Solving Riddles and Untying Knots
Solving Riddles and Untying Knots

Author: Jonas Carl Greenfield

Publisher: Eisenbrauns

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 716

ISBN-13: 9780931464935

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Jonas Greenfield was one of the foremost epigraphers and biblical scholars of this generation. This volume, dedicated to Professor Greenfield by his students, colleagues, and friends, reflects the broad spectrum of academic interests he pursued: Bible, Qumran, epigraphy, and Semitics.

Ancient Ammon
Ancient Ammon

Author: MacDonald

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2023-11-13

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 9004667881

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A state-of-the-art presentation on a people/nation of Transjordan known to readers of the Bible as a neighbor, and often an enemy, of first millennium B.C. Israel. Topics covered in the book's ten chapters include a review of archaeological research in Ammon (R.W. Younker); the emergence of the Ammonites (R.W. Younker); Ammonite territory and sites (B. MacDonald); Ammonite "monumental" and domestic architecture (M. Najjar and P.M.M. Daviau respectively), as well as burial customs and practices (K. Yassine); the ceramic traditions of Central Transjordan (G. London); Ammonite texts and language (W. E. Aufrecht); the religion of the Ammonites (W.E. Aufrecht); and the Ammonites in the late Iron Age and the Persian period (L.G. Herr). Figures and Tables accompany each chapter. In addition, the publication includes an "Excursus" on the salient features of Iron Age tribal kingdoms (O. LaBianca). Each chapter of Ancient Ammon includes extensive reference material. The publication is fully indexed.

Cult of Molek
Cult of Molek

Author: George C. Heider

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 1987-03-01

Total Pages: 465

ISBN-13: 0567578895

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Both scholars and popular writers have long been fascinated with the cult of Molek in the Old Testament. Writers from John Milton to Charles Dickens have been tantalized by the awful rite of sacrifice. Heider's volume evaluates the significance of the Molek cult with regard to the biblical, archaeological, and literary evidence. He begins with a broad history of scholarship on Molek from the seventeenth century onward, paying special attention to the contributions of Otto Eissfeldt and Moshe Weinfeld. He also surveys the literary evidence-in particular the Eblaite, Amorite, Ugaritic, Akkadian, and Phoenician evidence. He also examines the archaeological evidence from the Mesopotamian region. The book concludes with a detailed look at the relevant biblical texts, with a detailed look at Leviticus 18 and 20, Genesis 22, and various passages in Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the Minor Prophets.

Identifying Biblical Persons in Northwest Semitic Inscriptions of 1200-539 B.C.E.
Identifying Biblical Persons in Northwest Semitic Inscriptions of 1200-539 B.C.E.

Author: Lawrence J. Mykytiuk

Publisher: Society of Biblical Lit

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 349

ISBN-13: 1589830628

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Mykytiuk (library science, Purdue U.) has developed an identification system to compare and verify names in the Hebrew Bible with those in Northwest Semitic inscriptions. Here, he describes that system in detail, showing the criteria he uses to establish the level of certainty of identification. Next he shows how he has applied this system in the c

Beyond Babel
Beyond Babel

Author: John Kaltner

Publisher: SBL Press

Published: 2019-01-28

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0884143848

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Beyond Babel provides a general introduction to and overview of the languages that are significant for the study of the Hebrew Bible and ancient Israel. Included are essays on biblical and inscriptional Hebrew, Akkadian, Northwest Semitic dialects (Ammonite, Edomite, and Moabite), Arabic, Aramaic, Egyptian, Hittite, Phoenician, postbiblical Hebrew, and Ugaritic. Each chapter in the volume shares a common format, including an overview of the language, a discussion of its significance for the Hebrew Bible, and a list of ancient sources and modern resources for further study of the language. A general introduction by John Huehnergard discusses the importance of the study of Near Eastern languages for biblical scholarship, helping to make the volume an ideal resource for persons beginning an in-depth study of the Hebrew Bible.

Hebrew Inscriptions
Hebrew Inscriptions

Author: Robert W. Suder

Publisher: Susquehanna University Press

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 9780941664011

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This book is designed as a resource handbook and bibliographic guide to the major Hebrew inscriptions dating from the period 1500 B.C.E. to 100 C.E. Hebrew, Ammonite, Moabite and Edomite monumental inscriptions, ostraca and seals are included. Illustrated.

The Storm-God in the Ancient Near East
The Storm-God in the Ancient Near East

Author: Alberto R. W. Green

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2003-06-23

Total Pages: 383

ISBN-13: 1575065371

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In this comprehensive study of a common deity found in the ancient Near East as well as many other cultures, Green brings together evidence from the worlds of myth, iconography, and literature in an attempt to arrive at a new synthesis regarding the place of the Storm-god. He finds that the Storm-god was the force primarily responsible for three major areas of human concern: (1) religious power because he was the ever-dominant environmental force upon which peoples depended for their very lives; (2) centralized political power; and (3) continuously evolving sociocultural processes, which typically were projected through the Storm-god’s attendants. Green traces these motifs through the Mesopotamian, Anatolian, Syrian, and Levantine regions; with regard to the latter, he argues that Yahweh of the Bible can be identified as a storm-god, though certain unique characteristics came to be associated with him: he was the Creator of all that is created and the self-existing god who needs no other.