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19 produkter
Illness and Health Care in the Ancient Near East
The Role of the Temple in Greece, Mesopotamia, and Israel
Häftad, 1995
995 kr
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Representation of Speech in Biblical Hebrew Narrative
A Linguistic Analysis
Häftad, 2003
946 kr
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Exodus Retold
Ancient Exegesis of the Departure from Egypt in Wis 15-21 and 19:1-9
Av Peter Enns
Häftad, 1997
619 kr
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"Each Man Cried Out to His God"
The Specialized Religion of Canaanite and Phoenician Seafarers
Av Aaron Brody
Häftad, 1998
619 kr
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Two Nations Under God: The Deuteronomistic History of Solomon and the Dual Monarchies
Volume 1: The Reign of Solomon and the Rise of Jeroboam
Häftad, 1993
762 kr
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Two Nations Under God: The Deuteronomistic History of Solomon and the Dual Monarchies
Volume 2: The Reign of Jeroboam, the Fall of Israel, and the Reign of Josiah
Häftad, 1994
767 kr
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Fruit of the Vine
Viticulture in Ancient Israel
Häftad, 2000
619 kr
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The practice of viticulture--from planting vines to drinking wine--in Israelite culture is the focus of Walsh's investigation. Viticulture, no less than drinking, marked the social sphere of Israelite practitioners, and so its details were often enlisted to describe social relations in the Hebrew …
"Of Wood and Stone"
The Significance of Israelite Cultic Items in the Bible and its Early Interpreters
Häftad, 2001
762 kr
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The Hebrew Bible contains varying opinions concerning which cultic items or objects used in worship were appropriate for use within YHWHism and which were not. By analyzing every passage which mentions "high places" (bamot), sacred trees or poles (asherim), standing stones, altars, and cultic …
Two Strange Beasts
Leviathan and Behemoth in the Second Temple
Häftad, 2006
685 kr
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The ancient myth of a battle between a Divine Warrior and a primordial monster undergoes significant development in postbiblical and rabbinic literatures. This development is the focus of the present study. In particular, it examines the monsters Leviathan and Behemoth, showing that the …
Under Every Green Tree
Popular Religion in Sixth-century Judah
Häftad, 2001
693 kr
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"By focusing on the forms of religious expression which the sixth-century prophets condemn, we can begin to apprehend the diversity which characterized exilic religion. Moreover, by recognizing the polemical nature of the prophetic critiques and by resolving to read these critiques without …
Gendered Language of Warfare in the Israelite-Assyrian Encounter
Häftad, 2004
807 kr
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Recognizing gendered metaphors as literary and ideological tools that biblical and Assyrian authors used in the representation of warfare and its aftermath, this study compares the gendered literary complexes that authors on both sides of the Israelite-Assyrian encounter developed in order to claim …
Biblical Metaphor Reconsidered
A Cognitive Approach to Poetic Prophecy in Jeremiah 1-24
Av Job Y. Jindo
Häftad, 2010
888 kr
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How do we understand the characteristically extensive presence of imagery in biblical prophecy? Poetic metaphor in prophetic writings has commonly been understood solely as an artistic flourish intended to create certain rhetorical effects. It thus appears expendable and unrelated to the core …
Administrative Reality and Scribal Apparatus in the Middle Babylonian Period, with Accompanying Texts
Inbunden, 2026
4754 kr
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This book provides editions of 325 Akkadian texts, reconstructs aspects of the political recording process, and presents evidence of legal, epistolary, and administrative intertextuality at Kassite Nippur. Combining ideas from scholars in Assyriology and Political Science, it states that scribes …
