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Author | : Yoram Cohen |
Publisher | : Society of Biblical Lit |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2013-09-25 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1589837541 |
This volume presents the original texts and annotated translations of a collection of Mesopotamian wisdom compositions and related texts of the Late Bronze Age (ca. 1500–1200 B.C.E.) found at the ancient Near Eastern sites of Hattuša, Emar, and Ugarit. These wisdom compositions constitute the missing link between the great Sumerian wisdom corpus and early Akkadian wisdom literature of the Old Babylonian period, on the one hand, and the wisdom compositions of the first millennium B.C.E., on the other. Included here are works such as the Ballad of Early Rulers, Hear the Advice, and The Date-Palm and the Tamarisk, as well as proverb collections from Ugarit and Hattuša. A detailed introduction provides an assessment of the place of wisdom literature in the ancient curriculum and library collections.
Author | : Wilfred G. Lambert |
Publisher | : Eisenbrauns |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9780931464942 |
In Babylonian studies 'Wisdom' is used to cover a group of texts similar in scope to the Biblical Wisdom books: discussions on the problem of suffering, teaching on the good life, fables or contest literature, and proverbs.
Author | : Mayer Gruber |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
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Author | : Raphael Greenberg |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2019-11-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107111463 |
An up-to-date, systematic depiction of Bronze Age societies of the Levant, their evolution, and their interactions and entanglements with neighboring regions.
Author | : Brendon C. Benz |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 655 |
Release | : 2016 |
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ISBN | : 1646022769 |
Author | : Takayoshi Oshima |
Publisher | : Mohr Siebeck |
Total Pages | : 664 |
Release | : 2015-02-12 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9783161533891 |
Takayoshi Oshima analyses the two most important Babylonian wisdom texts: Ludlul Bel Nemeqi (also known as the Babylonian Job or the Babylonian Righteous Sufferer) and the so-called Babylonian Theodicy. On the basis of the hitherto published as well as newly available, unpublished cuneiform manuscripts, the author establishes a new critical text for each poem and gives an English translation. He offers detailed philological and critical notes to the texts, discussing both the textual and the interpretive issues evoked by individual words and passages. In addition, however, each poem is preceded by a lengthy discussion of its origins, intention, and plot, as well as by more general considerations of its cultural and historical background, including short but important observations on the relationship to Old Testament wisdom literature.
Author | : Marwan Kilani |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2019-10-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004416609 |
In Byblos in the Late Bronze Age, Marwan Kilani reconstructs the “biography” of the city of Byblos during the Late Bronze Age, exploring its interactions and development in relation with the contemporary local and macroregional cultural and geopolitical reality.
Author | : Grazyna Bakowska-Czerner |
Publisher | : Archaeopress Archaeology |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Magic |
ISBN | : 9781784912475 |
This volume represents a selection of contributions on Mediterranean themes from a wider international interdisciplinary conference on Magical Texts in Ancient Civilizations, organised by the Centre for Comparative Studies of Civilizations at Jagiellonian University in Kraków in Poland between 27-28 June 2013. The meeting welcomed researchers from Hungary, Italy, Poland and Ukraine, covering various disciplines including comparative civilizations, comparative religions, linguistics, archaeology, anthropology, history and philosophy. In the past 'magic' was often misunderstood as irrational behaviour, in contrast to the tradition of philosophical or rational thought mostly based on Greek models. Evidence collected from ancient high cultures, like that of Pharaonic Egypt, includes massive amounts of documents and treatises of all kinds related to what has been labelled 'magic'. Today it cannot be written off as merely a primitive or 'lesser human' phenomenon: the awareness of magic remains to the present day in many societies, at all social levels, and has not been generally replaced by what might be considered as more advanced thinking. The researches in this volume focus heavily on Egypt (in particular Predynastic, Pharaonic, Hellenistic, Roman and Christian evidence), but Near Eastern material was also presented from Pagan (Ugaritic) and Christian (Syriac) times.
Author | : William G. Dever |
Publisher | : Eisenbrauns |
Total Pages | : 616 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1575060817 |
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, this collection of erudite essays concentrates on the archaeology of ancient Israel, Canaan, and neighboring nations.
Author | : Arthur Keefer |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2022-04-14 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1009118463 |
In this book, Arthur Keefer offers a timely assessment of Ecclesiastes and what it has to do with the meaning of life. Drawing on recent psychological research, he argues that this Hebrew Bible text associates the meaning of life with various types of suffering in life. Keefer here situates Ecclesiastes within its ancient intellectual world. Offering an analysis of contemporary texts from Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, he demonstrates that concerns about meaning and suffering were widespread in the greater Mediterranean world. Ecclesiastes, however, handled the matters of suffering and meaning in an unprecedented way and to an unprecedented degree. With its rigorous commitment to precise definitions of life's meaning, Keefer's book provides a comprehensive set of definitions for “the meaning of life” as well as a conclusive point of reference for interpreters of Ecclesiastes. It also opens avenues for the interdisciplinary interpretation of texts from the ancient world.