Schweich Lectures on Biblical Archaeology – serie
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From Joseph to Joshua
Biblical Traditions in the Light of Archaeology
Av H H Rowley
Inbunden, 1950
805 kr
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The story of the Exodus has been one of the most vexing historico-Biblical problems to confront scholars. The fundamental chronological problems are of the utmost complexity, yet they materially affect the view that is taken of Israel's religious development. Delivered in 1948, these lectures …
The Text of the Epistles
A Disquisition Upon the Corpus Paulinum
Av G Zuntz
Inbunden, 1953
1071 kr
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Delivered in 1946, these lectures discuss the use of textual criticisms in the attempt to recover the original text of Paul's Epistles. In particular, there is a detailed analysis of the manuscript P46.
Amorites and Canaanites
Inbunden, 1966
1515 kr
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From the Biblical record it is clear that the principal occupants of Palestine at the time of the advent of the Israelites were the Amorites and the Canaanites. Who were these two peoples? Excavations have shown that towards the end of the third millennium nomadic groups disrupted the urban …
Semitic Writing
From Pictograph to Alphabet
Av G R Driver
Inbunden, 1976
1249 kr
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This is the third edition of the late Sir Godfrey Driver's Schweich Lectures, first delivered in 1944. The present edition is based on extensive revisions and additions made by the author himself.The third edition takes account of research and discoveries in the fields of Semitic epigraphy and the …
Hazor
Av Yigael Yadin
Inbunden, 1972
983 kr
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Hazor was the largest city in Palestine in the Canaanite period and cultural and a commercial centre of some consequence in the Fertile Crescent, as well as being an important bastion of the Israelite Kingdom. Professor Yigael Yadin conducted extensive excavations on the site of the town between …
Archaeology and the Dead Sea Scrolls
Av R de Vaux
Inbunden, 1973
805 kr
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The late Fr. Roland de Vaux was the excavator of Qumran, the home of the religious establishment to which the Dead Sea Scrolls belonged. He was also the organizer of the international team charged with editing the manuscripts. He was, therefore, singularly well placed to apply the evidence of …
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre Jerusalem
Inbunden, 1974
429 kr
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The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem has suffered many vicissitudes. A Constantinian foundation, it was twice destroyed and rebuilt before the Crusaders took it in hand. Respected by Saladin at his conquest, the church remained much as the Crusaders left it, until in 1808 a fire broke out …
Some Aspects of Hittite Religion
Av O R Gurney
Häftad, 1977
610 kr
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Parallels between Hittite civilisation and the Old Testament belong largely to the field of religion. In the first of his three Schweich lectures (delivered in 1976) Professor Gurney traces the historical development of the Hittite pantheon, while in his second and third lectures he selects some …
Manuscript, Society and Belief in Early Christian Egypt
Inbunden, 1979
240 kr
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The origins and development of the Church in Egypt remain one of the vexed problems of early Christian history. In his Schweich Lectures, delivered in 1977, Dr C. H. Roberts examines the evidence of the Christian papyri discovered in Egypt to see what light they cast on the problems and how far …
Ethiopia and the Bible
The Schweich Lectures 1967
Häftad, 1988
263 kr
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Traditionally Ethiopia has formed a bridge between civilizations, with Jerusalem as vital as Aksum in the national consciousness of the Ethiopians. In this volume, Professor Ullendorff investigates the relationship of Ethiopia to the Bible. He considers the historical background, translations of …
Nebuchadrezzar and Babylon
The Schweich Lectures of The British Academy 1983
Häftad, 1991
327 kr
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This new examination of the region of Nebuchadrezzar II of Babylon (605-562 BC) includes revised interpretations of the Babylonian Chronicles for his reign, especially for the years of the campaigns against the West and the capture of Jerusalem.Excavations at Babylon are used to give a view of the …
Mari and the Early Israelite Experience
The Schweich Lectures, 1984
Häftad, 1992
395 kr
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The broad spectrum of the Mari documents provides innumerable opportunities for comparative research into Early Israel, the Bible and Biblical Hebrew. The present volume utilizes these possibilities to obtain a new perspective on Early Israelite times.In 1936, a French archaeological expedition to …
Idols of the People
Miniature Images of Clay in the Ancient Near East
2004
438 kr
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These lectures investigate the numerous miniature baked clay images from Canaan, Israel and Judah (c. 1600-600 BC). They constitute vital evidence for the imagery and domestic rituals of ordinary people, but significantly are not explicitly mentioned in the Old Testament. These terracottas are …
The Schweich Lectures and Biblical Archaeology
Inbunden, 2011
451 kr
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The first Schweich Lectures were given by Professor S. R. Driver of Oxford University in 1908 and the British Academy celebrated the centenary of the lectures with a single lecture given by Professor Davies in 2008. This book is an amplified version of that lecture, with each of its three chapters …
The Ugaritic Texts and the Origins of West-Semitic Literary Composition
Inbunden, 2012
805 kr
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The discovery and decryption of Ugaritic cuneiform tablets in the 1920s has given scholars an insight into the development of alphabetic writing and the origins of biblical poetry.In this book, based on his Schweich Lectures given in 2007, Professor Dennis Pardee describes the origins of the …
Religion, Language and Community in the Roman Near East
Constantine to Muhammad
Inbunden, 2013
782 kr
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This book explores the way in which different ethnic, religious and linguistic communities co-existed and conflicted in the Roman Near East in the three centuries between the conversion of the Emperor Constantine to Christianity in 312 and the beginning of Muhammad's preaching in about 610. In the …
Levantine Epigraphy and History in the Achaemenid Period (539-322 BCE)
Inbunden, 2015
696 kr
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Inscriptions discovered since 1980 and fresh epigraph research have revealed much about the Archaeminid period in the Levant (533-332 BCE). André Lemaire concentrates on three areas where new data has shed light on the societies living in the largest empire that the world had known to that …
Re-Excavating Jerusalem
Archival Archaeology
Av Kay Prag
Inbunden, 2018
628 kr
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Re-excavating Jerusalem: Archival Archaeology is concerned with the archaeology and history of Jerusalem, and with the story of its people over many centuries. It is a story of ongoing crisis, of adaptations and inheritance under successive rulers, where each generation has owed a cultural debt to …
Ancient Synagogues in Palestine
A Re-evaluation Nearly a Century After Sukenik's Schweich Lectures
Av Jodi Magness
Inbunden, 2024
1316 kr
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Dozens of ancient synagogues have been discovered around the Mediterranean, most of which date to the fourth-sixth centuries CE and are concentrated in Palestine. In the 1930 Schweich Lectures, Eleazar Lipa Sukenik established a typology and chronology for these buildings. Ancient Synagogues in …
The Road to Armageddon
The Assyrian Empire in the Seventh Century BC
Av Karen Radner
Inbunden, 2027
1422 kr
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The Road to Armageddon: The Assyrian Empire in the Seventh Century BC offers a new interpretation of how the first Mesopotamian empire ended. Rather than narrating sudden collapse or gradual decline, it analyses the structural transformation that occurred when imperial coordination thinned while …
