Download or read book Omens and Ideology in the Babylon Inscription of Esarhaddon written by Mordechai Cogan and published by . This book was released on 1983* with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Esarhaddon King of Assyria written by Josette Elayi and published by Lockwood Press. This book was released on 2023-02-15 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Esarhaddon, King of Assyria continues Josette Elayi's narrative journey through the lives of the kings of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. Using both archaeological and textual evidence, Elayi examines the contentious circumstances surrounding Esarhaddon's accession to the throne in 681 BCE, his rebuilding of Babylon, which had been destroyed by his father Sennacherib, his successful campaigns in Media, the Arabian Peninsula, Anatolia, the Caucasus, and the Levant, and his ultimate achievement, the conquest of Egypt in 671 BCE. Throughout, Elayi presents a rich portrait of this enigmatic figure, whose short but impactful reign was plagued by chronic illness and a complex--and ultimately fatal--relationship with his court officials. Yet, through it all, Esarhaddon emerges as one of the most scholarly and most politically successful kings of the empire.
Download or read book Images Power and Politics written by Barbara N. Porter and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 1993 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Assyrians have usually been charcterized as the strongmen of the ancient Near East, controlling their empire largely through military force, terror, and intimidatin. The new interpretation of Esarhaddon's reign offered here, hwever, suggests that his success in dealing with conquered Babylonia lay in his masterful use of non-violent tools of government: public works programs, royal public appearnces, and especially the use of documents which presented different images of the king and his policies to different national audiences. Traces of these techniques in the policies of earlier Assyrian kings suggest that the Assyrians had long used such techniques, as well as terror, to control their empire. This study also prposes some new approaches to reading Assyrian royal inscriptions. It suggests, for example, that Assyrian building documents, although often buried in foundaitons, wer first read to contemporary audiences and were primarily designed for them. An analysis of subtle differences in Esarhaddon's Babylon inscriptions suggests that variants may be clues to the identificaiton of different intended audiences for texts which were once thought of as duplicates. This book combines documentary and archeological evidence to propose a new interpretation of Esarhaddon's reign based onc lose reading of texts. it also proposes a new, more complex model of the techniques by which Assyria succeeded in governing her empire.
Download or read book written by Baruch A. Levine and published by Eisenbrauns. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A huge festschrift comprising 41 essays exploring mainly textual perspectives on Ancient Near Eastern and Jewish history and religious practice.
Download or read book History Historiography and Interpretation written by Tadmor and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-11-27 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At head of title: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Institute of Advanced Studies.
Download or read book Prophetic Divination written by Martti Nissinen and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prophecy was a wide-spread phenomenon in the ancient world - not only in ancient Israel but in the whole Eastern Mediterranean cultural sphere. This is demonstrated by documents from the ancient Near East, that have been the object of Martti Nissinen’s research for more than twenty years. Nissinen's studies have had a formative influence on the study of the prophetic phenomenon. The present volume presents a selection of thirty-one essays, bringing together essential aspects of prophetic divination in the ancient Near East. The first section of the volume discusses prophecy from theoretical perspectives. The second sections contains studies on prophecy in texts from Mari and Assyria and other cuneiform sources. The third section discusses biblical prophecy in its ancient Near Eastern context, while the fourth section focuses on prophets and prophecy in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. Even prophecy in the Dead Sea Scrolls is discussed in the fifth section. The articles are essential reading for anyone studying ancient prophetic phenomenon.
Download or read book Much Ado about Marduk written by Jennifer Finn and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-05-22 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (SANER) is a peer-reviewed series devoted to the publication of monographs pertaining to all aspects of the history, culture, literature, religion, art, and archaeology of the Ancient Near East, from the earliest historical periods to Late Antiquity. The aim of this series is to present in-depth studies of the written and material records left by the civilizations and cultures that populated the various areas of the Ancient Near East: Anatolia, Arabia, Egypt, Iran, the Levant, Mesopotamia, and Syria. Thus, SANER is open to all sorts of works that have something new to contribute and which are relevant to scholars and students within the continuum of regions, disciplines, and periods that constitute the field of Ancient Near Eastern studies, as well as to those in neighboring disciplines, including Biblical Studies, Classics, and Ancient History in general.
Download or read book The Prophets Speak on Forced Migration written by Mark J. Boda and published by SBL Press. This book was released on 2015-03-15 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A valuable resource with productive avenues for inquiry In this collection of essays dealing with the prophetic material in the Hebrew Bible, scholars explore the motifs, effects, and role of forced migration on prophetic literature. Contributors focus on the study of geographical displacement, social identity ethics, trauma studies, theological diversification, hermeneutical strategies in relation to the memory, and the effects of various exilic conditions in order to open new avenues of study into the history of Israelite religion and early Judaism. Features: An introductory essay that presents a history of scholarship and an overview of the collection Ten essays examining the rhetoric of exile in the prophets Current, thorough approaches to the issues and problems related to historical and cultural features of exile in biblical literature
Download or read book Assyrian Royal Inscriptions written by Frederick Mario Fales and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reading the Historical Books written by Patricia Dutcher-Walls and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biblical history can be some of the most difficult material for beginning students to grasp. The conventions of contemporary history writing are quite different from those of ancient Israelite writers. Here a master teacher offers basic orientation to the genre and conventions of the Old Testament historical books, helping students become careful and attentive readers. Written in an accessible style with many ancient and contemporary examples, this book introduces students to some of the phenomena they will encounter in the historical books and provides strategies for understanding their significance. The goal is to make further reading and study of Scripture more informed and sensitive. Sidebars, discussion questions, and further reading suggestions are included.
Download or read book I Have Built You an Exalted House written by Victor Hurowitz and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1992-06-01 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This close synchronic analysis of Exodus 1-2 looks at how the pericope's structure, language, focalization and management of information form its conception and judgement of its events and characters. A coherence of concerns is detectable in Exodus 1-2 with allusions to Genesis and the later chapters of Exodus. One chapter is assigned to each of seven narrative unities and deals in various ways with its narrative problems. The resulting eclectic choice of analytical tools includes the study of Proppian structural functions, repetition, public rhetoric, narrative speeds, order and symbolism.
Download or read book A ur is King A ur is King written by Steven Winford Holloway and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2002 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through sustained analysis of texts and visual sources, this volume traces the checkered career of Neo-Assyrian religious interaction with subject polities of Western Asia through both punitive measures and calculated diplomatic patronage.
Download or read book The Cambridge Ancient History written by John Boardman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-01-16 with total page 938 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume III Part II describes the rise and fall of the great empires of Assyria and Babylonia, the sack of Jerusalem and the exile of the Jews in Babylon.
Download or read book Ancient Prophecy written by Martti Nissinen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation A study of the phenomenon of prophecy as documented in ancient Near Eastern texts and the Hebrew Bible as well as Greek sources, from the twenty-first century BCE to the second century CE.
Download or read book Divination in Ancient Israel and its Near Eastern Environment written by Frederick H. Cryer and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1994-05-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this revealing study, the author suggests that ancient Israel was a 'magic society' like those around it, and similar in many respects to a number of magic-using 'savage' societies studied by modern social anthropology. Although the Old Testament attempts to distinguish between priestly and prophetic divination, this distinction was not sharply drawn in ancient times. References to divination in fact are found in all genres of Israelite literature, implying that many of these practices were performed throughout Israelite society. 'Cryer's investigation of divination in ancient Israel is a masterful synthesis of social and historical analyses of an important yet neglected topic' (Ronald E. Simkins, Catholic Biblical Quarterly).
Download or read book New Avenues in the Study of the Old Testament written by Woude and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-05-09 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Hebrew Bible and Its Interpreters written by William Henry Propp and published by Eisenbrauns. This book was released on 1990 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronology in Israelite historiography / Baruch Halpern -- The Bible in the university / James L. Kugel -- "Sectually explicit" literature from Qumran / Carol A. Newsom -- Eden sketches / William H. Propp -- People and high priesthood in early Maccabean times / James C. VanderKam.
