Download or read book La Mediterranee Et Le Moyen written by Pierre Birot and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The First Ninety Years written by Lluís Feliu and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is dedicated to Miguel Civil in celebration of his 90th birthday. Civil has been one of the most influential scholars in the field of Sumerian studies over the course of his long career. This anniversary presents a welcome occasion to reflect on some aspects of the field in which he has been such a driving force.
Download or read book Yavneh written by Raz Kletter and published by Saint-Paul. This book was released on 2010 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the words of late Professor Moshe Kochavi, the Philistine repository pit at Yavneh is the kind of discovery made only once every fifty years. It is the richest repository pit ever found from Bronze and Iron Ages Israel/Palestine, containing thousands of cultic finds originating from a temple, including an unprecedented number - more than a hundred - of cult stands (so-called 'architectural models') carrying rich figurative art, dozens of fire-pans, chalices and other objects. The present volume includes the full publication of the excavation, the stratigraphy, the cult stands and the figures detached from cult stands, several clay and stone altars and some pottery vessels related to burning of plant material, most likely incense. This exceptional book raises a host of highly important and intriguing questions. Is this a favissa, or even a genizah? Why are many cult stands badly broken, while some are intact - were cult stands broken on purpose? What is the explanation for the unique stratigraphy and for the layer of gray ash in the pit - was fire kindled inside as part of a ritual? How do we know that these finds are Philistine? Are they part of the 'furniture' of the temple or objects dedicated by worshippers as votives? Do the figures on the cult stands represent mortal beings, or divinities? If divinities, can we relate them with Biblical or extra-biblical data on the gods of the Philistines? What was the function/s of cult stands? Were they models of buildings, supports for images, offering tables, altars, or perhaps incense burners? Why are female figures dominant, while male figures are virtually absent? In discussing such topics, Yavneh I treats issues that are central to many fields of study: religion and cult in Iron Age Israel/Palestine; the history and archaeology of the Philistines and their 'western' relations; Near Eastern iconography, the meaning of cult stands/architectural models and the understanding of votive objects and of repository pits in general. Literally salvaged from the teeth of a bulldozer, these rare finds are now published. Generations of scholars will discuss and reinterpret them - there is no 'final word' for such finds and hence, this final excavation volume is not an end, but a beginning.
Download or read book Moyen Orient et Oc an Indien XVIe XIXe s written by Société d'Histoire de l'Orient and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Debates on Islam and Knowledge in Malaysia and Egypt written by Mona Abaza and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comparative study of the sociological field in two different Muslim societies: Malaysia and Egypt. It analyses the process of the production of 'knowledge' through the example of the modern 'Islamization of knowledge debate' and local empirical variations.
Download or read book Resilience and Urban Risk Management written by Damien Serre and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2012-10-08 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resilience and Urban Risk Management presents the latest progress made in designing resilient towns, and identifies leads to be explored for attaining the objective of systematically integrating risks into urban environments The aim of the book is to provide guidance in designing and planning future cities, and to create a new form of risk manageme
Download or read book L Am rique et le Moyen Orient written by Fouad Khoury-Helou and published by Editions Hermann. This book was released on 2015 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ce livre s'adresse a tout lecteur desireux de comprendre l'histoire du Moyen-Orient, ainsi que les interactions avec l'Occident qui ont abouti a la situation actuelle, souvent faite d'une grande incomprehension. Il en propose une lecture differente, a mi-chemin entre une perception occidentale et une perception arabo-islamique . Sans jamais verser dans l'accusation et en proposant une explication rationnelle et pragmatique des politiques occidentales, l'auteur etablit les responsabilites de l'Occident et des Etats-Unis dans le cours de l'histoire moyen-orientale. Il montre qu'Israel semble partager, plus qu'on ne le croit, un destin commun avec les pays arabo-islamiques, a savoir une forte dependance a l'egard de la politique americaine. La montee en puissance de l'islamisme politique n'est donc en grande partie que la resultante indirecte de ces enjeux, bien qu'elle s'inscrive dans l'identite religieuse et politique des pays concernes.
Download or read book The Syriac World written by Francoise Briquel Chatonnet and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-20 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive survey of Syriac Christianity over three thousand years Syriac is often referred to as the third main language of Christianity, along with Latin and Greek, and it remains a foundational classical, literary, and religious language throughout the world. Originating in Mesopotamia along the Roman and Parthian frontiers, it was never the language of a powerful state or ethnic group, but with the coming of Christianity it developed into a rich religious and cultural tradition. At the same time that Christianity was making its way through Europe, Syriac missionaries were founding churches from the Mediterranean coast to Persia, converting the Turkic tribes of Central Asia, and building communities in India and China. This comprehensive work tells the underexplored story of the Syriac world over three thousand years, from its pre-Christian roots in the Aramaic tribes and the ancient Near East to its vibrant expressions in modern diaspora churches. Enhanced with images, songs, poems, and important primary texts, this book shows the importance of Syriac history, theology, and literature in the twenty-first century.
Download or read book Neandertals and Modern Humans in Western Asia written by Takeru Akazawa and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-12-27 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating volume, the Middle Paleolithic archaeology of the Middle East is brought to the current debate on the origins of modern humans. These collected papers gather the most up-to-date archaeological discoveries of Western Asia - a region that is often overshadowed by African or European findings - but the only region in the world where both Neandertal and early modern human fossils have been found. The collection includes reports on such well known cave sites as Kebara, Hayonim, and Qafzeh, among others. The information and interpretations available here are a must for any serious researcher or student of anthropology or human evolution.
Download or read book The Coins of Herod written by Donald Tzvi Ariel and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-12-30 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herod, ruler of Judea at a pivotal time (40–4 BCE) in the region’s history, was Rome’s most famous client king. In this volume, Herod’s coinage benefits from a comprehensive reappraisal. The coins and dies have been thoroughly examined, resulting in innovative iconographic and technological interpretations. Study of the coins’ presence in hoards, their archaeological contexts and geographical distribution, together with other typological, epigraphic and numismatic observations, have aided in establishing that all of the types were minted in Jerusalem. A new relative chronology of Herod’s dated and undated coins is the most important by-product of this study. Finally, an attempt is made to peg this seriation to known events within the king’s reign.
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