Toward the Image of Tammuz and Other Essays on Mesopotamian History and Culture
Toward the Image of Tammuz and Other Essays on Mesopotamian History and Culture

Author: Thorkild Jacobsen

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2008-05-01

Total Pages: 521

ISBN-13: 1556359527

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In this volume, William L. Moran has collected seventeen of Jacobsen's widely scattered essays. Dealing with religion, history, culture, government, economics, and grammar, these pieces are representative of all aspects of Jacobsen's work, but stress his studies in history and religion, the fields in which he made his most important contributions to our knowledge of Mesopotamian culture and the origins of Western civilization. Moran has also included a bibliography of and a lexical index to Jacobsen's writings.

The Early History of God
The Early History of God

Author: Mark S. Smith

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 2002-08-03

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9780802839725

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There is still much disagreement over the origins and development of Israelite religion. Mark Smith sets himself the task of reconstructing the cult of Yahweh, the most important deity in Israel's early religion, and tracing the transformation of that deity into the sole god - the development of monotheism.

Riches Hidden in Secret Places
Riches Hidden in Secret Places

Author: Thorkild Jacobsen

Publisher: Eisenbrauns

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 1575060612

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Providing a scholar's salute to a teacher, colleague, and friend, the contributors of this new volume honor the memory of Thorkild Jacobsen with essays on Mesopotamian history, culture, literature, and religion. Contributors include: Tzvi Abusch, John Huehnergard, Bendt Alster, Jeremy Black, Miguel Civil, Jerrold S. Cooper, M. J. Geller, Stephen A. Geller, Samuel Greengus, William W. Hallo, Wolfgang Heimpel, Jacob Klein, W. G. Lambert, Jack M. Sasson, Ake W. Sjoberg, Piotr Steinkeller, H. L. J. Vanstiphout, and Claus Wilcke.

Scripture in Context
Scripture in Context

Author: Carl D. Evans

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 1980-01-01

Total Pages: 343

ISBN-13: 0915138433

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This book includes historical and literary studies arising from a seminar on Biblical History in the Near Eastern Setting sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The seminar director, William W. Hallo of Yale University, has contributed the introductory essay on the comparative method. Other essays address biblical topics in the patriarchal narratives, prophetic literature, historical literature, and apocalyptic. The topics are investigated against the background of Near Eastern itineraries, chronicles, mythological texts, prophecies, and other relevant contextual literature.

Under Every Green Tree
Under Every Green Tree

Author: Susan Ackerman

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-07-17

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 9004369945

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"By focusing on the forms of religious expression which the sixth-century prophets condemn, we can begin to apprehend the diversity which characterized exilic religion. Moreover, by recognizing the polemical nature of the prophetic critiques and by resolving to read these critiques without prophetic prejudice and instead with a non-judgmental eye, we can place ourselves in a position to re-evaluate the traditional descriptions of the sixth-century cult. Our task, then, is to read anew; our aim is to judge afresh. With this goal in mind, we turn our attention to the major prophetic texts which will comprise our study: Jeremiah 7 and 44, Ezekiel 8, Isaiah 57, and Isaiah 65." - From the Introduction

The Royal Dynasties in Ancient Israel
The Royal Dynasties in Ancient Israel

Author: Tomoo Ishida

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2013-08-26

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 3110853760

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The series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZAW) covers all areas of research into the Old Testament, focusing on the Hebrew Bible, its early and later forms in Ancient Judaism, as well as its branching into many neighboring cultures of the Ancient Near East and the Greco-Roman world.

Shelley's Goddess
Shelley's Goddess

Author: Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 0195073843

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This book addresses the significance of the mother-infant relationship in Percy Bysshe Shelley's poetry and life, with Shelley as as the focus for a study of the rich historical and theoretical issues relevant to motherhood in the Romantic period. (Poetry)