Download or read book Triumphal accounts in Hebrew and Egyptian written by Richard Abbott and published by Richard Abbott. This book was released on with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ebook contains the text approved by the external and internal PhD examiners for a thesis carried out under the supervision of Dr John Bimson at Trinity College, Bristol, England. It will be of interest to those who wish to explore cross-cultural connections between early Israel and New Kingdom Egypt, as expressed in triumphal literature. The thesis looks at issues to do with the creation of poetry in each of those cultures, and the links between them, as well as investigating when appropriate cross-cultural contacts might have happened to forge common links between them. From the abstract:This study aims to show that the Israel Stele of Merenptah and the Song of the Sea in Exodus 15 share sufficient common compositional principles and poetic devices as to support a similar dating for the two works. Indeed, the specific combinations of large-scale principles and small-scale devices are shown to be unique within their respective cultures. These claims are supported by analysis of a wide spectrum of both Egyptian and Hebrew triumphal material, together with insights drawn from wider studies in poetics and culture. Some original insights into Egyptian principles of poetic composition are suggested, together with the corresponding cross-cultural implications for Israelite poetry. The later textual history of incorporation of the original poetic work into its current narrative context is also considered.
Download or read book Triumphal Accounts in Hebrew and Egyptian written by Richard Bruce Abbott and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Triumphal Accounts in Hebrew and Egyptian written by Richard Bruce Abbott and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis considers the literary structure of the triumphal song recorded in Exodus 15 of the Hebrew Bible, commonly known as the Song of the Sea and attributed in the biblical text primarily to Moses and secondarily to Miriam. This literary structure is investigated in relation to triumphal material and other poetry written in Egypt, predominantly in the New Kingdom period. It is argued that cross-cultural literary influences shaped the construction of the Song of the Sea, to the point that the author's familiarity with Egyptian styles and conventions can still be recognised. The exploration begins with a review of both Hebrew and Egyptian poetry, considering some of the typical patterns used in each culture. In particular, the construction of poetic couplets and the relationships between A- and B-lines of these couplets is studied in order to derive some basic principles of composition in common use. The Israel Stele of Merenptah is chosen as a suitable point of comparison, and the large-scale structures of both this work and the Song of the Sea are compared and contrasted to highlight key areas of stylistic overlap. In particular, the use of chiasmus to structure these works, the use of divine or Pharaonic names as structural markers, and the use of complex arrangements of geographical or ethnic names in each text are highlighted. In the later stages of the work, some additional lines of evidence are reviewed which lend support to the idea that Egyptian habits of writing may have been familiar to writers in early Israel, even after the decline of Egypt's territorial ambitions in the Levant. This in turn suggests ways to understand the subsequent incorporation of the Song of the Sea into the larger Exodus narrative, as well as the social location of the author.
Download or read book Inconsistency in the Torah written by Joshua A. Berman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-12 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inconsistency in the Torah
Download or read book Did I Not Bring Israel Out of Egypt written by James K. Hoffmeier and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hebrew Scriptures consider the exodus from Egypt to be Israel’s formative and foundational event. Indeed, the Bible offers no other explanation for Israel’s origin as a people. It is also true that no contemporary record regarding a man named Moses or the Israelites generally, either living in or leaving Egypt has been found. Hence, many biblical scholars and archaeologists take a skeptical attitude, dismissing the exodus from the realm of history. However, the contributors to this volume are convinced that there is an alternative, more positive approach. Using textual and archaeological materials from the ancient Near East in a comparative way, in conjunction with the Torah’s narratives and with other biblical texts, the contributors to this volume (specialists in ancient Egypt, ancient Near Eastern culture and history, and biblical studies) maintain that the reports in the Hebrew Bible should not be cavalierly dismissed for ideological reasons but, rather, should be deemed to contain authentic memories.
Download or read book The Flame Before Us written by Richard Abbott and published by Matteh Publications. This book was released on 2015-04-16 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conflict and commitment in the shadow of a city’s downfall The raiding ships have come before, but this time it is different. This time the attackers are coming to stay, and defensive walls will not hold them back. Nowhere is safe. One by one, the great kings and their vassal cities collapse as the newcomers advance. The land is already a patchwork of many different peoples, bound together in a fragile web of traditional alliances and rivalries. How will political and personal promises change with the arrival of the new clans? Is war inevitable, or can a different answer be found? Walk with refugees, migrants, and defenders of the land alike, as they struggle to create a different way of life beside the ruins of the old. Can alliance, commitment and love survive the turmoil?
Download or read book The Jews of Medieval Islam written by Daniel Frank and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-11 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains fifteen articles on the communal, social, and intellectual life of medieval Jewry in Islamic lands. The book is divided into three parts. Part I, 'Communities and Their Leaders' is devoted to the old Babylonian center in the East and the Andalusian community in the West. Part II, 'Self-Perceptions and Attitudes Towards Others' investigates the ways in which medieval Jews living under Islam viewed their gentile neighbours and expressed their own identity. Part III, 'Religious Philosophy, Mysticism, and Spirituality in Islam and Judaism' explores the impact of Islamic thought on the Jewish intellectual tradition. The collection depicts a civilization at once unified and diverse, revealing both consistent patterns of leadership and scholarship as well as distinctively local identities and collective memories.
Download or read book The Music of the Most Ancient Nations Particularly of the Assyrians Egyptians and Hebrews written by Carl Engel and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lady of the Lions written by Richard Abbott and published by Richard Abbott. This book was released on 2013 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This short story takes place about 150 years before the start of the full length novel In a Milk and Honeyed Land. The setting of Kephrath itself in the Canaanite hill country will be familiar from the novel, but of course none of the characters overlap. A small glossary at the end will help readers who are not familiar with the novel to orient themselves in this world. Belita-Labiy found it difficult to concentrate, though, with the news rippling around the hill country. So far the raids had not been too close, but from all that she had heard, these groups of men were swift to move, and swift to strike, wherever they pleased. Who could say which town they might visit next?So she knew that her dancing, while apparently as fluent and potent as ever, lacked the whole-hearted commitment that she preferred. It could not be helped, but the distraction nagged at her. So all the while that she danced like Taliy in the earliest garden, and later as her body thrilled and her voice cried out in lovemaking, part of her soul was anxiously flitting around the uplands, trying to guess what would happen next.
Download or read book In a Milk and Honeyed Land written by Richard Abbott and published by Matteh Publications. This book was released on 2016-01-25 with total page 962 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life, love and conflict in the hill country Damariel is apprenticed as a young man by the village priest, whose reckless actions lead to his disgrace. Damariel manages to avoid becoming implicated in the matter and carries on his training, marrying his childhood friend Qetirah shortly before they begin their shared ministry in the town. Feeling ashamed of their continuing inability to have children, Qetirah becomes pregnant by the chief of the four towns, but the pregnancy is difficult. Damariel’s anger and outrage spills over into the marriage. He holds the chief responsible for the situation but cannot see how to get either justice or revenge.
Download or read book Scenes from a Life Sample written by Richard Abbott and published by Matteh Publications. This book was released on 2013-12-31 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What journey would you make to encounter the meaning of a dream? Makty-Rasut is a scribe in New Kingdom Egypt, fashioning tombs for the elite. He lives a comfortable but restless life, moving every few years further upstream along the river Nile. He is content to exercise his talent without examining his origins. Then a series of vivid dreams, interpreted with the help of a senior priest, disrupts this pattern. To solve the riddle, he must go on a journey that will take him outside the Beloved Land and away from the life that he knows. His travels take him into the neighbouring province of Canaan, to a hill-country village called Kephrath, and to a way of life he has never considered. This is a free sample download of the whole novel.
Download or read book The Historical Bible The heroes and crises of early Hebrew history written by Charles Foster Kent and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Heroes and Crises of Early Hebrew History from the Creation to the Death of Moses written by Charles Foster Kent and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Interviews of Kephrath Nikleos and Kastiandra written by Richard Abbott and published by Richard Abbott. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is one of a series of character interviews from The Flame Before Us. This interview is with Nikleos and Kastiandra, who travelled with their Sherden clan east across the sea and then south from Wilios. The clan has now settled peaceably outside the town of Yabesh, to the east of the River and just outside the hill country. If you like the interview and extract, The Flame Before Us is available as a full-length novel. The Flame Before Us: Conflict and commitment in the shadow of a city's downfall The raiding ships have come before, but this time it is different. This time the attackers are coming to stay. The great kings and their vassals collapse as the newcomers advance. Walk with refugees, migrants, and defenders of the land alike, as they struggle to create a different way of life beside the ruins of the old. Can alliance, commitment and love survive the turmoil?
Download or read book Scenes from a Life written by Richard Abbott and published by Matteh Publications. This book was released on 2013-12-21 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What journey would you make to encounter the meaning of a dream? Makty-Rasut is a scribe in New Kingdom Egypt, fashioning tombs for the elite. He lives a comfortable but restless life, moving every few years further upstream along the river Nile. He is content to exercise his talent without examining his origins. Then a series of vivid dreams, interpreted with the help of a senior priest, disrupts this pattern. To solve the riddle, he must go on a journey that will take him outside the Beloved Land and away from the life that he knows. His travels take him into the neighbouring province of Canaan, to a hill-country village called Kephrath, and to a way of life he has never considered.
Download or read book The Music of the Most Ancient Nations written by Carl Engel and published by London : J. Murray. This book was released on 1870 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Man in the Cistern written by Richard Abbott and published by Richard Abbott. This book was released on 2013 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set about ten years after the conclusion of the full-length novel In a Milk and Honeyed Land, this short story follows Damariel and Nepheret, seers and priests of the town of Kephrath, as they tackle a new challenge to the four towns. A group of migrants has set up an encampment just down the trackway towards Shalem. What are their intentions? Do they come in peace or war? “They are more of a threat to themselves just now. But two things might happen. One is that men might join, and stay, who have some weapons and some real aggression. Then they might start to intrude on surrounding towns including this Kephrath. Or, and maybe more likely, they could bring a plague of sickness into the area. These are not men who know how to live outside, not for the most part. A few have been slaves, but most of them are workers who have always been told what to do. They are used to living in houses. The main thing that protects Kephrath is that they do not know how to act in concert as a group. They are just like a rough heap of gravel. But perhaps someone could turn them into a rock and start to pound others around them.”
