Echoes from the Past
Echoes from the Past

Author: Shmuel Aḥituv

Publisher: North Winds Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789652207081

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Echoes from the Past: Hebrew and Cognate Inscriptions from the Biblical Period by Shmuel Ahituv is a collection of inscriptions dating to the First Temple period. Translated from the Hebrew into English by the renowned scholar Anson F. Rainey, this book has been revised and expanded to include over 220 inscriptions. They originate from kingdoms on both sides of the River Jordan: Judah and Israel, Philistia, Edom, Ammon, and Moab. The inscriptions from Judah and Israel are in Hebrew, while the others are written in languages close enough to make them accessible to any reader of Hebrew. This book contains a photograph and/or facsimile of each inscription, with transcriptions in both pointed and unpointed Hebrew, as well as English translation and commentary. Every item, or group of items, is preceded by introductory remarks and followed by translations, interpretations and references. A new appendix on the Aramaic Tel Dan inscription is included in Echoes from the Past, along with a glossary of proper names and indices.

New Inscriptions and Seals Relating to the Biblical World
New Inscriptions and Seals Relating to the Biblical World

Author: Meir Lubetski

Publisher: Society of Biblical Lit

Published: 2012-09-11

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1589835573

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This volume continues the tradition of New Seals and Inscriptions, Hebrew, Idumean and Cuneiform (Sheffield Phoenix, 2007) by featuring analyses by eminent scholars of some of the archaeological treasures from Dr. Shlomo Moussaieff’s outstanding collection. These contributions signal fresh approaches to the study of ancient artifacts and underscore the role of archaeological evidence in reconstructing the legacy of antiquity, especially that of the biblical period. The contributors are Kathleen Abraham, Chaim Cohen, Robert Deutsch, Claire Gottlieb, Martin Heide, Richard S. Hess, W. G. Lambert†, André Lemaire, Meir Lubetski, Matthew Morgenstern, Alan Millard, Lawrence J. Mykytiuk, and Peter van der Veen.

Understanding Roman Inscriptions
Understanding Roman Inscriptions

Author: Lawrence Keppie

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-09-11

Total Pages: 159

ISBN-13: 1134746164

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Lawrence Keppie's book offers the non-specialist a comprehensive and enjoyable guide to undestanding the texts of Roman inscriptions, as well as explaining the numerous different contexts in which they were produced. Every area of Roman life is covered, including: * the emperor * temples and altars to the gods * imperial administration * gravestones and tomb monuments * local government and society * the army and the frontiers * Christianity * trade, commerce and the economy * the later Roman Empire. For each inscription cited, the book provides the original Latin, an English translation and a commentary on the piece's significance. Illustrated with more than 80 photos and drawings, this is the ideal introduction to the most important source for the history and organisation of the Roman Empire.

Divine Aggression in Psalms and Inscriptions
Divine Aggression in Psalms and Inscriptions

Author: Collin Cornell

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-10-15

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1108842674

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Compares psalms and inscriptions to determine whether the aggression of the biblical God against his king and country was unique.

Pastoral Inscriptions
Pastoral Inscriptions

Author: Brian W Breed

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2013-10-16

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 1849668086

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Virgil's "Eclogues" represent the introduction of a new genre, pastoral, to Latin literature. Generic markers of pastoral in the "Eclogues" include not only the representation of the singing and speaking of shepherd characters, but also the learned density of the text itself. Here, Brian W. Breed examines the tension between representations of orality in Virgil's pastoral world and the intense textuality of his pastoral poetry. The book argues that separation between speakers and their language in the "Eclogues" is not merely pastoral preciosity. Rather, it shows how Virgil uses representations of orality as the point of comparison for measuring both the capacity and the limitations of the "Eclogues" as a written text that will be encountered by reading audiences. The importance of genre is considered both in terms of how pastoral might be defined for the particular literary-historical moment in which Virgil was writing and in light of the subsequent European pastoral tradition.

The Monumental Inscriptions from Early Islamic Iran and Transoxiana
The Monumental Inscriptions from Early Islamic Iran and Transoxiana

Author: Sheila Blair

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 1991-11-01

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 900466081X

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Inscriptions on buildings are a distinctive feature of Islamic architecture, and this book studies the 79 surviving monumental inscriptions in the Iranian world from the first five centuries of the Muslim era (A.D. 622-1106), the period in which all the major trends of monumental epigraphy in the area were set. These foundation, commemorative, and funerary texts come from the region between Iraq and Soviet Central Asia. Written primarily in Arabic, they embellished architectural monuments and furnishings whose nature implies the construction of major buildings. An extended introduction discusses such general topics as titulature, patronage, and stylistic development. Each text is then presented individually with photographs, drawings, transcriptions, translations and an extensive commentary, which presents the inscription in its larger palaeographic and historical contexts.

Material Inscriptions
Material Inscriptions

Author: Andrzej Warminski

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2016-06-30

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 0748681248

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This book focuses on the practice and pedagogical value of rhetorical reading. Its readings follow an itinerary from poetic texts (such as those by Wordsworth and Keats) through theoretical or philosophical texts (by Descartes and Nietzsche) to narrative

The Priestly Blessing in Inscription and Scripture
The Priestly Blessing in Inscription and Scripture

Author: Jeremy Daniel Smoak

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 0199399972

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Jeremy Smoak presents a synthesis of recent discoveries bearing upon the early history and function of the biblical priestly blessing of Numbers 6:24-26. The book gives special focus to the importance of the discovery of the blessing on two silver amulets from Jerusalem dating to the late Iron Age and several other Iron Age inscriptions containing parallels to the blessing. The analysis of the inscriptions provides a new way to approach the meaning and significance of the instructions for the blessing in the biblical book of Numbers.