniello,Alvise Matessi Pdf

Ever since the early 2nd millennium BCE, Pre-Classical Anatolia has been a crossroads of languages and peoples. Indo-European peoples – Hittites, Luwians, Palaeans – and non-Indo-European ones – Hattians, but also Assyrians and Hurrians – coexisted with each other for extended periods of time during the Bronze Age, a cohabitation that left important traces in the languages they spoke and in the texts they wrote. By combining, in an interdisciplinary fashion, the complementary approaches of linguistics, history, and philology, this book offers a comprehensive, state-of-the-art study of linguistic and cultural contacts in a region that is often described as the bridge between the East and the West. With contributions by Paola Cotticelli-Kurras, Alfredo Rizza, Maurizio Viano, and Ilya Yakubovich.

Author : Nadav Na'aman
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2005-06-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781575065687

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Canaan in the Second Millennium B.C.E. by Nadav Na'aman Pdf

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 : Oxford University Press
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 2812 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780195105070

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The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History by Oxford University Press Pdf

"While many dictionaries of economics are available for purchase, this title is unique because of its greater depth of treatment. It offers histories and backgrounds on a significant number of economic topics, not only for the United States but also for other countries and geographic regions. Entries cover such topics as economic concepts; markets and industries; economic development in various countries; biographical essays on key people in economics and business; business products, including coffee, gas, and oil; and the economic aspects of historical events and time periods, including the Great Depression."--"The Top 20 Reference Titles of the Year," American Libraries, May 2004.

Author : Suzanne Richard
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Bronze age
ISBN : 1575067404

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New Horizons in the Study of the Early Bronze III and Early Bronze IV of the Levant by Suzanne Richard Pdf

A collection of twenty-three essays on the northern and southern Levant in the third millennium BCE, providing scholarly reevaluations of topics including urbanism, heterarchy, nomadism, ruralism, terminology, and cultural continuity/discontinuity.

Author : Lisa Cooper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134261079

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Early Urbanism on the Syrian Euphrates by Lisa Cooper Pdf

Studying archaeological evidence from sites covering over 200 kilometres of the banks of the Euphrates River, this book explores the growth and success of human settlement in the Euphrates River Valley of Northern Syria from circa 2700 to 1550 BC.

Author : Trevor Bryce
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191002922

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Ancient Syria by Trevor Bryce Pdf

Syria has long been one of the most trouble-prone and politically volatile regions of the Near and Middle Eastern world. This book looks back beyond the troubles of the present to tell the 3000-year story of what happened many centuries before. Trevor Bryce reveals the peoples, cities, and kingdoms that arose, flourished, declined, and disappeared in the lands that now constitute Syria, from the time of it's earliest written records in the third millennium BC until the reign of the Roman emperor Diocletian at the turn of the 3-4th century AD. Across the centuries, from the Bronze Age to the Rome Era, we encounter a vast array of characters and civilizations, enlivening, enriching, and besmirching the annals of Syrian history: Hittite and Assyrian Great Kings; Egyptian pharaohs; Amorite robber-barons; the biblically notorious Nebuchadnezzar; Persia's Cyrus the Great and Macedon's Alexander the Great; the rulers of the Seleucid empire; and an assortment of Rome's most distinguished and most infamous emperors. All swept across the plains of Syria at some point in her long history. All contributed, in one way or another, to Syria's special, distinctive character, as they imposed themselves upon it, fought one another within it, or pillaged their way through it. But this is not just a history of invasion and oppression. Syria had great rulers of her own, native-born Syrian luminaries, sometimes appearing as local champions who sought to liberate their lands from foreign despots, sometimes as cunning, self-seeking manipulators of squabbles between their overlords. They culminate with Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra, whose life provides a fitting grand finale to the first three millennia of Syria's recorded history. The conclusion looks forward to the Muslim conquest in the 7th century AD: in many ways the opening chapter in the equally complex and often troubled history of modern Syria.

Author : Harvey Weiss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015019058240

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The Origins of Cities in Dry-farming Syria and Mesopotamia in the Third Millennium B.C. by Harvey Weiss Pdf

The mid-third millennium is marked by unprecedented urban growth from Egypt and the Levantine coast to the Iranian plateau and the Indus valley. Although urbanization in the southern Mesopotamian alluvium is reasonably well understood, details of the emergence of cities in other regions remain sketchy. When did cities first appear on the dry-farming plains of Syria and Mesopotamia and what accounts for their development? How might northern urbanization be a response to or in what ways might urbanization in the two regions reflect independent social and economic processes? Recent excavations provide new data that force reconsideration of ancient urbanization within the dry-farming zone along the interior of the Zagros-Taurus arc in Syria and Iraq. The essays in this volume, which grew out of a symposium hosted by the American Schools of Oriental Research in Chicago in December 1984, specifically treat third-millennium urbanization in the dry-farming zones of Syria and Iraq. The contrast of north and south informs each essay, and this focus points to additional issues and problems likely to dominate future archaeological research agendas.