Wordplay in Ancient Near Eastern Texts, Paperback - Scott B. Noegel

Reducere. This book from Scott B. Noegel offers a comparative, in-depth study of "wordplay" in ancient Near Eastern texts. Noegel establishes comprehensive t...

Reducere. Essays on the use of word play in the literature of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Ugarit, and Israel, and Medieval Hebrew and Arabic literature; incl...

Reducere. About the Contributor(s): Daniel I. Block is the Gunther H. Knoedler Professor of Old Testament at Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois. He is the au...

Reducere. James Pritchard's classic anthologies of the ancient Near East have introduced generations of readers to texts essential for understanding the peop...

Reducere. 'The Queen of Heaven' is a step-by-step guide to the symbolism of the so-called 'fertility religions' of the antique worlds. With over 150 illustra...

A collection of essays that encompass the two principal approaches to the history of ancient Near Eastern studies: descriptive historiography and i...

Reducere. If you're looking for a captivating collection of Mesopotamian myths, then keep reading...The civilizations that grew up in the Tigris and Euphrate...

Reducere. Sixty-six colleagues, friends, and former students of Edward L. Greenstein present essays honoring him upon his retirement. Throughout Greenstein's...

Reducere. Sixty-six colleagues, friends, and former students of Edward L. Greenstein present essays honoring him upon his retirement. Throughout Greenstein's...

Reducere. Many of the architects of rock and roll in the 1950s, including Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Little Richard, were Southerners who were roote...

Reducere. Contents by chapter: What was Leviathan? Was Behemoth a Dinosaur? King James' Unicorns Making Sense of Isaiah's Flying Serpents Does Genesis 1: 1 D...

This volume deals with the exegesis of the Hebrew Bible. Articles are arranged according to Book, chapter, and verse in ninety-six sections with in...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Professor Cyril (University College Stockholm, Sweden.) HovorunNumber of pages: 896Publication date:...

DescriptionLeading evangelical scholar John Walton surveys the cultural context of the ancient Near East, bringing insight to the interpretation of...

Reducere. Presents the history of the Exploded Planet hypothesis. Rejecting naturalist and materialist assumptions of catastrophism forwarded by other resear...

Reducere. DescriptionThis pioneering work that first appeared in 1972 in German was the first to compare the conceptual world of a biblical book with ancient...

Pilgrimage and Household in the Ancient Near East - Joy McCorriston

Cataphracts were the most heavily armoured shock cavalry on the ancient battlefield, predating the knights of Western Europe by over 1000 years.

This volume explores glass composition and production from the mid-second to mid-first millennia BC, the first thousand years of glass-making. Mult...

Music in Religious Cults of the Ancient Near East presents the first extended discussion of the relationship between music and cultic worship in an...

Reducere. This book surveys the cities of the Ancient Near East, Egypt, and the Greek and Roman worlds, with a focus on their physical appearance, on urban f...

Reducere. "Dying and Rising Gods"--a detailed critique of the scholarly consensus Tammuz, Osiris, Baal, and Adonis are well-known from J.G. Frazer's Golden B...

This volume features a group of select peer-reviewed papers by an international group of authors, both younger and senior academics and researchers...

Reducere. Despite being condensed into neat identities of the Near East and Greece, these two titles cover a wide-ranging period of time, peoples, lands, and...

A concise history of warfare between Ancient Middle Eastern cultures in the age of the Old Testament using archaeology and evidence from the Bible....

The ancient Near East is known as the "cradle of civilization"--and for good reason. Mesopotamia, Syria, and Anatolia were home to an extraordinari...

This book is about the origins of agriculture and plant domestication that occurred in the Neolithic Near East 10, 500 years ago. It is directed no...

Reducere. 210If you want to discover the captivating history of the ancient Middle East, then keep reading...Two captivating manuscripts in one book: Ancient...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the ancient Middle East, then keep reading...Two captivating manuscripts in one book: Ancient Ne...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the ancient Near East, then keep reading...Where did the first signs of civilization appear in t...

Miracles, signs of divine presence and intervention, have been esteemed by Christians, especially Catholic Christians, as central to religious beli...

Reducere. Offering an expansive view of the ancient Mediterranean world, Gods, Heroes, and Monsters: A Sourcebook of Greek, Roman, and Near Eastern Myths in ...

Reducere. In this study, Michael Hundley explores the diverse deities of ancient Near Eastern and biblical literature, from deified doors and diseases to the...

Reducere. Showing that Mormonism is a genuine restoration of Primitive Christianity. To demonstrate to Latter Day Saints that "" Mormonism"" is what it exact...

Reducere. One of the world's foremost experts on the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Qumran community that produced them provides an authoritative new English trans...

Reducere. With hymns, stories, meditations, and activities for each day as well as suggestions for the whole season, Celebrating the Twelve Days of Christmas...

"Originally published in Italian as Antico Oriente 1988, 2011, Gius. Laterza & Figli."

Reducere. A Canadian in the Soviet Red Army In 1941, Canadian-born Maurice Bury was drafted into the Soviet Red Army--just in time to be thrown into the figh...