The Petra Papyri

Author : Antti Arjava,Jaakko Frösén,Matias Buchholz,Zbigniew T. Fiema,Traianos Gagos,Marjo Lehtinen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015073898119

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The Petra Papyri by Antti Arjava,Jaakko Frösén,Matias Buchholz,Zbigniew T. Fiema,Traianos Gagos,Marjo Lehtinen Pdf

What is called the Petra archive or Petra papyri is a group of ca. 140 carbonized papyrus rolls found in 1993 in a room adjacent to the main Byzantine church of Petra. The documents date from the 6th century. They are private papers of a well-to-do local family, mainly financial documents concerning marriage, inheritance, sales, loans and disputes, but also documents connected with taxation. The documents are written in Greek. The Petra Papyri are one of the most important finds of ancient documentary texts ever made outside of Egypt.

Author : Jaakko Frösén,Antti Arjava,Marjo Lehtinen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Egypt
ISBN : UOM:39015056666228

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The Petra Papyri by Jaakko Frösén,Antti Arjava,Marjo Lehtinen Pdf

What is called the Petra archive or Petra papyri is a group of ca. 140 carbonized papyrus rolls found in 1993 in a room adjacent to the main Byzantine church of Petra. The documents date from the 6th century. They are private papers of a well-to-do local family, mainly financial documents concerning marriage, inheritance, sales, loans and disputes, but also documents connected with taxation. The documents are written in Greek. The Petra Papyri are one of the most important finds of ancient documentary texts ever made outside of Egypt.

Author : Luke Lavan,Ellen Swift,Toon Putzeys
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047433057

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Objects in Context, Objects in Use by Luke Lavan,Ellen Swift,Toon Putzeys Pdf

This collection of papers, arising from the conference series Late Antique Archaeology, examines material spatiality in late antiquity. Synthetic papers drawing on archaeological, art-historical and textual sources, are complemented by case-studies of sites, an introductory essay, and several bibliographic essays.

Author : Nico Krisch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108843065

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Entangled Legalities Beyond the State by Nico Krisch Pdf

Shows that law it is often better understood as an entangled web rather than as a coherent, orderly system.

Author : Jaakko Frösén,Zbigniew T. Fiema
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN : UOM:39015056948683

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Petra by Jaakko Frösén,Zbigniew T. Fiema Pdf

Author : Judith McKenzie
Publisher : Manar al-Athar, University of Oxford
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780995494695

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Life in a Cave in Petra with the Bdoul by Judith McKenzie Pdf

From 1981 until 1986, the archaeologist Judith McKenzie, then a graduate student at the University of Sydney, traveled to the ancient site of Petra in Jordan, living in a cave there for extended periods, in order to survey and measure architectural moldings on the rock-cut monuments. It was a critical time in the history of Petra, where, for centuries, its local inhabitants, known as the Bdoul, had lived and worked. But that tradition was coming to a close. In 1985, the Bdoul began a move to the nearby village of Umm Sayhoun, as directed by the Jordanian government. This first-hand account of life in a cave at Petra, based on diaries Judith kept at the time she lived among the Bdoul, is therefore important as a record of a lifestyle now largely vanished. As she writes in her introduction: "I spent so much time socializing with the Bdoul, I came to observe many aspects of Bdoul life in a series of visits over three main field seasons. As women we had access to the world of young girls and women, which men from outside did not, while we were also sometimes treated as honorary men." This memoir thus stands as a reminder of life at Petra before the arrival of modern-day tourism at the site. But this book is not only a memoir. Observations are made on the ways in which the Bdoul have adapted to their new environment. Changes at the site that have taken place since 1981 because of weathering and erosion are recorded through comparisons between photographs taken forty years ago and more recent images. Ramifications of the expansion of the tourist-industry at Petra in the 21st century are also considered. Life in a Cave in Petra with the Bdoul: 1981-1986 is therefore an important and essential volume on the archaeology and history of one of the best-known ancient sites in the world.

Author : Thomas Evan Levy,P.M.Michele Daviau,Randall W. Younker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315478562

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Crossing Jordan by Thomas Evan Levy,P.M.Michele Daviau,Randall W. Younker Pdf

Jordan is a key area of migration within the Levantine corridor that links the continents of Africa and Asia. 'Crossing Jordan' examines the peoples and cultures that have travelled across Jordan from antiquity to the present. The book offers a critical analysis of recent discoveries and archaeological models in Jordan and highlights the significant contribution of North American archaeologists to the field. Leading archaeologists explore the theory and methodology of archaeology in Jordan in essays which range across prehistory, the Bronze Age, the Iron Age, the Hellenistic and Roman periods, Nabatean civilization, the Byzantine period, and Islamic civilization. The volume provides an up-to-date guide to the archaeological heritage of Jordan, being an important resource for scholars and students of Jordan's history, as well as citizens, non-governmental organizations and tourists.

Author : Chris L. de Wet,Maijastina Kahlos,Ville Vuolanto
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108476225

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Slavery in the Late Antique World, 150 – 700 CE by Chris L. de Wet,Maijastina Kahlos,Ville Vuolanto Pdf

An investigation into slaveholding and slave experience in late antiquity, focusing on ideological, moral and cultural aspects of slavery.

Author : Lawrence H. Schiffman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004128859

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Semitic Papyrology in Context by Lawrence H. Schiffman Pdf

This volume brings together studies which relate to the interpenetration of Semitic and Greco-Roman traditions of papyrus writing in the antique Middle East.

Author : Roger S. Bagnall
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 711 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199843695

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The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology by Roger S. Bagnall Pdf

Thousands of documentary and literary texts written on papyri and potsherds, in Egyptian, Greek, Latin, Aramaic, Hebrew, and Persian, have transformed our knowledge of many aspects of life in the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds. Here experts provide a comprehensive guide to understanding this ancient documentary evidence.

Author : Larry W. Hurtado
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006-11-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802828958

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The Earliest Christian Artifacts by Larry W. Hurtado Pdf

Review: "Much attention has been paid to the words of the earliest Christian canonical and extracanonical texts, yet Larry Hurtado points out that an even more telling story is being overlooked - the story of the physical texts themselves. He introduces readers to the staurogram, possibly the first representation of the cross, the nomina sacra, a textual abbreviation system, and the puzzling Christian preference for book-like texts over scrolls." "Drawing on studies by papyrologists and palaeographers as well as New Testament scholars - and including photographic plates of selected manuscripts - The Earliest Christian Artifacts examines the distinctive physical features of early Christian manuscripts, illustrating their relevance for wider inquiry into the complex origins of Christianity." -- book jacket.

Author : Burton MacDonald
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782978336

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The Southern Transjordan Edomite Plateau and the Dead Sea Rift Valley by Burton MacDonald Pdf

Burton MacDonald presents an in-depth study of the archaeology and history of human presence over the past five-six thousand years in the southern segment of the Transjordan/Edomite Plateau and the Dead Sea Rift Valley to the west. The evidence from archaeology for the area spans the entire period though the time for which literary evidence is available is only the past 4000 years, from the Middle Bronze Age (2000-1550 BC). Once literary evidence is available, however, it complements the archaeological record and, as can be amply demonstrated, the written records can be clarified only through the archaeological data. These two sources are, thus, used to describe environments, resources, industries, settlement patterns, and the lifestyles of the inhabitants of this pivotal region. The result is a “story” of the people who lived in the area from the Bronze Age through the Islamic period. What is evident is that there were differences in certain archaeological periods in settlement patterns, as well as lifestyles, between those who lived on the southern segment of the Plateau and those who lived in the Dead Sea Rift Valley or in the lowlands immediately to the west. Moreover, it is obvious that when there were periods of trade and industry, for example, the spice trade and copper mining and processing, the population of the area was higher. Stable governance brought about growth in population and prosperity. But other factors also played their part in these ebbs and flows of population: climatic fluctuations affecting the availability of water and arable land; the development and adoption of new technologies in farming practices, raw material extraction and industrial methods, processes and transportation; and political change resulting in periods of relative stability and instability in government.

Author : Nur Masalha
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780755642977

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Palestine Across Millennia by Nur Masalha Pdf

In this magisterial cultural history of the Palestinians, Nur Masalha illuminates the entire history of Palestinian learning with specific reference to writing, education, literary production and the intellectual revolutions in the country. The book introduces this long cultural heritage to demonstrate that Palestine was not just a 'holy land' for the four monotheistic religions – Islam, Christianity, Judaism and Samaritanism – rather, the country evolved to become a major international site of classical education and knowledge production in multiple languages including Sumerian, Proto-Canaanite, Greek, Syriac, Arabic, Hebrew and Latin. The cultural saturation of the country is found then, not solely in landmark mosques, churches and synagogues, but in scholarship, historic schools, colleges, famous international libraries and archival centres. This unique book unites these renowned institutions, movements and multiple historical periods for the first time, presenting them as part of a cumulative and incremental intellectual advancement rather than disconnected periods of educational excellence. In doing so, this multifaceted intellectual history transforms the orientations of scholarly research on Palestine and propels current historical knowledge on education and literacy in Palestine to new heights.

Author : Fred M. Donner,Rebecca Hasselbach-Andee
Publisher : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781614910749

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Scripts and Scripture by Fred M. Donner,Rebecca Hasselbach-Andee Pdf

How did Islam's sacred scripture, the Arabic Qur'an, emerge from western Arabia at a time when the region was religiously fragmented and lacked a clearly established tradition of writing to render the Arabic language? The studies in this volume, the proceedings of a scholarly conference, address different aspects of this question. They include discussions of the religious concepts found in Arabia in the centuries preceding the rise of Islam, which reflect the presence of polytheism and of several varieties of monotheism including Judaism and Christianity. Also discussed at length are the complexities surrounding the way languages of the Arabian Peninsula were written in the centuries before and after the rise of Islam-including Nabataean and various North Arabian dialects of Semitic-and the gradual emergence of the now-familiar Arabic script from the Nabataean script originally intended to render a dialect of Aramaic. The religious implications of inscriptions from the pre-Islamic and early Islamic centuries receive careful scrutiny. The early coalescence of the Qur'an, the kind of information it contains on Christianity and other religions that formed part of the environment in which it first appeared, the development of several key Qur'anic concepts, and the changing meaning of certain terms used in the Qur'an also form part of this rich volume.

Author : M. Sintubin
Publisher : Geological Society of America
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780813724713

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Ancient Earthquakes by M. Sintubin Pdf

"Ancient earthquakes are pre-instrumental earthquakes that can only be identified through indirect evidence in the archaeological (archaeoseismology) and geological (palaeoseismology) record. Special Paper 471 includes a selection of cases convincingly illustrating the different ways the archaeological record is used in earthquake studies. The first series of papers focuses on the relationship between human prehistory and tectonically active environments, and on the wide range of societal responses to historically known earthquakes. The bulk of papers concerns archaeoseismology, showing the diversity of approaches, the wide range of disciplines involved, and its potential to contribute to a better understanding of earthquake history. Ancient Earthquakes will be of interest to the broad community of earth scientists, seismologists, historians, and archaeologists active in and around archaeological sites in the many regions around the world threatened by seismic hazards. This Special Paper frames in the International Geoscience Programme IGCP 567 'Earthquake Archaeology: Archaeoseismology along the Alpine-Himalayan Seismic Zone.'"--Publisher's description.