The Assyrian Sacred Tree
Author: Mariana Giovino
Publisher: Saint-Paul
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9783525530283
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRevised thesis (doctoral) - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2004.
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Critical Approaches to Ancient Near Eastern Art
Author: Brian A. Brown
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2013-12-13
Total Pages: 842
ISBN-13: 1614510350
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume assembles more than 30 articles focusing on the visual, material, and environmental arts of the Ancient Near East. Specific case studies range temporally from the fourth millennium up to the Hellenistic period and geographically from Iran to the eastern Mediterranean. Contributions apply innovative theoretical and methodological approaches to archaeological evidence and critically examine the historiography of the discipline itself. Not intended to be comprehensive, the volume instead captures a cross-section of the field of Ancient Near Eastern art history as its stands in the second decade of the twenty-first century. The volume will be of value to scholars working in the Ancient Near East as well as others interested in newer art historical and anthropological approaches to visual culture.
Catalog of the Avery Memorial Architectural Library of Columbia University: Rodg - Sculpture I
Author: Avery Library
Publisher:
Published: 1968
Total Pages: 876
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Author: comte Eugène Goblet d'Alviella
Publisher:
Published: 1894
Total Pages: 330
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Author: Columbia University. Graduate Faculties
Publisher:
Published: 1964
Total Pages: 312
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKTrees and Kings
Author: William R. Osborne
Publisher:
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781575067506
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Old Testament prophets did not hesitate to use the rhetorical conventions accessible to them when delivering their sermons of salvation and judgment. One source of comparison used frequently in the prophets and widely throughout the ancient Near East is the image of a tree. In Trees and Kings, William Osborne evaluates the cultural and cognitive setting that potentially gave rise to this figurative tree imagery, drawing on both comparative study with ancient Near Eastern tree imagery and the cognitive-linguistic approach to metaphor theory. Osborne examines tree metaphors that appear in the texts of Israel's writing prophets, specifically Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel. He takes this material as largely reflective of the Israelite prophetic tradition from the 8th-6th centuries BC. Tree imagery in the Old Testament is certainly not limited to these prophetic books, and this study takes many of these texts into consideration in seeking to understand tree imagery in Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel better. The question is rarely asked, why do the prophets often defer to the metaphorical use of the tree? The goal of this study is to answer this important question by comparing and contrasting tree metaphors in much of the prophetic literature of the Old Testament with tree imagery and metaphors encountered from the ancient Near East.
Katachi ? Symmetry
Author: Tohru Ogawa
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 4431684077
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Japanese culture the concept of katachi has special significance, connoting relationships and connectedness. Although katachi cannot be translated precisely, it corresponds most closely to "form," "shape," "pattern," or "Gestalt". The contemporary study of katachi is interdisciplinary and encompasses virtually all scientific and aesthetic endeavors. Katachi research seeks to bridge the gap between cultures - whether the "two cultures" of C.P. Snow or the contrasting cultures of East and West. To help achieve this aim and to foster international cooperation, the interdisciplinary symposium titled "Katachi "U" Symmetry" was convened in Tsukuba, Japan, November 21 - 25, 1994. With many participants from differing backgrounds and cultural perspectives, the symposium was the culmination of 15 years of work in the field. Like-minded researchers and philosophers came together from two movements in interdisciplinary studies of katachi and symmetry that arose in the 1980s, one in Japan, the other in Hungary. The proceedings of the symposium will stimulate and provoke the interest of scientists and mathematicians, engineers and architects, philosophers and semioticians - indeed, all those with a lively sense of curiosity and a wide-ranging intellect.
An Abecedarian of Sacred Trees
Author: Mark G. Boyer
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2016-12-09
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1532604475
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEvery person has seen a tree and maybe planted or climbed one! In all world religions, various trees are considered sacred. Trees have the ability to help us reach wholeness if we learn their wisdom and integrate it into our lives. This abecedarian--a book whose contents are in alphabetical order--explores the spiritual growth that is possible by reflecting on the wisdom of woody plants, which help humans experience the divine. In these pages you can explore trees from Acacia to Zaqqum. For each of the forty entries, the author presents a text identifying the tree, a reflective study, a question for journaling or personal meditation, and a concluding prayer. Some trees you may have heard about, and some may be new to you. The spiritual life is enhanced by the trees that surround and share the earth with us while also disclosing the divine to us.
Art and Immortality in the Ancient Near East
Author: Mehmet-Ali Ataç
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-03-08
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 1107154952
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFar from being a Judeo-Christian invention, apocalyptic thought had its roots in the ancient Near East and was expressed in its art.
Saplings
Author: Noel Streatfeild
Publisher: Persephone Books
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781906462086
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