Explorations in Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations – serie
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Child Sacrifice in Ancient Israel
Häftad, 2026
391 kr
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Among the many religious acts condemned in the Hebrew Bible, child sacrifice stands out as particularly horrifying. The idea that any group of people would willingly sacrifice their own children to their god(s) is so contrary to modern moral sensibilities that it is difficult to imagine that such a …
Dragon, the Mountain, and the Nations
An Old Testament Myth, Its Origins, and Its Afterlives
Inbunden, 2018
808 kr
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The Dragon, the Mountain, and the Nations investigates the origins, manifestations, and meanings of a myth that plays a major role in the Hebrew Bible and a substantial role in the New Testament: the dragon-slaying myth.The dragon-slaying myth has a hoary ancestry, extending back long before its …
Bēl Lišāni
Current Research in Akkadian Linguistics
Av Rebecca Hasselbach-Andee, Na’ama Pat-El
Inbunden, 2021
1215 kr
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Akkadian, a Semitic language attested in writing from 2600 BCE until the first century CE, was the language of Mesopotamia for nearly three millennia. This volume examines the language from a comparative and historical linguistic perspective. Inspired by the work of renowned linguist John …
Jehu’s Tribute
What Can Biblical Studies Offer Assyriology?
Av Jeffrey L. Cooley, Jeffrey L. Cooley m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
1014 kr
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The findings of Assyriology have been applied to biblical studies ever since the former emerged as a scholarly discipline in the mid-nineteenth century. Today, the scholarly flow from Assyriology to biblical studies continues, yet rarely are the fruits of biblical scholarship brought to bear on the …
Sacrificial Economy
Assessors, Contractors, and Thieves in the Management of Sacrificial Sheep at the Eanna Temple of Uruk (ca. 625–520 B.C.)
Inbunden, 2014
762 kr
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In the mid-first millennium B.C., the Eanna temple at Uruk sacrificed a minimum of nine lambs every day in its basic routine of offerings to its gods; in addition to these, special occasions and festivals demanded the sacrifice of as many as 90 lambs in a single day. All told, the Eanna sacrificed …
Children in the Ancient Near Eastern Household
Av Kristine Henriksen Garroway
Inbunden, 2014
631 kr
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Children were an important part of the ancient Near Eastern household. This idea seems straightforward, but it can be understood in many ways. On a basic level, children are necessary for the perpetuation of a household. On a deeper level, the definitions of child and member of the household are …
Fishers of Fish and Fishers of Men
Fishing Imagery in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East
Inbunden, 2016
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The metaphor is a hallmark of Classical Hebrew poetry. Some metaphors, such as “Yhwh is king” or “Yhwh is warrior,” play a foundational role. The same does not hold for metaphors from the fishing industry. Because they had access to only two major freshwater sources, archaeological research …
Life and Mortality in Ugaritic
A Lexical and Literary Study
Inbunden, 2019
515 kr
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While topics such as death, funerary cult, and the netherworld have received considerable scholarly attention in the context of the Ugaritic textual corpus, the related concept of life has been relatively neglected. Life and Mortality in Ugaritic takes as its premise that one cannot grasp the …
