The ancient Near Eastern context
The Biblical Creation in its Ancient Near Eastern Context
... a context of cultural superiority. What ancient Israel lacked in political influence, however, it more than made up for in its conception of a communal identity before God, a view embodied in the books we ...
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A Near Eastern Megalithic Monument in Context
... The structure of Rujm el Hiri (Fig. 1) is one of the largest structures in the Ancient Near East. It consists of a central cairn covering a possible burial chamber surrounded by five concentric walls. The ...
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Ancient Greek Law in a Near Eastern Context: Comparative Case Studies of Homicide Pollution and Adultery Law in Greece and the Near East
... Before moving onto the case studies, some notes on the use of the texts should be addressed. All translations of the Hebrew Bible are from the NSRV unless otherwise noted. Equally, all translations of the Near ...
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Ancient Near Eastern Art in Context Studies in Honor of Irene J. Winter, Leiden - Boston, Brill, 2007
... of ancient Near Eastern art of her generation, in large part due to the limitless imagination of her scholarship and her insistence on the material’s relevance in art historical and Mesopotamian ...
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THE CHARACTER OF ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN ECONOMY: RESPONSE TO CHRISTOPHE PÉBARTHE
... this context raises the question if there isn’t just a narrow time horizon for the individual that provides little planning reliability and if is it not just the political power itself that marks a factor of ...
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Mechanisms of conflict and dispute resolution in Ancient Near Eastern Treaties
... an ancient International Law, as offered by Eckart Otto referring to Wolfgang Preiser and Karl-Heinz ...defines ancient International Law as “rechtlich verbindliche Ordnung verschiedener unab- hängiger, ...
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Updating the “abstract–concrete” distinction in Ancient Near Eastern numbers
... Zentz, 2012). Abstract and Related Assumptions The distribution of numerical meaning across multiple number systems in the early numerical signs (i.e., the tokens, numerical impressions, and archaic notations) made their ...
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Finders Keepers? Lost Property in Ancient Near Eastern and Biblical Law
... Baker : Finders Keepers? Lost Property in ANE and Biblical Law 209 Old Testament Turning to the OT, we may observe that the Book of the Covenant assumes the basic principle underlying the Babylonian and Hittite laws—that ...
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Curriculum for the Master s Programmes in Ancient and Medieval Near Eastern Studies the 2008 Curriculum
... in Ancient and Medieval Near Eastern Studies: ...the ancient Mesopotamian civilizations from ...material context and in a comparative ...
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Unknown provenance : the forgery, illicit trade and looting of ancient near eastern artifacts and antiquities
... provenance, can be a double-edged sword. Some scholars would hold that the outright rejection of artefacts without provenance is the right thing to do. However, such a view may be just as bad as accepting that an ...
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WOMEN IN THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST
... The Context of Scripture (1997–2002) for ancient Near Eastern texts, where the documents are separated by language rather than ...the ancient Near ...
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Ancient Near Eastern Art
... exist in Iran, and silver was brought back from Anatolia by merchants from north- ern Mesopotamia (Assyria) in the early second millennium B.C.. Gold came to Mesopotamia from a va[r] ...
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Veiling in Ancient Near Eastern Legal Contexts
... Abstract Particularly interesting textual evidence on the use of the veil in ancient Mesopotamia comes from 15th-14th century BC Assyria. No comprehensive code of laws has reached us from this age, but only a ...
Ritual Rhetoric in Ancient Near Eastern Texts
... Ritual Rhetoric in Ancient Near Eastern Texts 45 sarcophagus of Ankhesenpepy) or even emphasize (e.g. the Palermo Stone) ritual concerns to the point of quoting edicts r[r] ...
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Pere Bosch Gimpera and the studies on Ancient Near Eastern history
... El 1899 inició, ya como director, las excavaciones en Babilonia, donde trabajó durante dieciocho años, desarrollando su técnica específica para la excavación de una arquitectura de ado[r] ...
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33841240 Myth and Politics in Ancient Near Eastern Historiography Mario Liverani
... 3 Shunashura, or: on reciprocity * INTRODUCTION The Hittites, who ruled Anatolia and large parts of northern Syria in the second half of the second millennium, have left us the largest number of political treaties from ...
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33841240 Myth and Politics in Ancient Near Eastern Historiography Mario Liverani
... the ancient texts themselves, but also in the way that we, as students of antiquity, mediate those texts into ...even ancient history, far from being an innocent didactic exercise, is inevitably inuenced ...
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Associated Regional Chronologies for the Ancient Near East and Eastern Mediterranean (ARCANE)
... The Mobilization of an International and Comprehensive Team of Scholars These specialists belong to 28 different countries and represent the major European, American and Australian academic and research institutions, ...
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Popular power in ancient Near Eastern and archaic Greek polities. A reappraisal of Western and Eastern political cultures
... Podlecki’s suggestion that Tyrtaios’ poems camouflaged the fact that the popular assembly had lost the right to make independent decisions is unconvincing. It hinges on the assumption that the Great Rhetra and the Rider ...
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Armies of the Ancient Near East
... in Canaanite socie t y following the introduction of ChariOI warfare at the beginning of this period. The origin of this institution is probably to be found among the [r] ...
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