The Social History Of Achaemenid Phoenicia

Author : Vadim S. Jigoulov
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134938162

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The Social History of Achaemenid Phoenicia by Vadim S. Jigoulov Pdf

Even though the Persian period has attracted a fair share of scholarly interest in recent years, as yet no concerted effort has been attempted to construct a comprehensive social history of Phoenician city-states as an integral part of the Achaemenid empire. This monograph explores the evidence from Persian-period literary (both ancient Jewish and classical), epigraphic, and numismatic sources, as well as material culture remains, in order to sketch just such a history. This study examines developments in Persian-period Phoenician city-states on the three levels: that of the individual household, the city-state, and the administrative unit of the Persian empire. These three societal levels are analyzed within the contexts of economic competition between and among the Phoenician city-states, their burgeoning economic ties with the outside world, and their interaction with the Persian imperial influence in the Levant.

Author : Vadim Serge Jigoulov
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0542787148

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Towards a Social History of the Phoenician City-States in the Achaemenid Empire by Vadim Serge Jigoulov Pdf

Even though the Persian period has attracted a fair share of scholarly interest in recent years, as yet no concerted effort to construct a comprehensive social history of Phoenician city-states has been attempted. Moreover, few analyses have been attempted of "Phoenicia" as a conglomerate of independent city-states and as an integral part of the Achaemenid empire. This dissertation explores the evidence from Persian-period literary (both ancient Jewish and classical), epigraphic, and numismatic sources, as well as material culture remains, in order to arrive at a socio-historical model of the Phoenician city-states. The results of this investigation suggest that Phoenician material culture artifacts were marked by continuity across chronological and geographic expanses. Furthermore, our iconographical analysis of imagery used on Phoenician coinage reveals a compliant relationship of Phoenician city-states with the Achaemenid empire, as well as eclecticism of styles and susceptibility to foreign elements, particularly Greek and Persian.

Author : Vadim S. Jigoulov
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789144796

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The Phoenicians by Vadim S. Jigoulov Pdf

Drawing on an impressive range of archaeological and textual sources and a nuanced understanding of biases, this book offers a valuable reappraisal of the enigmatic Phoenicians. The Phoenicians is a fascinating exploration of this much-mythologized people: their history, artistic heritage, and the scope of their maritime and colonizing activities in the Mediterranean. Two aspects of the book stand out from other studies of Phoenician history: the source-focused approach and the attention paid to the various ways that biases—ancient and modern—have contributed to widespread misconceptions about who the Phoenicians really were. The book describes and analyzes various artifacts (epigraphic, numismatic, and material remains) and considers how historians have derived information about a people with little surviving literature. This analysis includes a critical look at the primary texts (classical, Near Eastern, and biblical), the relationship between the Phoenician and Punic worlds; Phoenician interaction with the Greeks and others; and the repurposing of Phoenician heritage in modernity. Detailed and engrossing, The Phoenicians casts new light on this most enigmatic of civilizations.

Author : Mark Woolmer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786722171

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A Short History of the Phoenicians by Mark Woolmer Pdf

The Phoenicians present a tantalizing face to the ancient historian. Latin sources suggest they once had an extensive literature of history, law, philosophy and religion; but all now is lost. Offering new insights based on recent archaeological discoveries in their heartland of modern-day Lebanon, Mark Woolmer presents a fresh appraisal of this fascinating, yet elusive, Semitic people. Discussing material culture, language and alphabet, religion (including sacred prostitution of women and boys to the goddess Astarte), funerary custom and trade and expansion into the Punic west, he explores Phoenicia in all its paradoxical complexity. Viewed in antiquity as sage scribes and intrepid mariners who pushed back the boundaries of the known world, and as skilled engineers who built monumental harbour cities like Tyre and Sidon, the Phoenicians were also considered (especially by their rivals, the Romans) to be profiteers cruelly trading in human lives. The author shows them above all to have been masters of the sea: this was a civilization that circumnavigated Africa two thousand years before Vasco da Gama did it in 1498.

Author : Aaron Koller,Daniel Tsadik
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781532661709

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Iran, Israel, and the Jews by Aaron Koller,Daniel Tsadik Pdf

Iran, Israel, and the Jews have a relationship that is in the news all the time. But it cannot be understood just in modern terms. Its roots are 2,500 years old. This volume surveys that history through case studies and broad overviews—from the first intensive contacts under Cyrus the Great, through Persian influence on Judaism evident in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Babylonian Talmud, into the Middle Ages and the flourishing of Judeo-Persian literature and culture, and finally into modern times, when the political, social, and cultural ties are multifaceted and profound. Written by experts in both Iranian and Jewish studies, these essays convey the richness and complexity of a long and tumultuous relationship between two ancient and great civilizations, which continues to shape the world today.

Author : Peter Altmann
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3161548132

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Economics in Persian-Period Biblical Texts by Peter Altmann Pdf

Large-scale economic change such as the rise of coinage occurred during the Persian-dominated centuries (6th-4th centuries BCE) in the Eastern Mediterranean and ancient Near East. How do the biblical texts of the time respond to such developments? In this study, Peter Altmann lays out foundational economic conceptions from the ancient Near East and earlier biblical traditions in order to show how Persian-period biblical texts build on these traditions to address the challenges of their day. Economic issues are central for how Ezra and Nehemiah approach the topics of temple building and of Judean self-understanding, and economics are also important for other Persian-period texts. Following significant interaction with the material culture and extra-biblical texts, the author devotes special attention to the ascendancy of economics and its theological and identity implications as structuring metaphors for divine action and human community in the Persian period.

Author : Carolina López-Ruiz,Brian R. Doak
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 787 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : History
ISBN : 9780197654422

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The Oxford Handbook of the Phoenician and Punic Mediterranean by Carolina López-Ruiz,Brian R. Doak Pdf

The Phoenicians created the Mediterranean world as we know it--yet they remain a poorly understood group. In this Handbook, the first of its kind in English, readers will find expert essays covering the history, culture, and areas of settlement throughout the Phoenician and Punic world.

Author : George Rawlinson
Publisher : London : Longmans
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Carthage (Extinct city)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041473088

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History of Phoenicia by George Rawlinson Pdf

Author : Jonathan M. Hall,James F. Osborne
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226819051

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The Connected Iron Age by Jonathan M. Hall,James F. Osborne Pdf

An interdisciplinary consideration of how eastern Mediterranean cultures in the first millennium BCE were meaningfully connected. The early first millennium BCE marks one of the most culturally diverse periods in the history of the eastern Mediterranean. Surveying the region from Greece to Iraq, one finds a host of cultures and political formations, all distinct, yet all visibly connected in meaningful ways. These include the early polities of Geometric period Greece, the Phrygian kingdom of central Anatolia, the Syro-Anatolian city-states, the seafaring Phoenicians and the biblical Israelites of the southern Levant, Egypt’s Twenty-first through Twenty-fifth Dynasties, the Urartian kingdom of the eastern Anatolian highlands, and the expansionary Neo-Assyrian Empire of northern Mesopotamia. This volume adopts an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the social and political significance of how interregional networks operated within and between Mediterranean cultures during that era.

Author : Antonios Finitsis
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567131591

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Visions and Eschatology by Antonios Finitsis Pdf

Antonios Finitsis provides a distinctive view social worldview and message of Zechariah.

Author : Mark J. Boda
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 935 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802823755

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The Book of Zechariah by Mark J. Boda Pdf

Over the years, Zechariah has suffered from many accusations of obscurity and has frustrated readers seeking to unlock its treasures. This commentary by Mark Boda provides clear insight into Zechariah's meaning with sensitivity to the historical, literary, and theological dimensions of this prophetic book of the Bible. Boda presents a fresh translation of Zechariah based on the original Hebrew and offers detailed commentary to justify his translation and highlight the key themes of each passage. He addresses controversies surrounding the book even as he orients readers to the overall flow of the text and its theological significance. A valuable tool for preaching and teaching, this new commentary supplies deep and thorough reflection on a too-often-neglected book of the Old Testament.

Author : Josephine Quinn
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691195964

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In Search of the Phoenicians by Josephine Quinn Pdf

Who were the ancient Phoenicians—and did they actually exist? The Phoenicians traveled the Mediterranean long before the Greeks and Romans, trading, establishing settlements, and refining the art of navigation. But who these legendary sailors really were has long remained a mystery. In Search of the Phoenicians makes the startling claim that the "Phoenicians" never actually existed as such. Taking readers from the ancient world to today, this book argues that the notion of these sailors as a coherent people with a shared identity, history, and culture is a product of modern nationalist ideologies—and a notion very much at odds with the ancient sources.

Author : Suk Yee Lee
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567066633

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An Intertextual Analysis of Zechariah 9-10 by Suk Yee Lee Pdf

This book conducts an in-depth study on the ideas about future salvation in Zechariah 9-10. In accommodation of the allusive character of the text, Lee uses the methodology of intertextual analysis to examine the markers in the text. Having established the moments of intertextuality, Lee investigates the sources and their contexts, analyzing how the intertexts are used in the new context of the host and exploring how the antecedents shape the reading of the later text. Thus, Lee argues that Zechariah 9-10 leverages earlier biblical material in order to express its view on restoration, which serves as a lens for the prophetic community in Yehud to make sense of their troubled world in the early Persian period, ca. 440 B.C. These two chapters envision the return of Yahweh who inaugurates the new age, ushering in prosperity and blessings. The earlier restoration expectations of Second Zechariah anticipate the formation of an ideal remnant settling in an ideal homeland, with Yahweh as king and David as vice-regent, reigning in Zion. The new commonwealth is not only a united society but also a cosmic one, with Judah, Ephraim, and the nations living together in peace.

Author : Eric Orlin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1091 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781134625529

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Routledge Encyclopedia of Ancient Mediterranean Religions by Eric Orlin Pdf

The Routledge Encyclopedia of Ancient Mediterranean Religions is the first comprehensive single-volume reference work offering authoritative coverage of ancient religions in the Mediterranean world. Chronologically, the volume’s scope extends from pre-historical antiquity in the third millennium B.C.E. through the rise of Islam in the seventh century C.E. An interdisciplinary approach draws out the common issues and elements between and among religious traditions in the Mediterranean basin. Key features of the volume include: Detailed maps of the Mediterranean World, ancient Egypt, the Roman Empire, and the Hellenistic World A comprehensive timeline of major events, innovations, and individuals, divided by region to provide both a diachronic and pan-Mediterranean, synchronic view A broad geographical range including western Asia, northern Africa, and southern Europe This encyclopedia will serve as a key point of reference for all students and scholars interested in ancient Mediterranean culture and society.

Author : A. T. Olmstead
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 671 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226826332

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History of the Persian Empire by A. T. Olmstead Pdf

Out of a lifetime of study of the ancient Near East, Professor Olmstead has gathered previously unknown material into the story of the life, times, and thought of the Persians, told for the first time from the Persian rather than the traditional Greek point of view. "The fullest and most reliable presentation of the history of the Persian Empire in existence."—M. Rostovtzeff