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Temple Of Shanhur Volume Ii - The Exterior Of The Augustan Temple, The Hypostyle Hall, And The Lateral Chapel (Nos. 99-240)

by M. De Meyer

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 The present book is the second volume devoted to the publication of the temple of Shanhur. The first concerned the decorated inner parts of the temple, altogether ninety-eight ritual scenes or texts. With the second volume, the exterior walls, including the contra-temple at the northern exterior wall, and the remains of the lateral chapel and hypostyle hall are published, in total 141 ritual scenes or texts. The decoration programme of the exterior walls illuminates a clear theological development under the reign of Claudius as compared to the earliest stage of the Shanhur temple under Augustus. The manifestations of the Great Goddess (Isis) appear in the form of mother goddesses, with their familial relationships being expressed in terms of the theological systems of Thebes and Coptos. However, the temple does not simply convey the Theban and Coptite religious understanding, but essentially is a form of Coptite theology, in which Theban conceptions are cast in the mould developed by Coptite priests.
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Egypt At Its Origins 7 - Proceedings Of The Seventh International Conference ''Origin Of The State. Predynastic And Early Dynastic Egypt'', Paris 19th - 23rd September 2022

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 This volume comprises the proceedings of the 7th conference in the "Origin of the State. Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt" series, held in Paris from 19th to 23rd September 2022, at the Institut National d''Histoire de l''Art (INHA). The 42 peer-reviewed articles present the latest research and discoveries in the field of early Egypt. They showcase the dynamism of the global community of researchers dedicated to understanding the origins of ancient Egyptian culture. The articles are organised into 11 topics: funerary archaeology; iconography; Lower Egypt; Upper Egypt; rock art; Egypt in context; lithic studies; pottery studies; material, technology, and craft specialization; archives and museum studies; and textual evidence. They include findings from the most recent archaeological fieldwork conducted at major Predynastic sites: in the Nile Delta at Tell el-Fara''in/Buto, Tell el-Farkha, Tell el-Iswid, and Tell el-Murra; in the Memphite region, at Helwan; in Upper Egypt, at Abydos, Naqada, Gebelein, Hierakonpolis, and Elkab; and in the Eastern Desert, at Wadi Sannur.
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Rhetoric And Historiography In Late Antiquity - Exploring, Transgressing And Policing Generic Boundaries

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 This volume studies the interactions between rhetoric and historiography in Late Antiquity. Starting out from the fact that historians used rhetorical ways of writing whereas orators relied on historical material, it examines how late antique orators and historians explored, transgressed and policed generic boundaries. By combining a socio-literary and a metaliterary approach, the volume charts how practitioners of each genre situated themselves vis-a-vis the other and how such metadiscourses on the relationship between rhetoric and historiography were deployed in view of claims of authority, truthfulness, and superiority. Including papers on Greek, Latin and Syriac, the volume seeks to demonstrate how in all these three languages orators and historiographers show a high degree of self-awareness and position themselves consciously within a crowded literary field.
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Eclats Du Crepuscule - Recueil D''Etudes Sur L''Egypte Tardive Offert A Olivier Perdu

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 Cet ouvrage rassemble quatorze contributions egyptologiques portant sur le premier millenaire avant notre ere offertes a Olivier Perdu. Attache a la Chaire d''egyptologie du College de France, Olivier Perdu a marque, par ses nombreuses publications, les etudes portant sur le dernier millenaire de l''Egypte pharaonique. Il a publie des etudes fondamentales sur l''histoire evenementielle, sur les statues privees et leurs textes, sur les cultes et sacerdoces locaux mais aussi sur l''histoire de l''art, l''onomastique et la grammaire. Ses collegues et amis ont souhaite faire honneur a Olivier Perdu, a sa generosite et a ses multiples centres d''interet dans la discipline egyptologique en lui proposant des articles abordant ses themes de predilection, a savoir les monuments et l''histoire de la Troisieme Periode intermediaire, les textes et les monuments de l''epoque tardive ainsi que la grammaire et l''onomastique du premier millenaire avant notre ere.
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L'Histoire Du Royaume De Byblos A L'Age Du Fer, 1080-333

by M Abou-Abdallah

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 English Description: This book presents a multidisciplinary study on the history of Byblos based on the exploration and comparison of different kinds of sources. The author divides the history of Byblos into four main periods. Between the end of the second millennium and the middle of the 9th century, Byblos, which continues to maintain its privileged ties with Egypt, enjoyed a certain independence which allowed it to develop and maintain relations with the inhabitants of Huelva in Spain. However, between 853 and 610, Byblos, and because of the Assyrian conquests, not only lost its independence, but it was forced to give allegiance to the Assyrian rulers by paying tribes. This situation has not changed during the Babylonian epoch, which lasted less than a century. During the Persian era (539-333), Byblos, which was part of the province of Transeuphratene, rebuilt its fleet, and issued its own currencies. Due to lack of documents, Byblos could not reveal all its secrets yet. French Description: Cet ouvrage presente une etude multidisciplinaire sur l''histoire de Byblos basee sur l''exploration et la confrontation de differentes sortes de sources. L''auteur divise l''histoire de Byblos en quatre periodes principales. Entre la fin du deuxieme millenaire et le milieu du 9e siecle, Byblos qui continue a conserver ses liens privilegies avec l''Egypte jouissait d''une certaine independance qui lui a permis de se developper et d''entretenir des relations avec les habitants de Huelva en Espagne. Cependant, entre 853 et 610, Byblos, et a cause des conquetes assyriennes, n''a pas uniquement perdu son independance, mais elle etait contrainte de preter allegeance aux souverains assyriens en versant des tribus. Cette situation n''a pas change durant l''epoque babylonienne qui a dure moins qu''un siecle. Durant l''epoque perse (539-333), Byblos qui faisait partie de la province de Transeuphratene, a reconstruit sa flotte, et a emis ses propres monnaies. Faute de document, Byblos n''a pas pu reveler encore tous ses secrets.
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Egypte Anterieure - Melanges De Prehistoire Et D''Archeologie Offerts A Beatrix Midant-Reynes Par Ses Etudiants, Collegues Et Amis

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 French description: Cet ouvrage se veut un hommage a Beatrix Midant-Reynes, dont la longue carriere de lithicienne, d''archeologue et d''egyptologue est intimement liee a l''Egypte des origines, meme si ses travaux couvrent un large eventail de disciplines. Beatrix Midant-Reynes est une figure majeure des etudes concernant la prehistoire egyptienne et la periode predynastique. Son oeuvre a une influence considerable tant pour les nouvelles theories qu''elle a posees concernant la constitution des premieres societes nilotiques et l''emergence de l''Etat en Egypte, que des techniques de fouille ou d''analyse du materiel archeologique. Ce volume de melanges propose 35 contributions, redigees en francais et en anglais, dues a des universitaires, des chercheurs et des conservateurs de musee. Les themes abordes, tous chers a leur dedicataire, illustrent la curiosite intellectuelle et les centres d''interet de Beatrix Midant-Reynes: la chronologie, le neolithique des deserts, le materiel lithique, les relations entre l''Egypte et le Proche-Orient, le sacrifice humain, l''habitat, le site d''Adaima, le Delta du Nil, la culture materielle, l''anthropologie de terrain, les premieres dynasties egyptiennes, etc. English summary: This book is a tribute to Beatrix Midant-Reynes, whose long career as a lithic specialist, archaeologist, and Egyptologist is intimately linked to early Egypt, even though her work covers a wide range of disciplines. Beatrix Midant-Reynes is a major scholarly figure in the study of Egyptian prehistory and the Predynastic period. Her work has had a considerable influence in the new theories she has proposed concerning the constitution of the first Nilotic societies and the emergence of the State in Egypt, but also for the techniques of excavation and analysis of archaeological material she has introduced. This volume of essays offers 35 contributions, written in French and in English, by scholars, researchers, and museum curators. The variety of topics illustrates the intellectual curiosity and interests of Beatrix Midant-Reynes: chronology, the Neolithic of the deserts, lithic material, relations between Egypt and the Near East, human sacrifice, settlement archaeology, the site of Adaima, the Nile Delta, material culture, archaeothanatology, the first Egyptian dynasties, etc.
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Etudes D'Histoire Biblique

by E Lipinski

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 Les etudes presentees dans ce volume sont basees sur les cours et conferences d''histoire et d''archeologie bibliques donnes par l''auteur de 1986 a 2020. La bibliographie de ces annees figure au debut du volume, faisant suite a celle des annees 1958-1995, parue dans la meme serie, OLA 65. Le premier chapitre presente les rapports de l''Egypte antique avec Canaan, Israel et Juda durant deux millenaires, divises selon les periodes de l''histoire egyptienne qui font decouvrir des ancetres des tribus israelites en Cisjordanie, Transjordanie et au Nord de la Peninsule Sinaitique, bien avant les donnees bibliques. Par exemple, la Maison de Joseph, connue plus tard comme Ephraim, apparait des les XIXe et XVIIIe siecles av.n.e., tout comme la tribu de Simeon, dans les Textes d''Execration du Moyen Empire, diriges contre des princes et des tribus dont on pouvait craindre l''inimitie. Jerusalem est alors mentionnee quatre fois. Chapitre II compare divers aspects du droit biblique au droit de l''antique Mesopotamie. Le droit familial vient notamment en ligne de compte avec l''avortement, la sodomie, l''inceste, l''adultere. Des exemples de lois cultuelles sont presentes ensuite et un paragraphe de l''ouvrage de Maimonide, Le guide des Egares, est analyse. Chapitre III traite ensuite du mariage, divorce et levirat en se basant sur la legislation biblique et sur les documents de l''epoque greco-romaine trouves a Qumran et dans le Desert de Juda. Chapitre IV examine les actes de mariage judeo-arameens d''Elephantine, provenant de la colonie militaire du Ve siecle av.n.e., ou nombre de documents bien conserves ont ete retrouves. Le developpement de l''ideologie royale est presente au Chapitre V depuis les cas exceptionnels de la divinite du roi au Ps. 45,7 et Ez. 28 jusqu''au choix divin de la dynastie de David et le messianisme. Le chapitre suivant traite de la situation sociale de l''esclave qui peut etre tres differente selon son sexe, sa nationalite ou la periode ou il vivait. Le prophetisme sous ses differents aspects est examine au Chapitre VII. Il ne s''agit pas d''une revue des ecrits prophetiques de la Bible, mais du prophete vu par l''historien. Chapitre VIII traite en particulier de l''histoire quelque peu compliquee des tribus de Transjordanie, tandis que Chapitre IX dresse une breve histoire des Edomites, vivant au sud de Juda. L''histoire generale d''Israel et de Juda n''est pas traitee directement dans ce volume, car elle a fait l''objet des deux ouvrages recents de la meme serie, OLA 275 et OLA 287.
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Inscriptions Nabateennes Datees De La Fin Du Iie Siecle Avant Notre Ere Au Milieu Du Ive Siecle

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Inscriptions Nabateennes Datees De La Fin Du Iie Siecle Avant Notre Ere Au Milieu Du Ive Siecle

by M.-J. Roche

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 English summary: The book explores Nabataean history and society in its evolution through almost one hundred and fifty inscriptions and dated papyri. The five-part layout presents documents from the Nabataean kingdom, then the large funeral inscriptions of Hegra (Mada''in Saleh), then those found outside the boundaries of the kingdom, and finally those dating from Roman times; a final chapter reviews the palaeographical aspects. Important appendices present the lists in order of catalogue and according to their dating, regional distribution, typology, dating elements used, numbers and figures, epigraphic concordances, places of preservation, chronology, indexes, and bibliography. Through redundant legal formulas and highly developed royal epithets, often neglected by research, the role of the archives of the Royal Palace of Petra or temples such as that of Hegra in the 1st century AD can be discerned. French description: L''ouvrage explore l''histoire et la societe nabateenne dans son evolution a travers presque cent cinquante inscriptions et papyri dates. Le plan en cinq parties presente les documents provenant du royaume nabateen, puis les grandes inscriptions funeraires de Hegra, ensuite celles trouvees en dehors des limites du royaume, enfin celles datant de l''epoque romaine; un dernier chapitre fait le point sur les aspects paleographiques. D''importantes annexes presentent les listes selon l''ordre du catalogue et selon leurs datation, leur repartition regionale, leur typologie, les elements de datation utilises, les nombres et les chiffres, les concordances epigraphiques, les lieux de conservation, une chronologie, des index et une bibliographie. A travers les formules juridiques redondantes et les epithetes royales tres developpees, souvent negligees par la recherche, on discerne le role des archives du palais royal de Petra ou des temples comme celui de la Mesure a Hegra au Ier siecle de notre ere.
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Le Microcosme Animal En Egypte Ancienne - De L''Effroi A La Veneration: Etude D''Archeo- Et Ethnoarthropodologie Culturelle

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 Cette publication fait suite au colloque international organise par l''Universite de Fribourg, Suisse (10-11 septembre 2015). Abordant la relation specifique entre les Egyptiens et le monde des Arthropodes, objet de peur et de veneration, les etudes reunies ciblent des especes liees a des divinites (Isis de Coptos, Isis-Selkis, etc.) capables de dejouer leurs nuisances venimeuses ou de guerir de leurs effets (scorpions, mille-pattes), des especes vehiculant des maladies parasitaires comme le paludisme ou la leishmaniose (moustiques et phlebotomes), des especes aux caracteristiques anatomiques et ethologiques remarquables employees d''un point de vue conceptuel (scorpion, scarabee et Lanelater de Neith). Une partie de cette approche est consacree aux necrophages, ainsi qu''a l''utilisation medico-magique des Arthropodes dans le corpus medical de l''Egypte classique et la pharmacopee de l''Egypte greco-romaine. Contributions de S.H. Aufrere, L. Baque Manzano, T. Bardinet, J. Berlandini, A.-S. von Bomhard, A. Charron, N. Guilhou, P.P. Koemoth, J. MaOEtre, M.-H. Marganne, F. Rouffet, et C. Spieser.
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Le Quartier Des Pretres Dans Le Temple D'Amon A Karnak

by A. Masson-Berghoff

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 French description: Le quartier des pretres est un quartier residentiel situe dans le sanctuaire d''Amon a Karnak, a l''est du lac Sacre. Au cours du premier millenaire avant notre ere, il a ete presque continuellement occupe par des pretres le temps de leur service cultuel. Un programme de recherche lance en 2001 par le Centre franco-egyptien d''etude des temples de Karnak (Cfeetk) complete et revise les resultats de fouilles de sauvetage menees dans ce secteur dans les annees 1970, jusqu''alors partiellement publies. L''histoire et l''evolution de ce quartier, ainsi que l''identite, la culture materielle, la vie quotidienne et le regime alimentaire de ses habitants, ont ete etablis au moyen d''une collaboration pluridisciplinaire pendant de nouvelles fouilles et des missions d''etudes du materiel. Cette recherche explore la maniere dont cet habitat s''integre dans le contexte plus large du temple, en particulier son environnement religieux et architectural direct sur la rive sud du lac Sacre qui jadis abritait de grands secteurs economiques et peut-etre artisanaux. L''etude de ces annexes offre un temoignage unique et eloquent des activites quotidiennes au sein du temple d''Amon a Karnak et de la vie des serviteurs des dieux egyptiens. English summary: The Priests'' Quarter is a housing quarter located within the sanctuary of Amun in Karnak, to the east of the Sacred Lake. For almost all of the first millennium BC, it was occupied by priests performing their cultic service. A research programme initiated in 2001 by the Centre franco-egyptien d''etude des Temples de Karnak (Cfeetk) completes and revises the results of rescue excavations led in this area in the 1970s, which had so far never been fully published. The history and evolution of this quarter, as well as the identity, material culture, daily life and diet of its inhabitants, have been established through a multidisciplinary collaboration during excavation and post-excavation studies. This research explores how this settlement fits into the larger context of the temple, particularly its direct religious and architectural environment on the southern bank on the Sacred Lake where once stood large economic and possibly artisanal sectors. The study of these temple annexes offers a unique and eloquent testimony on the day-to-day activities within the temple of Amun in Karnak itself and the life of ancient Egyptian priests in general.
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Dendara. Hymnes A Hathor Et A Isis

by S. Cauville

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 Les temples tentyrites d''Hathor et d''Isis conservent dans la pierre des hymnes millenaires, parfois stylistiquement remanies a l''epoque greco-romaine. Graves de maniere originale sur l''encadrement des portes, ils permettent en outre d''apprehender les dieux selon une ligne de pensee homogene. Depuis le coeur du temple jusqu''aux portes du pronaos, ils accompagnent les pas des pretres durant les processions feriales. Le son des sistres rythmant les prieres, les fragrances des parfums se melant aux odeurs florales, les breuvages et mets choisis exhalant leurs saveurs dans un ballet d''etoffes colorees et de parures chatoyantes, tout contribue a susciter l''extraordinaire fascination exercee par la divinite. Ciel, horizon, soleil, lumiere, or, parfum, sistre, ces mots incessamment marteles s''animaient et celebraient la beaute incomparable d''Hathor, la fille de Re; le temple est ainsi une bibliotheque parietale et sonore utilisant des archives nationales millenaires.
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Dendara. Les Structures Decoratives Du Temple D'Hathor

by S. Cauville

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 L''economie du temple d''Hathor repond a des normes strictes auxquelles se conforme la composition architecturale des chapelles. Chacun des elements est autonome; concus en fonction du lieu, il convient toutefois de les apprehender globablement. Le present volume catalogue, en les traduisant, les structures decoratives du temple d''Hathor; separes du contexte liturgique, des resultats partiels seraient fausses. Reposant sur l''observance de regles et de codes precis, le temple doit se presenter a jamais comme un microcosme parfait, depuis le sol de limon verdoyant jusqu''a la voute celeste. L''Egypte forme le socle horizontal avec son eau, ses terres et meme ses dieux. La philosophie se developpe verticalement, des cryptes souterraines aux plafonds astronomiques; elle se hausse, pour ainsi dire, jusqu''a Re le createur.
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Egyptiens Et Nubiens A Kerma - La Ceramique De Doukki Gel (Soudan) Au Nouvel Empire

by P Ruffieux

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 The Egyptian temples at Dokki Gel, Kerma (Sudan), were built during the reign of Thutmose I, in the heart of a Classic Kerma religious and ceremonial compound. The excavations of the site have yielded a huge number of potsherds whose study constitute the focus of this book. The typological approach, combined with stratigraphic analysis and epigraphy, has allowed the dating of many archaeological contexts. Moreover, six development phases within the New Kingdom ceramic corpus were identified, starting at the end of the Classic Kerma. The technological analysis, relying mainly on the so-called Vienna System, led to the definition of local variants of egyptian pottery fabrics, whereas the Kerma material had to be classified separately. A large majority of pottery from both traditions was most likely produced locally and shows signs of mutual influences between Nubians and Egyptians. Analysis of the quantitative data of ceramic assemblages gathered from various sectors brings us to an identification of probable space functions, and movement of commodities within the framework of temple cult ativities and according to three successive architectural organizations. They also suggest a long period of survival of the declining Kerma pottery tradition, during the New Kingdom.
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Devenir Moine A Byzance - Coutumes Sociales, Regles Monastiques Et Rituels Liturgiques

by D. Oltean

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 Le livre est une approche multidisciplinaire des coutumes religieuses et sociales byzantines en lien avec l''entree au monastere et la profession monastique. L''etude se propose d''expliquer certains aspects peu compris de l''histoire du rituel liturgique ou de l''histoire des pratiques sociales, comme la terminologie utilisee pour decrire les etapes de la vie monastique, l''origine du petit habit monastique et l''introduction de la tonsure parmi les pratiques utilisees a l''entree au monastere. La recherche est fondee sur la distinction entre deux traditions monastiques assez differentes, provenant de Jerusalem et Constantinople. Leur coexistence sans conflit nous permet de voir l''histoire des pratiques etudiees comme un "conte de deux cites", terme deja utilise par R. Taft dans un contexte strictement liturgique, mais pas encore applique a la vie monastique.
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Des Cahiers A L'Histoire De La Culture A Byzance - Hommage A Paul Canard, Codicologue (1927-2017)

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 Cet hommage a la memoire de Mgr Paul Canart ( 14 septembre 2017), organise par Michel Cacouros et Jacques-Hubert Sautel, regroupe douze contributions de ses collegues et amis; il explore les domaines dans lesquels Paul Canart s''est illustre, en prenant comme point de repere les manuscrits grecs, en particulier la confection du codex et son organisation en cahiers, la transmission des textes copies et leur impact sur l''histoire de la culture a Byzance. Ainsi, certaines contributions se cantonnent au domaine de la codicologie (P. Andrist et M. Maniaci; J.-H. Sautel), d''autres portent sur la transmission de l''heritage antique a Byzance, dans le domaine proprement litteraire (M.-L. Agati), philosophique (M. Cacouros) ou scientifique (A. Tihon; R. Burri), ou encore sur celle de l''heritage biblique (K. Demoen, R. Ricceri et M. Tomadaki) et patristique (R. Ceulemans; P. Van Deun). Enfin, quelques-unes s''interessent a l''histoire ancienne ou plus recente de Byzance (S. Voicu; J. Schamp) ou a la transmission de la culture antique ou chretienne en Armenie (P. Cornil).
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Dendara. Catalogue Des Dieux Et Des Offrandes

by S. Cauville

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 Les differents monuments de Dendara accueillent environ deux cents divinites, soixante genies de la fecondite et quelque trois cents entites protectrices. Tous sont recenses dans le present catalogue selon l''ordre alphabetique, individuellement ou reunis sous une seule rubrique pour les dieux mineurs, les genies de la fecondite ou les cohortes protectrices. Une transcription du texte hieroglyphique est jointe a chacune des occurrences: un catalogue des offrandes et des statues representees dans les cryptes clot l''ensemble.
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Material Culture Of Mesopotamia And Beyond 1 - People And Their Environment In First Millennium Bce Babylonia

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 This volume is dedicated to the material culture of Babylonia and its neighbouring regions as documented in cuneiform texts. It presents the results of research conducted in the framework of the Franco-Austrian collaborative project ANR-FWF Material Culture of Babylonia during the 1st millennium BC (MCB). The case studies presented here cover different aspects of the material environments in palatial, temple, and private contexts and consider material culture in a broad sense, concentrating not only on the physical nature of manufactured objects but also on the status of their makers, on their working conditions and technologies, and the contexts of production and consumption. They thus propose an approach to socio-economic history which focuses on the concrete and visible aspects of ancient society.
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Nonnus Of Panopolis In Context Iv - Poetry At The Crossroads

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 Today, Nonnus of Panopolis is widely recognized as one of the most interesting and important Greek authors of Late Antiquity. His Dionysiaca is the last grand epic poem of Antiquity and challenges all established epic conventions; his hexametric paraphrase of the Gospel of John, in the same ''baroque'' style, combines Christian content and classical epic language and style. Both are key texts to understand Late Antique poetic innovation. This volume brings together contributions by promising early career researchers and established specialists of Nonnus'' poetry and adjacent fields of scholarship. It is the result of the fourth international Nonnus in Context conference, held in Ghent in the Spring of 2018. Taking the metaphor of the crossroads as a starting point, it explores Nonnus'' poetry and its context(s) along the synchronic and diachronic axes of tradition and society.
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'Exploring Finitude' - Weakness And Integrity In Isaac Of Nineveh

by V Duca

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 This book is the first exploration of an essential theme in the thought of the 7th c. East-Syriac solitary and mystic Isaac of Nineveh, that of creatural "weakness" (mihiluta), a term which, in Isaac, alludes to the ontological condition of exposure to limitation and suffering that characterizes all humans. Based on the analysis of Isaac''s edited and unedited writings in the original Syriac, the book sheds light on his understanding of creatural vulnerability and the phenomenology of the relationship with vulnerability that he outlines, with references to the authors who influenced him (Evagrius, the Syriac Pseudo-Macarian corpus, and others). The reader is thus introduced to Isaac''s view of human finitude which, if experienced and "inhabited", can be taken on by the subject and disclose an experience of integrity. The solitary life, in this perspective, involves entering the mystery of suffering that marks every creatural life.
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Conflict And Coexistence - Proceedings Of The 29th Congress Of The Union Europeenne Des Arabisants Et Islamisants, Munster 2018

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 This volume comprises nineteen papers presented at the 29th Congress of the Union Europeenne des Arabisants et Islamisants at the University of Munster, Germany in September 2018. The articles focus on a variety of phenomena from premodern and modern Islamicate cultures and societies. They are organized in sections on Sciences, Literature and Linguistics, Islamic Law, Theology and Philosophy, History and Society and Material Culture. The variety of approaches to the sources and methods employed represents the width of European research in this field. Thus, the volume provides an easy access to the newest European scholarship on the Islamicate Near and Middle East.
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Birth Of History - From The Third Millennium To Herodotos

by R. T. Ridley

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 One of the not frequently mentioned characteristics of us as humans is both an interest in the past and a desire to leave records of our own time, place or selves. This is not necessarily, however, the same thing as ''history'', which has a very clear meaning, namely ''enquiry''. The very essence of history is the asking of questions and the search for answers to them. These questions concern especially causation (why?), or responsibility (who?). This book is a bold attempt to survey narratives from the beginning of written records in Egypt and Mesopotamia through the major pre-classical cultures down to Herodotos, whom Cicero named ''The Father of History'', to test the accuracy of that epithet, against a current fashion of denigration of the Greek''s achievement. The fascinating pre-classical cultures, usually neglected by classicists, were certainly interested in the past and recording the present, but never asked questions about them. The narrative was already fixed, governed overwhelmingly by divine control and designed usually to glorify the ruler in question. An entirely new world is revealed by Herodotos, who never stopped asking questions. History was born.
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Rediscovery Of Shenoute - Studies In Honor Of Stephen Emmel

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 Stephen Emmel, professor at the University of Munster since 1996, has devoted much of his work to researching the manuscript tradition of the works composed by the Egyptian archimandrite Shenoute (4th/5th c.), the most prolific Coptic author and crucial for the study of the language. Thanks to a masterful reconstruction of the Shenoutean corpus, from a hundred witnesses, all fragmentary and dispersed, he made this research make considerable progress, which opened the way to studies on the content of the works and the history of monasticism during this period. In homage to these pioneering works, and to S. Emmel''s stimulating leadership, this volume brings together twenty-five contributions which illustrate the variety of approaches and issues in the study of Shenoute''s sermons and the manuscripts transmitting them: Bible, liturgy, magic, patristics, history, hagiography, philology, codicology, and even archeology are all fields affected by this collection.
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Community Rule 1qs, 1qsa And 1qsb - A Philological Commentary

by T Muraoka

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 Among the Dead Sea Scrolls The Community Rule (1QS) occupies a very important position. Written in Hebrew and being one of the seven documents found in the late forties of the 20th century it has attracted much attention from a host of scholars. It is not a biblical manuscript, but a document written sometime in the second century B.C.E. in Palestine, and has been read and studied in the Qumran community as we can conclude that as many as ten fragments of the document were subsequently unearthed in another Qumran cave. Because of its contents the document was sometimes called the constitution of the community. The document also throws much light on aspects of the post-biblical Hebrew. Its Hebrew, certainly reflecting Biblical Hebrew, is not merely an imitation of it. In addition, two much shorter documents, though not part of 1QS, but affiliated with it in their contents, have been included: Rule of the Congregation (1QSa) and Rule of Benedictions (1QSb). This monograph presents the entire text, largely based on a recent edition of Prof. Qimron (2020), accompanied by an English translation of our own and a linguistic and text-critical commentary. Studies published in Modern Hebrew have been consulted.
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Egypt At Its Origins 6 - Proceedings Of The Sixth International Conference ''Origin Of The State. Predynastic And Early Dynastic Egypt'', Vienna, 10th - 15th September 2017

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 This volume represents the 6th installment of proceedings of the successful international conference series "Origin of the State. Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt", which this time was held at the University of Vienna in Austria from 10th to 15th of September 2017. With this new peer-reviewed volume of focused research on early Egypt, the 41 contributors dedicated their research to various questions surrounding prehistoric Egypt, the emergence of Pharaonic civilization and the territorial state. While some papers present new archaeological results from on-going excavations, others involve the analysis and interpretation of previously known evidence from the different regions along the Nile Valley. A large group of papers specifically discuss the area of ancient Memphis, which was also a central theme of the conference helping to summarize 20 years of research at the archaeological site of Helwan. Following the good tradition of previous Origins conferences, a very large number of papers are dedicated to the area of Lower Egypt and the Nile Delta from early prehistoric through to the early Old Kingdom periods. These papers highlight the significance and enormous progress of archaeological fieldwork in an area that was long considered an uninhabitable swampland in prehistoric times. Other papers report on new fieldwork at different sites in a largely unexplored region of the Egyptian Nile Valley - the Eastern Desert of Middle Egypt, where active mining on a very large scale has taken place raising questions about the organization and scale of such activities during the formative periods of Egyptian civilization. There are numerous contributions on archaeological evidence from sites in Upper Egypt and their material culture, many of which having been excavated long ago but offering the opportunity to raise new questions. Material culture from within and outside the Nile Valley, bioarchaeological data as well as modern theoretical approaches discussed in several papers, offer great potential for arriving at wider conclusions about specialized craft production, religious practice, interregional exchange, funerary cult, social organization, kingship, administration, state formation as well as music in early Egypt. This volume is yet another exciting collection of latest research on the origins of Pharaonic Egypt and a must-have for any scholar interested in the archaeology of early civilizations.
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