Immigration and Emigration Within the Ancient Near East
Author | : Karel van Lerberghe |
Publisher | : Peeters Publishers |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789068317275 |
(Peeters 1995)
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Author | : Karel van Lerberghe |
Publisher | : Peeters Publishers |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789068317275 |
(Peeters 1995)
Author | : Justin Yoo |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2018-10-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781351254731 |
This book brings together recent developments in modern migration theory, a wide range of sources, new and old tools revisited (from GIS to epigraphic studies, from stable isotope analysis to the study of literary sources) and case studies from the ancient eastern Mediterranean that illustrate how new theories and techniques are helping to give a better understanding of migratory flows and diaspora communities in the ancient Near East. A geographical gap has emerged in studies of historical migration as recent works have focused on migration and mobility in the western part of the Roman Empire and thus fail to bring a significant contribution to the study of diaspora communities in the eastern Mediterranean. Bridging this gap represents a major scholarly desideratum, and, by drawing upon the experiences of previously neglected migrant and diaspora communities in the eastern Mediterranean from the Hellenistic period to the early mediaeval world, this collection of essays approaches migration studies with new perspectives and methodologies, shedding light not only on the study of migrants in the ancient world, but also on broader issues concerning the rationale for mobility and the creation and features of diaspora identities.
Author | : Robert K. G. Temple |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
The extraordinary discovery of the Underworld of the ancient Greeks. We tend to think of ancient stories of visits to the Underworld by Odysseus, Orpheus and Aeneas as being poetic fictions, but Robert Temple shows here that in fact, the Ancients believed the Underworld to be a place that actually existed. It was maintained by a college of priests who would prepare, through ritual fasting, prayer, animal sacrifice, bathing and solitude, whoever wished to meet the shades of the dead. The candidate would then be led through the entrance to the Underworld, a dark, terrifying place, far underground, where after a series of ordeals and apparitions, they would finally meet with the ghosts of the dead. All these features recur in the ancient stories. Recently Robert Temple heard that a 1962 archaeological expedition had actually discovered the entrance in Italy.This is the amazing story of what he found when he was finally allowed to make his own descent into the Underworld - the River Styx, false doors, a snake pit and carved invocations to the Goddess of the Underworld, all revealed for the first time since ancient times.
Author | : Mark S. Smith |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2003-11-06 |
Genre | : Bibles |
ISBN | : 0195167686 |
One of the leading scholars of ancient West Semitic religion discusses polytheism vs. monotheism by covering the fluidity of those categories in the ancient Near East. He argues that Israel's social history is key to the development of monotheism.
Author | : Chaim Cohen |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 561 |
Release | : 2004-06-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 157506541X |
Moshe Weinfeld’s contributions to the study of the Bible and its literature, as well as the social and political situation of the Bible in its ancient Near Eastern context, are well known. In this volume, 35 colleagues and students contribute essays organized according to four subjects: (1) Exegetical and Literary Studies on the Bible; (2) Studies on Biblical Hebrew, History, and Geography; (3) Ancient Near Eastern and Amarna Studies; and (4) Studies on Qumran, Post biblical Judaism, and the Jewish Medieval Commentaries. A bibliography and biography of the honoree round out the volume.