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• 1 The matrix of the Muslim world: the Near East in the early seventh century 2 The birth of the Islamic state 3 Conquest and division in the time of the Rashidun caliphs 4 The Umayyad caliphate 5 The early 'Abbasid caliphate 6 The middle 'Abbasid caliphate 7 The early Islamic economy 8 The structure of politics in the Muslim commonwealth 9 The Buyid confederation 10 The Kurds 11 The Hamdanids 12 Bedouin political movements and dynasties 13 The Eastern Iranian world in the tenth and early eleventh centuries 14 Early Islamic Egypt and the Fatimid empire Postscript: the coming of the Seljuks.
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Covers the history of the near east from the birth of Muhammad to the fall of the Umayyad and Abbasid caliphates, allowing students to trace the history of Islam and be introduced to the historiographical debates surround its rise and collapse. The text is supported by genealogical tables and maps which provide strong background information for students who have not previously studied near east history before. Coverage of eastern Iran and Central Asia, including dynasties like the Seljuks, the Samanids and Ghaznevids, has been greatly expanded giving students the benefit of comprehensive coverage of the region.
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• Introduction: Rewriting Arab History, 1516-1800
• The Arab Lands
• Sources for the study of the Ottoman Arab lands
• "Decline" and decentralization
• State and society
• Local notables and localization
• Households
• Households and localization
• Artisans
• Rural populations
• Non-Muslims and non-Sunnis
• Underrepresented populations
• Conclusion
• Chapter 1: Land and Peoples
• Regions and nomenclature
• Geographical features
• Peoples
• Religious minorities
• Conclusion
• Chapter 2: The Ottoman Conquest of the Arab Lands
• The rise of the Ottomans
• The Mamluk Sultanate (1250-1517)
• The Safavids
• The Portuguese
• Conquest of the Mamluks
• Suleyman I's conquest of Iraq
• Yemen
• North Africa
• Conclusion
• Chapter 3: The Organization of the Ottoman Provincial Administration
• Administrative subdivisions
• Land tenure
• Early challenges to Ottoman rule
• Chapter 4: Crisis and Change in the Seventeenth Century
• The "decline" paradigm
• The crisis of the seventeenth century
• Competing households
• Janissary hegemony in the Arab provinces
• Jelali governors and their equivalents
• The loss of Yemen
• The Koeprulu reforms
• Chapter 5: Provincial Notables in the Eighteenth Century
• Ayan
• The ayan household
• Georgian mamluks in ayan households
• Eunuchs
• Conclusion
• Chapter 6: Religious and Intellectual Life
• The religious milieu
• Religious institutions and personnel
• The ulema
• Sufism
• Changes to religious and intellectual life in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
• Conclusion
• Chapter 7: Urban Life and Trade
• Arab provincial cities
• Urban change in the Ottoman era
• Government regulation of markets
• Guilds
• Long-distance trade
• The Red Sea coffee trade and its cultural effects
• Conclusion
• Chapter 8: Rural Life
• Land tenure
• Village life
• Cash crops
• Migration and change
• Tribes
• Conclusion
• Chapter 9: Non-Normative Populations I: Non-Muslims-- the Poor and Disabled
• Religious minorities
• Jews
• Syrian Catholics
• Jews and Christians in financial service
• Twelver Shia
• Druze, Alawis (Nusayris), Yazidis
• The poor and disabled
• Conclusion
• Chapter 10: Non-Normative Populations II: Women, Non-Elite Slaves, Eunuchs
• Stereotype and reality: veiling and the harem
• Women in the household
• Marriage
• Inheritance
• Occupations
• Non-elite slavery
• Eunuchs
• Conclusion
• Chapter 11: Ideological and Political Changes in the Late Eighteenth Century (and
• Afterward)
• Agricultural crisis
• Military challenges and attempted reform under Selim III
• Nineteenth-century reforms
• European imperial encroachment
• Sufism and anti-imperialism
• Conclusion: The Ottoman Arab provinces after 1800
• Conclusion: Transformations under Ottoman Rule
• The effects of Ottoman rule
• Turk vs. Arab, Balkan vs. Arab? Persistent scholarly dichotomies
• Present-day relevance
• Ottoman Sultans
• Political Chronology
• Glossary
• Index.
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The Arab Lands under Ottoman Rule assesses the effects of Ottoman rule on the Arab Lands of Egypt, Greater Syria, Iraq, and Yemen between 1516 and 1800. Drawing attention to the important history of these regions, the book challenges outmoded perceptions of this period as a demoralizing prelude to the rise of Arab nationalism and Arab nation-states in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. As well as exploring political events and developments, it delves into the extensive social, cultural, and economic changes that helped to shape the foundations of today's modern Middle and Near East. In doing so, it provides a detailed view of society, incorporating all socio-economic classes, as well as women, religious minorities, and slaves. This second edition has been significantly revised and updated and reflects the developments in research and scholarship since the publication of the first edition. Engaging with a wide range of primary sources and enhanced by a variety of maps and images to illustrate the text, The Arab Lands under Ottoman Rule is a unique and essential resource for students of early modern Ottoman history and the early modern Middle East.
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• Acknowledgements Note on transliteration and dates List of figures List of maps Introduction: Rewriting Arab history, 1516-1800 *Lands and peoples*The Ottoman conquest of the Arab lands*The organization of the Ottoman provincial administration*Crisis and change in the seventeenth century*Provincial notables in the eighteenth century*Religious and intellectual life*Urban life and trade*Rural life*Marginal groups and minority populations*Ideological and political changes in the late eighteenth century*Transformations under Ottoman rule Bibliographical essay Ottoman sultans to 1839 Political chronology Glossary Index.
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Designed as the successor to P.M. Holt's classic 1966 book Egypt and the Fertile Crescent, here for the first time in forty years is a comprehensive survey of the Arab Lands under Ottoman rule. This book is written for students of Middle Eastern and Ottoman history, as well as scholars and general readers looking for historical background on the Arab world. It presents a knowledgeable, unbiasedand insightful guide to the diversity and complexity of society in the Arab lands during the centuries between the region's incorporation into the Ottoman Empire and the wrenching socio-political changes of the 19th century. Lucidly written, the book introduces the diverse groups who made up Ottoman Arab society government officials, merchants and shopkeepers, peasants, religious scholars, women, ethnic and religious minorities. It shows how their fortunes changed during these pivotal centuries and demonstrates how Ottoman rule transformed the region's political, economic, intellectual and religious life.
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• 1:The matrix of the Muslim world: the near East in the early seventh century
• 2: The Birth of the Islamic State
• 3: Conquest and division in the time of the Rashidun Caliphs
• 4: The Umayyad Caliphate
• 5: The early 'Abbasid Caliphate'
• 6: The Middle 'Abbasid caliphate
• 7: The structure of politics in the Muslim commonwealth
• 8: The Buyid confederation
• 9: The Kurds
• 10: The Hamdanids
• 11: Bedouin political movements and dynasties
• 12: Early Islamic Egypt and the Fatimid empire.
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Based on original Arabic sources, the new edition of this well-established text has been comprehensively revised. The book covers the life of Muhammad and the birth of Islam, through the great days of the Ummayad and Abbasid Caliphates (8th-10th centuries), to the period of political fragmentation which followed it when Islam lost its core unity, never to be recovered.
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The rise of Constantinople and the later Ottoman Empire are well known, less well understood are the three centuries in between. This book poses the questions, what led to the decline of the Byzantine Empire and what happened in the intervening years before the rise of the Ottomans?
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From Byzantium to the Mongols to the Sultans of Rum, this acclaimed book offers an important insight into the evocative history of Turkey before the coming of Ottoman power. Turkey forms a historical bridge between Europe and Asia and as such has played a pivotal role throughout history. The rise of Constantinople and the later Ottoman Empire are well known: less well understood are developments in the three centuries in-between. What led to the decline of the Byzantine Empire and what happened in the intervening years before the rise of the Ottomans? Translated from the original French, this classic work examines the history of the Turkey that eventually gave rise to an imperial power whose influence spanned East and West.
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• Introduction.
• SECTION I: THE YEARS OF THE NOTABLES. 1. Egypt to 1952. 2. Iraq to 1958. 3. Syria and Lebanon to 1958. 4. Palestine and Transjordan to 1950. 5. Turkey to 1950. 6. Iran to 1960. 7. Arabia to the 1960s.
• SECTION II: 8. Egypt 1952-89. 9. Iraq 1958-89. 10. Syria and Lebanon 1958-89. 11. Israel, Jordan and the Palestinians. 12. Turkey 1950-89. 13. Iran 1960-89. 14. Arabia from the 1960s to 1989.
• SECTION III: THE NEAR EAST IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 15. European Predominance and Its Decline 1923-56. 16. Superpowers and Regional Powers 1956-89.
• SECTION IV: THE NEAR EAST 1989-95. 17. Introduction: Changes 1989-95. 18. Egypt 1989-95. 19. Iraq 1989-95. 20. Syria 1989-95. 21. Lebanon 1989-95. 22. Israel 1989-95. 23. Jordan 1989-95. 24. The Palestinians 1989-95. 25. Turkey 1989-95. 26. Iran 1989-95. 27. Arabia 1989-95. 28. International and Regional Affairs 1989-95. Bibliographical Guide. Glossary. List of Rulers. Maps. Index.
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This clear, balanced and authoritative survey of the history of the region is now fully up to date again. The text contains a general regional introduction, followed by a series of country-by-country analyses, and a section which places the Near East in the international context. Professor Yapp' s new edition covers recent dramatic events including the end of the Cold War, the Kuwayt Crisis of 1990/91, and the continuing conflict in Israel, as well as assessing the huge social and economic changes in the region. It will be essential reading for students and scholars concerned with modern middle eastern history and politics of the middle east.
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• Part 1 Social, economic and political change in the Near East: general
• society
• economy
• politics. Part 2 The years of the notables: Egypt to 1952
• Iraq to 1958
• Syria and Lebanon to 1958
• Syria
• Lebanon
• Palestine and Transjordan to 1950
• Palestine
• Transjordan
• Turkey to 1950
• Iran to 1960
• Arabia to the 1960s - general, Saudi Arabia to 1964, North Yemen to 1962, South Yemen to 1967, the Gulf States to 1971, Oman to 1970. Part 3 The years of revolution: Egypt since 1952
• Iraq since 1958
• Syria and Lebanon since 1958 - Syria, Lebanon
• Israel, Jordan and the Palestines since 1950 - Israel, Jordan, the Palestinians
• Turkey since 1950
• Iran since 1960
• Arabia since the 1960s - general, Saudi Arabia since 1964, North Yemen since 1962, South Yemen since 1967, the Gulf States since 1971, Oman since 1970. Part 4 The Near East in international relations: European predominance and its decline, 1923-56
• European supremacy, 1923-39
• the Near East in the Second World War
• the post war Near East, 1945-54
• the Suez war
• superpowers and regional powers, 1956-89
• the superpowers
• the Arab-Israeli War of 1967
• the Arab-Israeli confrontation, 1967-79
• the Nothern Tier and the Gulf
• the Iraq-Iran war, 1980-88
• the Southern Near East, 1979-89.
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This text takes up the story of M.E.Yapp's previous volume in the series, "The Making of the Modern Near East, 1792-1923", and surveys the history of the region from the collapse of the Ottoman Empire to the present day. It covers the modern countries of Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, North and South Yemen and the Gulf States. The text argues that the impetus for change in the Near East came primarily from within the region and can only be understood by study of internal forces. In addition examines the extraordinary stability of the state system that emerged after World War 1 and the post-1950 transformation of the region after the end of European domination.
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The medieval period of Persia's history began with its conquest by the Muslim Arabs in the seventh century AD and gave way to the modern period at the end of the eighteenth century when the influence of the West became pervasive. David Morgan's book is an account of this subject.
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The medieval period of Persia's remarkably continuous, history began with its conquest by the Muslim Arabs in the seventh century AD and gave way to the modern period at the end of the eighteenth century when the influence of the West became pervasive. Without an understanding of the confused legacy of these centuries, no-one can hope to understand the complexities and dynamism of modern Iran. Concise, clear and colourful, David Morgan's book is the best and most up-to-date short account of its subject in the English language.
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During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the Near East underwent profound changes. Most obviously these were political: after six hundred years of pre-eminence the Ottoman Empire collapsed, to be replaced by several smaller states in South-East Europe, Western Asia and North Africa. An account of the period.
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This clear, and authoritative text surveys the history of the region from the collapse of the Ottoman Empire to the present day. It contains a general regional introduction, followed by a series of country-by-country analyses, and a section which places the Near East in the international context. Professor Yapp' s new edition covers recent dramatic events including the end of the Cold War, the Kuwait Crisis of 1990/91, and the continuing conflict in Israel, as well as assessing the huge social and economic changes in the region. It will be essential reading for students and scholars concerned with modern middle eastern history and politics of the middle east.
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• Introduction: The lands and their peoples.
• 1. The Near East on the eve of the First Crusade.
• 2. The First Crusade 1095
• -1099.
• 3. The Frankish States and the Muslim Response 1099
• -1128.
• 4. Outremer and its People.
• 5. Zangi and Nur-al-Din 1128
• -1154.
• 6. Nur-al-Din and the rise of Saladin 1154
• -1174.
• 7. The Ascendancy of Saladin 1174
• -1193.
• 8. The Later Ayyubids 1193
• -1249.
• 9. Institutions from the Seljukids to the Ayyubids.
• 10. The Inauguration of the Mamluk Sultanate 1249
• -1260.
• 11. The Reign of al-Zahir Baybars 1260-1277
• 12. The Establishment of the Kalavunid Dynasty 1277-1293
• 13. The Reign of Nasir Muhammad (1) - the Usurpations 1293
• -1310.
• 14. The Reign of al-Nasir Muhammad (2) - the autocracy 1310
• -1341.
• 15. The Later Kalavunids and the Circassian Succession 1341
• -1399.
• 16. Egypt and Nubia to the late Fourteenth Century.
• 17. Institutions of the Mamluk Sultanate.
• 18. Diplomatic and Commercial Relations of the Mamluk Sultanate.
• 19. The Seljuk Sultanate of Rum and its Successors.
• 20. The Mamluk Sultanate in Decline (1) - the Sons and the Household of Barkuk 1399
• -1461.
• 21. the Mamluk Sultanate in Decline (2) - the Later Circassian Mamluk Sultans 1461
• -1517. Conclusion: Retrospect and Prospect.
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This volume covers the rise and fall of the Crusader states, the expansion of the Mongol empire, the rise of the Mamluk sultanate and of its ultimate conquerors, the Ottomans.
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The kaleidoscopic political changes during the years covered by this volume include the rise and fall of the Crusader states, the expansion of the Mongol empire, the rise of the Mamluk sultanate and of its ultimate conquerors, the Ottomans. To all of these Professor Holt is a clear and skilful guide. He principally utilises, and to some extent reinterprets, the medieval Arabic sources, to present a picture which differs in important respects from the conventional western-orientated view.
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• Chapter 1:The matrix of the Muslim world: the near East in the early seventh century
• Chapter 2: The Birth of the Islamic State
• Chapter 3: Conquest and division in the time of the Rashidun Caliphs
• Chapter 4: The Umayyad Caliphate
• Chapter 5: The early 'Abbasid Caliphate'
• Chapter 6: The Middle 'Abbasid caliphate
• Chapter 7: The structure of politics in the Muslim commonwealth
• Chapter 8: The Buyid confederation
• Chapter 9: The Kurds
• Chapter 10: The Hamdanids
• Chapter 11: Bedouin political movements and dynasties
• Chapter 12: Early Islamic Egypt and the Fatimid empire.
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Dr Kennedy gives a full and clear account of the Near East in the formative period of Islamic society. Beginning with the life of Muhammad and the birth of Islam, he goes on to examine the great Arab conquests and the golden age of Islam from the eighth to the tenth centuries. The book closes with the period of political fragmentation in the tenth and eleventh centuries when the early unity was lost, never to be recovered.
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• Preface K. Ascani, P. Buzi, D. Picchi Zoega and His Time
• Chapter 1: Georg Koes and Zoega's manuscripts preserved in the Royal Library in Copenhagen I. Boserup
• Chapter 2: Relics of a friendship. Objects from Georg Zoega's estate in Thorvaldsens Museum, Copenhagen K. Boggild Johannsen
• Chapter 3: Georg Zoega in lettere K. Ascani
• Chapter 4: Georg Zoega und Christian Gottlob Heyne D. Graepler
• Chapter 5: Zoega e la filologia A. Bausi
• Chapter 6: Zoega as art critic J. Svenningsen
• Chapter 7: An antiquarian depicted. The visual reception of Georg Zoega A. Haslund Hansen
• Chapter 8: Georg Zoega and Friedrich Munter. The significance of their relationship T. Fischer-Hansen Zoega and Numismatic Studies
• Chapter 9: Zoega studente di numismatica. Il soggiorno a Vienna (1782) e i contatti con Joseph Eckhel D. Williams, B. Woytek
• Chapter 10: Zoega, pionnier de la numismatique alexandrine L. Bricault Zoega and the Origins of Egyptology
• Chapter 11: On the origins of an Egyptologist T. Christiansen
• Chapter 12: In visita alla 'Grande Galleria': l'antico Egitto a Firenze M. C. Guidotti
• Chapter 13: The Egyptian antiquities of Bologna and Venice at Zoega's time D. Picchi
• Chapter 14: Georg Zoega and the Borgia collection of Egyptian antiquities: cataloguing as a method R. Pirelli, S. Mainieri
• Chapter 15: A concealed attempt at deciphering hieroglyphs P. J. Frandsen
• Chapter 16: "Covered with the rust of Egyptian antiquity": Thomas Ford Hill and the decipherment of hieroglyphs P. Usick
• Chapter 17: De origine et usu obeliscorum: some notes on an eighteenth-century Egyptological study E. Ciampini Zoega and the Origins of Coptic Studies
• Chapter 18: Gli studi copti fino a Zoega T. Orlandi
• Chapter 19: Chenoute et Zoega : l'auteur majeur de la litterature copte revele par le savant danois A. Boud'hors
• Chapter 20: The Catalogus codicum copticorum manu scriptorum qui in Museo Borgiano Velitris adservantur. Genesis of a masterpiece P. Buzi Zoega and Rome
• Chapter 21: Il collezionismo di orientalia nella Roma di Pio VI B. Palma Venetucci
• Chapter 22: Georg Zoega e gli scavi nel territorio laziale B. Cacciotti
• Chapter 23: Friederike Brun, Elisa von der Recke and Georg Zoega: Members of the 'Universitas of Rome' A. Muller.
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Renowned for his work within the fields of Numismatics, Archaeology, Egyptology and Coptic studies, Georg Zoega was a figure of outstanding importance both in Rome and in Europe, at the end of the eighteenth century. Although highly valued by his contemporaries, Zoega's scientific legacy fell almost entirely into oblivion with the end of the Enlightenment. The Forgotten Scholar: Georg Zoega (1755-1819): At the Dawn of Egyptology and Coptic Studies represents an exceptional occasion to rediscover the largely unknown scientific legacy of this Danish scholar consisting of hundreds of letters, drawings, sketches, notes, and other documents, mainly preserved in the Royal Library and in the Thorvaldsen Museum of Copenhagen.
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• Part I: The present study Technical terms and abbreviations Bibliography and bibliographical abbreviations Bibliography of the tombs Introduction Compilation of (sub)themes Chapter I Architecture, decoration and interpretation Chapter II Preliminary considerations Chapter III The methods employed in the present study Chapter IV The western wall of the cult chapel Chapter V The co-occurrence of (sub)themes on the western wall
• Chapter VI The locations of the (sub)themes on the western wall Chapter VII The relation between the (sub)themes on the western wall Chapter VIII The decoration of the false door Chapter IX The chronological development of the cultic character false door and its parts Chapter X The interactions between the decoration of the western wall and the false door. Further considerations about the magical food supply Chapter XI The results: analysis and correlation Chapter XII The entrance jambs and the entrance thicknesses Chapter XIII The northern wall of the chapel Chapter XIV The southern wall of the chapel Chapter XV The eastern wall of the chapel Chapter XVI The interaction between (sub)themes on the various walls Chapter XVII Conclusions Part II : Annex Catalogues Tables Diagrams Chronological orderings.
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In The Decoration on the Cult Chapel Walls of the Old Kingdom Tombs at Giza Leo Roeten presents a method that evaluates the degree of interaction between the various decoration themes that are placed on the western wall of the cult chapels at the tombs of Giza. Diagrams resulting from that method show that during the 5th dynasty the focus of the mode of food supply for the ka of the deceased changed from primarily active to primarily magical. On the other walls of the chapel this change not only led to the loss of some secondary cultic functions like the inviting and guiding functions, but also to an increasing focus on scenes from the daily life of the tomb owner.
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• Preface Mr. Elephantine, Bezalel Porten Bezalel Porten Curriculum Vitae List of Contributors Tabula Gratulatoria Abbreviations Aramaic Studies / Elephantine Chapter 1: Women of Elephantine and Women in the Land of Israel Annalisa Azzoni Chapter 2: Der Wandel des Aramaischen veranschaulicht durch Transkriptionen alter aramaischer Texte Klaus Beyer Chapter 3: Three Additional Aramaic-Egyptian Parallel Legal Terms/Formulae Alejandro F. Botta Chapter 4: The Career of Some Elephantine and Murasu Scribes and Witnesses Eleonora Cussini Chapter 5: Phoenician and Aramaic Inscriptions from Abusir Jan Dusek and Jana Mynarova Chapter 6: On -I , rakkasu, and raksu Frederick Mario Fales Chapter 7: Rare Demonstrative Pronouns in Targum Onqelos: : and
• Margaretha Folmer Chapter 8: Elephantine and the Torah Lester L. Grabbe Chapter 9: Gleanings from the Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon II: Notes on the State of Modern Syriac Lexicography Stephen Kaufman Chapter 10: Le Dialecte Arameen de L'inscription De Kuttamuwa (Zencirli, Viiie S. Av. N. E.) Andre Lemaire Chapter 11: Clermont-Ganneau 253: une revisite et un reclassement obliges Helene Lozachmeur Chapter 12: Epistolographische Elemente in den neuveroeffentlichten aramaischen Ostrakonbriefen aus Elephantine (Sammlung Clermont-Ganneau) Dirk Schwiderski Chapter 13: Le phenomene de mutation des interdentales en arameen, ou la Quete de "la langue parfaite". De la reforme orthographique a l'epoque perse a la differenciation maxima Ursula Schattner-Rieser Chapter 14: Die "Festung" von Elephantine in der Spatzeit -Anmerkungen zum archaologischen Befund Cornelius von Pilgrim Chapter 15: Twelve Published and Unpublished Jewish Aramaic Ostraca Written in the `Jewish' Cursive Script Ada Yardeni Biblical Studies Chapter 16: Metaphor in the Book of Psalms or the Book of Psalms as Metaphor? Stephen A. Geller Chapter 17: Revisiting the Date of King Josiah's Death Dan'el Kahn Chapter 18: "Wisdom is of the Gods--" An Aramaic Antecedent to Proverbs 8 (Or: The Case of the Vanishing Evidence!) James M. Lindenberger Chapter 19: Does the Enigmatic Phrase
• (Hab 3:9) Represent Liturgical Glosses? David Marcus Chapter 20: Philological Notes on the David-Bathsheba Story I Takamitsu Muraoka Chapter 21: The First Born/Eldest Son of Death/The Underworld, Job 18:13 Shalom M. Paul Chapter 22: A Poem within a Poem: Some Literary Aspects of the Lament for Saul and Jonathan Jan-Wim Wesselius Ancient Near Eastern Studies Chapter 23: The Role of the Governor in Persian Imperial Administration Lisbeth S. Fried Chapter 24: Emar and the Elephantine Papyri Andrew D. Gross Chapter 25: Setting Another Tablet Right: the Ugaritic Text RS 2.[031] Dennis Pardee Chapter 26: Ad Nomen Argumenta: Personal Names as Pejorative Puns in Ancient Texts Christopher A. Rollston Chapter 27: The Archive of Samas-Sarra-Usur from Calah Ran Zadok Chapter 28: Der agyptische Name der Juden Karl-Theodor Zauzich.
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Twenty nine scholars from Israel, Europe and the Americas came together to honor and celebrate Prof. Bezalel Porten's (Emeritus, Dept. of History of the Jewish People, Hebrew University of Jerusalem) academic career. Covering a wide variety of topics within Aramaic, Biblical, and ancient Near Eastern Studies, In the Shadow of Bezalel offers new insights and proposals in the areas of Aramaic language, paleography, onomastica and lexicography; ancient Near Eastern legal traditions, Hebrew Bible, and social history of the Persian period.
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• "Where Will Yehoyisma' Go?": A Reconsideration of TAD B3.8 Annalisa Azzoni Yet Another Jewish Tombstone from Late Antique Zoar/Zoora: The Funerary Marker of Hannah Daughter of Levi Jacob Bitton and Nathan Dweck and Steven Fine 4Q541, Fragment 24 Reconsidered Edward Cook Space, Line, and the Written Biblical Poem in Texts from the Judaean Desert Chip Dobbs-Allsopp
• An Inscribed Bulla with Grazing Doe from Tel `Eton Avraham Faust and Esther Eshel Torah and Testament: Teaching and Learning Scripture in Dialogue and in Hermeneutics Zev Garber Methodological Principles in Determining that the So-Called Jehoash Tablet is Inauthentic Edward Greenstein Gleanings from the Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon I: Previously Unknown Syriac Words Stephen Kaufman
• Job 19 in the Light of the Ketef Hinnom Inscriptions and Amulets Theodore Lewis New Drawings and Photographs of Four Cypriot Inscriptions Marilyn J. Lundberg
• An Inscribed Arrowhead of a Crown Prince of Babylon P. Kyle McCarter, Jr. Jonah 2:7-The Descent to the Netherworld Shalom Paul Nodding Scribe and Heavy Thumb: New Readings in CAT 1.14 Wayne Pitard
• New Lighting on the Amarna Letters Anson Rainey An Old Hebrew Stone Inscription from the City of David: A Trained Hand and a Remedial Hand on the Same Inscription Christopher Rollston
• Why was `Old Poetry' Used in Hebrew Narrative? Historical and Cultural Considerations about Judges 5 Mark Smith Squeezing Blood from a Stone: The Archaeological Context of the Incirli Inscription Lynn Swartz Dodd Mesha's ryt in the Context of Moabite and Israelite Bloodletting Ziony Zevit.
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Bruce Zuckerman has transformed the way we look at ancient Semitic inscriptions. Through his efforts, the most important inscriptions of biblical times have been reread and the history of the biblical and Second Temple periods reimagined. He has made contributions to the fields of biblical studies and modern Judaism, and, in founding Maarav: A Journal for the Study of the Northwest Semitic Languages and Literatures, has made the research of many scholars available to the scholarly community. The series of articles included here honor his many contributions through discussions of a wide variety of inscriptional materials, Biblical texts, archaeology, lexicography and teaching methodology. Included in the volume is a republication of his path breaking exhibition catalogue, Puzzling Out the Past.
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• Introduction: The Nubian Scene Chapter One: Ergamenes, Aktisanes, and the Modern Discovery of Hellenizing Art in Meroe Chapter Two: Reception Without Understanding? Chapter Three: An Elusive Model: Images of Egypt's Multicultural Identity in the Ptolemaic and Roman Periods Chapter Four: Early Contacts With Ptolemaic Egypt and the Early Imports Chapter Five: Hellenizing Architecture and Sculpture in Meroe City Chapter Six: The Great Enclosure at Musawwarat es Sufra Chapter Seven: From Mass-Product to Luxury and Back. Decorated Fine Pottery and Meroitic Vase Painting Chapter Eight: The Hellenistic Egyptian Style Kiosk at Naqa or "Acculturation" Sidetracked Chapter Nine: Media and Messages. The Autonomy of Nubian "Acculturation".
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Presenting a large body of evidence for the first time, this book offers a comprehensive treatment of Nubian architecture, sculpture, and minor arts in the period between 300 BC-AD 250. It focuses primarily on the Nubian response to the traditional pharaonic, Hellenistic/Roman, Hellenizing, and "hybrid" elements of Ptolemaic and Roman Egyptian culture. The author begins with a history of Nubian art and a critical survey of the literature on Ptolemaic and Roman Egyptian art. Special chapters are then devoted to the discussion of the Egyptian-Greek interaction in the arts of Ptolemaic Egypt, the place of Egyptian Hellenistic and Hellenizing art within the oikumene, the pluralistic visual world of Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt, as well as on the specific genre of terracotta sculpture. Utilizing examples from Meroe City and Musawwarat es Sufra, the author argues that cultural transfer from Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt to Nubia resulted in an inward-focused adaptation. Therefore, the resulting Nubian art from this period expresses only those aspects of Egyptian and Greek art that are compatible with indigenous Nubian goals.
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• 1. Introduction
• 2. Settlement during early Islam: history and historiography
• 3. The research area
• 4. The Big Data
• 5. Technologies and daily life
• 6. Settlement patterns through archaeological evidence
• 7. Settlement patterns through texts
• 8. Conclusions. Index.
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Combines both archaeological and textual data.
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• Foreword Preface Abbreviations List of Illustrations with Image Credits List of Tables Chapter Abstracts
• The Sources for Layard's Excavations at Nineveh
• 1 Layard's First Expedition to Assyria, October 1845-June 1847
• 2 Layard's Second Expedition, First Phase, September 1849-March 1850
• 3 Layard's Second Expedition, Second Phase, May-July 1850
• 4 Layard's Second Expedition, Third Phase, August-October 1850
• 5 Layard's Second Expedition, Fourth Phase, October 1850-April 1851
• 6 The Southwest Terrace Wing, Chambers QQ-UU and ZZ, Rooms LI-LIX
• 7 Kuyunjik, May 1851-March 1855
• Epilogue
• Colour Plates Plans Bibliography Index.
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Geoffrey Turner has written the definitive study of the mid-19th century excavations sponsored by the British Museum at the ancient Assyrian site of Nineveh in Iraq. Based on exhaustive analysis of unpublished archives combined with his own extensive knowledge of Assyrian architecture, Turner's work documents the complete history of these excavations. Turner also draws on the archives and numerous additional sources to provide a detailed reconstruction of the architecture and relief sculpture in the building that was the primary focus of these excavations, the Southwest Palace of Sennacherib (ruled 705-681 BC). The result constitutes the final report both on the results of these excavations and on the original appearance of one of the ancient world's most famous buildings.
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• 1.Geography and Religion in the Eastern Mediterranean
• 2. Levantine Geography, History, and Agrarian Religion
• 3. Ancient Near Eastern Religion and the Storm-God Baal-Hadad
• 4. The Hebrew Bible and Elijah
• 5. Early Christianity and Saint George
• 6. The Emergence of Islam and Al-Khidr
• 7. Eastern Mediterranean Shared Religious History
• Bibliography.
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Geography, Religion, Gods, and Saints in the Eastern Mediterranean explores the influence of geography on religion and highlights a largely unknown story of religious history in the Eastern Mediterranean. In the Levant, agricultural communities of Jews, Christians, and Muslims jointly venerated and largely shared three important saints or holy figures: Jewish Elijah, Christian St. George, and Muslim al-Khidr. These figures share 'peculiar' characteristics, such as associations with rain, greenness, fertility, and storms. Only in the Eastern Mediterranean are Elijah, St. George, and al-Khidr shared between religious communities, or characterized by these same agricultural attributes - attributes that also were shared by regional religious figures from earlier time periods, such as the ancient Near Eastern Storm-god Baal-Hadad, and Levantine Zeus. This book tells the story of how that came to be, and suggests that the figures share specific characteristics, over a very long period of time, because these motifs were shaped by the geography of the region. Ultimately, this book suggests that regional geography has influenced regional religion; that Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are not, historically or textually speaking, separate religious traditions (even if Jews, Christians, and Muslims are members of distinct religious communities); and that shared religious practices between members of these and other local religious communities are not unusual. Instead, shared practices arose out of a common geographical environment and an interconnected religious heritage, and are a natural historical feature of religion in the Eastern Mediterranean. This volume will be of interest to students of ancient Near Eastern religions, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, sainthood, agricultural communities in the ancient Near East, Middle Eastern religious and cultural history, and the relationships between geography and religion.
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• Acknowledgements
• List of abbreviations
• Chapter 1: Purpose and Scope
• The Story of Comparative Endeavors
• Understanding the Roots of Contemporary Questions
• Some Common Challenges
• Tools for a Comparative and Developmental History of YHWH
• Finding a Narrative Arc
• Cultural Translation
• Subversive Reception
• Summary
• Chapter 2: Competing Narratives of Early Origins
• Geographical Options and Limitations
• Possible Southern Origins: Egypt and the Biblical Narrative
• An Egyptian/Southern Test Case: Seth and YHWH
• Early YHWHism From a Southern Perspective
• The North: Ugarit, Baal, El, and the Early Stages of YHWHism
• Early YHWHism
• YHWH in Early Poetry
• YHWH in Inscriptions
• The Divine Council
• Summary
• Chapter 3: The Rise of YHWH and Jerusalem on the International Stage
• Urbanization and YHWH
• Urbanism and Divinity in the Ancient Near East
• Israelite Urbanism and Divinity in Shiloh and Jerusalem
• A Context for Change: Israel and its Neighbors
• Urbanization, Divinity, and the Role of Scribal Culture
• YHWH on the International Stage
• The Neo-Assyrian Context as Catalyst
• Isaiah 6 as Israelite Protest Literature
• Isaiah 6:1-8 in the Neo-Assyrian Period
• Subversive Reception: The mi s pi and its Connections with Isaiah 6:1-8
• The Call of the Neo-Assyrian Kings Versus the Call of Isaiah
• Subversive Reception in the Book of Nahum
• Nahum 1
• Nahum 2
• Nahum 3
• Summary
• Chapter 4: YHWH as Israel's Only God: YHWH in The Exilic Period
• The Exilic Context
• The Exile and Judean Reactions such as Psalm 137
• The Growth of Exilic YHWHism and Onomastics
• Psalms of Lament, Psalm 44, and the Silence of an Urban YHWH
• What happened to the Other Gods? The Deuteronomistic History
• Jeremiah
• Genesis 1 and Creation Imagery
• Habakkuk
• Summary
• Chapter 5: Persian Period: The Afterlives of YHWHism
• The Context of the Persian Period
• Elephantine and the Judean Communities YHWHism
• YHWH in Third-Isaiah
• Isaiah 57:14-15
• Third-Isaiah
• Tackling Monotheism
• The Book of Jonah
• Horizontal Movement and Tension
• Descending to Sheol and Escaping Heaven: The Vertical Axis
• Self-Constructed Distance from YHWH: Vertically and Horizontally
• Jonah's Complex/Post-Exilic Perception of YHWH
• The Shape of YHWH in the Persian Period
• Summary
• Chapter 6: Conclusion and Assessment
• Challenges and Limitations
• Discoveries and Fruits
• Bibliography
• Index.
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A Story of YHWH investigates the ancient Israelite expression of their deity, and tracks why variation occurred in that expression, from the early Iron Age to the Persian period. Through this text, readers will gain a better appreciation for the complexities and contexts in the development of YHWH, from its earliest origins to the Persian period. Two interpretive frameworks-cultural translation and subversive reception-are offered for filtering through the textual data and contexts. Comparative study with ancient Near Eastern deities and select biblical texts lead readers through early YHWHism, YHWH's original outsider status, and the eventual impact of urbanization on the expression. Perceived and real pressures then challenge urbanite YHWHism and invite new directions for forming a unique expression of divinity in the ancient world. This book is intended for those interested in the study of ancient divinity broadly as well as those who study ancient Israel and the Hebrew Bible. The work provides generalists with a better appreciation for the particular challenges in working in the ancient Near East and with the bible specifically, while it provides specialists with a broad theory that can be continually tested. For both, the study provides two reading lenses to work through similar questions and an accounting of why the many contextually driven and varied constructions of YHWH may have occurred.
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